Greta Garbo received her third Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for her fine work in Camille and was named Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The role of villainous Baron de Varville, played by Henry Daniell, was originally intended for actor John Barrymore.

Before filming began on Camille Greta Garbo publicly called co-star Robert Taylor "a fine actor -- and handsome, too." Fifty years later she described him as "so beautiful -- and so dumb."

Famed fashion designer Adrian's costumes for Camille were reportedly inspired by Constantin Guys' drawings of Marie Duplessis, the real-life inspiration for the character of Marguerite.

According to Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo often wore an old pair of bedroom slippers under her expensive costumes while shooting in order to be more comfortable.

Garbo's elaborate costumes were so heavy and burdensome that the star was often close to fainting under the hot studio lights. To help, a special ice box wind machine was built in order to keep her cool.

Actor Lionel Barrymore, who played Armand's father, had a difficult time filming his role due to acute arthritis. "If there was ever anyone who made us suffer vicariously it was [Barrymore]," recalled screenwriter Frances Marion, "for every time we saw him hunched over in his wheelchair we felt his pain. Arthritis raced through his entire body in tormenting rivulets of fire."

According to Frances Marion, there was an audible gasp in the audience at the Academy Awards when Greta Garbo lost the Best Actress award to Luise Rainer (for The Good Earth, 1937) since everyone expected Garbo to win.

Memorable Quotes from CAMILLE

"Of course, I order too many flowers, hats and too many everything. But I want them."
-- Marguerite (Greta Garbo)

"Well, you know Prudence. She's a woman full of secrets. Even changing her corset is a great mystery."
--Marguerite, to Olympe (Lenore Ulric)

"The Baron de Varville is on his way to this box and I'm going to stay and meet him."
"But he's coming to meet me."
-- Olympe and Marguerite

"Unfortunately, I like him, too."
"Why unfortunately?"
"Because his eyes have made love to me all evening."
"That's a lie. He barely glanced at you. I never took my glasses from his face except for an instant to let him see mine."
"Perhaps that was the instant he smiled at me."
--Marguerite and Olympe

"I'll tell you something else. If you don't stop being so easygoing with your money, you'll land in the gutter before you're through or back on the farm where you came from milking cows and cleaning out henhouses."
"Cows and chickens make better friends than I've ever met in Paris."
--Olympe and Marguerite

"I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know."
-- Marguerite, to Armand (Robert Taylor)

"It's a great mistake for any woman to have a heart bigger than her purse."
--Prudence (Laura Hope Crews)

"I always look well when I'm near death."
--Marguerite

"Would you care to come to a party I'm giving tomorrow night? It's my birthday."
"Aren't you afraid you're not strong enough yet? To give parties?"
"Oh, I'm afraid of nothing except being bored."
--Marguerite and Armand

"What a child you are."
"Your hand is so hot."
"Is that why you put tears in it? To cool it?"
"I know I don't mean anything to you. I don't count. But someone ought to look after you. And I could do it, if you'd let me."
"Too much wine has made you sentimental."
--Marguerite and Armand

"No one has ever loved you as I love you."
"That may be true, but what can I do about it?"
--Armand and Marguerite

"You should go away and not see me anymore. But don't go away in anger. Why don't you laugh at yourself a little as I laugh at myself, and come and talk to me once in awhile in a friendly way?"
"That's too much...and not enough."
--Marguerite and Armand

"You play beautifully."
"You lie beautifully."
"Thank you. That's more than I deserve."
"It's not half as much as you deserve, my dear...[doorbell rings] I'll see who it is.
"No. I'll tell you. But you won't believe me."
"No, I won't. Who is it?"
"Well, I might say there is someone at the wrong door, or the great romance of my life."
--Marguerite and Baron de Varville (Henry Daniell)

"You know, once I had a little dog, and he always looked sad when I was sad, and I loved him so. And when your tears fell on my hand, I loved you too all at once."
--Marguerite, to Armand

"How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do."
--Marguerite, to Armand

"Are you going to spoil a day like this by being jealous?"
--Marguerite, to Armand

"Never be jealous again. Never doubt that I love you more than the world. More than myself."
--Marguerite, to Armand

"Let me love you. Let me live for you. Don't let me ask any more from heaven than that. God might get angry."
--Marguerite, to Armand

"Of course, you don't think me worthy of your son. You're right, I'm not."
"No. No woman is worthy of a man's love who's willing to let him ruin himself for her, as you're doing.

"Without Armand, I'm doomed.
"With him, you're both doomed.
--Marguerite and Armand's Father (Lionel Barrymore)

"How could you do what you did? I'll tell you. Because your heart is a thing that can be bought and sold. Yes, I know, you gave it to me for a whole summer, but when it came to a choice, the jewels and carriages he could give you were worth more than my love, my devotion, my life."
"Yes, that's true. I'm a completely worthless woman, and no man should risk his life for me."
--Armand and Marguerite

"I doubled my fortune tonight at his expense. And when that's gone, I'll work, I'll beg, I'll borrow, I'll steal. But I must be with you always. Always."
--Armand, to Marguerite

"Nanine, get the doctor, quickly!"
"The doctor? If you can't make me live, how can he?"
--Armand and Marguerite

"No, no. Don't say such things, Marguerite. You'll live. You must live."
"Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there'll be no stain on our love."
--Armand and Marguerite

Compiled by Andrea Passafiume