"CAMILLE."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 5

"CAMILLE."

Garbo's Finest Role.

The coupling of Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor for "Camille" proves to have been a stroke of screen genius. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with George Cukor directing and a brilliant cast in support, the Dumas love story is an ideal vehicle for i.he two most glamorous stars of the modern screen. The picture opens on Friday at the St. James Theatre. The distinctive direction which Cukor demonstrated in his recent work on "Romeo and Juliet," has been equalled in "Camille." Added to this, the characterisation of Marguerite affords Garbo the most perfect role of her striking career, and Taylor, as Armand, the lover, is superb. The brilliant cast includes Lionel Barrymore. Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell, Lenore Ulric, Laura Hope Crews, Rex O'Malley, Russell Hardie. and E. E. Clive, all of whom give performances of stellar calibre. Garbo, as Dumas's immortal "Lady of the Camellias," performs her finest role, perhaps because she is so essentially lovely and mysterious that her own personality blends with that of the exotic Parisian woman who sacrificed luxury and even life itself for love.;