Camille

Lore & Background

Fictional entities: a Power Rangers Jungle Fury character; Camille Wallaby, a character in Alfred Hedgehog; a character from League of Legends video game voiced by Emily O'Brien; Princess Camille, a character in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. Films: Camille (1912 film), a short American film directed by Jay Hunt based on Dumas' novel La Dame aux camélias; Camille (1915 film), an American silent film adapted by Frances Marion, directed by Albert Capellani, starring Clara Kimball Young as Camille and Paul Capellani as Armand; Camille (1917 film), an American silent film adapted by Adrian Johnson, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Theda Bara as Camille; Camille (1921 film), an American silent film starring Alla Nazimova as Camille and Rudolph Valentino as Armand; Camille (1926 short film), an American short film by Ralph Barton, compiled from his home movies, loosely based on La Dame aux Camélias; Camille (1927 film), an American silent film adapted by Fred de Gresac and company, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Norma Talmadge as Camille and Gilbert Roland as Armand; Camille (1936 film), an Academy Award nominated American film directed by George Cukor, starring Greta Garbo as Marguerite and Robert Taylor as Armand; Camille (1984 film), a television film adapted by Blanche Hanalis, directed by Desmond Davis, starring Greta Scacchi as Camille and Colin Firth as Armand; Camille 2000, an Italian film adapted by Michael DeForrest, directed by Radley Metzger, starring Danièle Gaubert as Marguerite and Nino Castelnuovo as Armand; Camille (2008 film), a 2008 comedy drama film starring Sienna Miller and James Franco; La signora delle camelie, a 1915 Italian silent film adapted by Renzo Chiosso, directed by Gustavo Serena, starring Francesca Bertini as Camille. Music: Camille (album), an unreleased project by the musician Prince; La traviata, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. Novels: La Dame aux Camélias, a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, commonly known in English as Camille; Camille (Lemaitre novel), a 2012 novel by Pierre Lemaitre; Camille (Matilda Heron Translation), an English translation of La Dame aux Camélias by Matilda Heron; Camille (Charles Ludlam play), an American play by Charles Ludlam. People: Camille (given name), a male or female given name; Camille (French singer), full name Camille Dalmais, French singer and songwriter; Camille (Belgian singer)

In Their Own Story

The tape machine is still warm. The red light on the console blinks its slow, patient pulse. Outside, the Minnesota September rain taps the Paisley Park windows in a rhythm that almost—almost—locks into the groove on the desk. A half-empty coffee cup sits beside a stack of lyric sheets, the top one smudged where a thumb pressed too hard on a syllable. The title track is playing, looped, the bassline walking in that lazy, confident stride Prince loved. Somewhere in the house, a guitar is being tuned, the E string dropping a half-step, finding its pocket. The session is over. The tape is stopped. But the hum in the room—the low, electric hum of a space that has been making music for thirty years—doesn't stop. It just gets quieter. It just waits for the next person to press record. It waits, and waits, and the rain keeps time.

Reader's Guide

This entry covers various uses of the name Camille, including fictional characters, films, music, novels, people, and other references. Note that the album by Prince is listed as an unreleased project.

Did You Know?

• The 2008 film Camille is a comedy drama starring Sienna Miller and James Franco.
• Camille (album) by Prince is an unreleased project, not a posthumously released final studio album.