Camille

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Blackstone Audiobooks
presents

Frances Conroy • John Glover • Sam Gray • Nicholas Kepros • Sonja Lanzener • Brian Murray • Lois Nettleton • Paul Sparer • Jeremiah Sullivan • Susan Willis
in
The Hollywood Theater of the Ear
production of

Camille
(La Dame aux camellias)

by
Alexandre Dumas, fils

produced & directed by
Yuri Rasovsky

This production was made possible in part by
The National Endowment for the Humanities

Alexander Dumas fils published The Lady of the Camellias in 1848. He was a moralist, exposing the hypocrisies and vanities of the decadent fashionable society he called the demimonde. The Lady of the Camellias is the story of the grand passion of sheltered Armand Duval and Marguerite Gautier, a successful courtesan who is dying of tuberculosis. He based her on Marie Duplessis, a courtesan he loved for whom his rival was his own father. The play has been a favorite ever since its premiere. The film version with Gretta Garbo was called "Camille," and ever since that has been the name its been known by in America.

Lois Nettleton may be best recalled for guest appearances on top TV series: such as when she played the station manager with the hots for Lou Grant on an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (CBS), or Dorothy's lesbian friend who falls for Rose on an episode of "The Golden Girls" (NBC). Nettleton studied at the Goodman Theatre in her native Chicago and at the Actors Studio in New York. She won attention after starring on Broadway in "God and Kate Murphy" (1959), which led to her first feature film of significance, "Period of Adjustment" (1962), in which she was in a troubled marriage with Anthony Franciosa. Other notable film appearances include "Come Fly With Me" (1963),"Mail Order Bride" (1964) and "Dirty Dingus McGee" (1970). She spent a year (1988-89) opposite Carroll O'Connor on the CBS drama "In the Heat of the Night". Nettleton's work in TV long forms began with "Any Second Now" (ABC, 1969). Her subsequent TV movies and miniseries have included "Washington: Behind Closed Doors" and "Fear on Trial". From 1996 to February 1998, she had the recurring role of Virginia Benson, the adoptive mother of troublemaker Carly on the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital."