In addition to numerous productions around the world, the stage play of Camille (aka La Dame aux Camelias) has had sixteen different productions on Broadway over the years. It first appeared on Broadway in 1853, and its most recent production was in 1935. Actresses that have played Marguerite on Broadway include Sarah Bernhardt and Lillian Gish.

The story of Camille has been filmed at least twenty times throughout numerous countries. The role of Marguerite has been played on screen by actresses including Sarah Bernhardt, Clara Kimball Young, Theda Bara, Norma Talmadge and Alla Nazimova in addition to Greta Garbo.

In 1981 a film called Lady of the Camelias told the real-life tale behind the story of Camille in which actress Isabelle Huppert portrays Marie Plessis, Alexandre Dumas, fils.' inspiration for Marguerite.

In director John Huston's big budget 1982 film version of the musical Annie, Daddy Warbucks takes Annie to Radio City Music Hall for a screening of Camille where scenes from the film are featured prominently.

In the 1921 silent film version of Camille legendary actor Rudolph Valentino portrays Marguerite's lover, Armand Duval.

Charles Ludlam, an actor and director who founded the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in New York in 1967, presented a loose adaptation of Camille in 1973 which was later revived in 1990 by his partner and successor Everett Quinton, who played the title character.

In 1984 Greta Scacchi and Colin Firth played doomed lovers Marguerite and Armand in a Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of Camille.

At least three ballets have been created from the story of Camille. La Dame aux Camelias premiered in 1978 featuring music by Frederic Chopin. Marguerite and Armand premiered in 1963, created for famed dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn. In 1990 a version called Camille was created by Veronica Paeper.

Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera La Traviata was based on Camille's original source material La Dame aux Camelias. Its first performance took place in Venice in 1853.

Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film musical Moulin Rouge! is at least partly based on the original story of La Dame aux Camelias, which inspired the opera La Traviata that influenced Luhrmann's colorful and inventive film.

by Andrea Passafiume