Rex Cherryman

Armand Duval, un jeune bourgeois, tombe amoureux de Marguerite Gautier, une courtisane parisienne atteinte de tuberculose qui porte régulièrement des camélias de couleurs à son buste. Alors qu'Armand a finalement réussi à convaincre Marguerite de quitter sa vie de débauche et de partir vivre à la campagne avec lui, son père oblige Marguerite à rompre avec son fils, afin de préserver le mariage de sa fille. De retour à Paris, vivant désormais dans le secret son amour pour Armand, Marguerite Gautier meurt finalement dans son lit, seule et ruinée.

When good-natured James Henry MacTavish comes into an inheritance, he travels East to claim it with the determination that he will "scatter sunshine" along the way. But MacTavish almost immediately lands himself in hot water.

Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane is disgusted to find her husband Robert McNaughton victimized by a tubercular cough and so banishes him and her young daughter to a sanitarium in Colorado. Years pass, finding Jane still estranged from her family. On the opening night of her new play, Jane finds herself upstaged and outperformed by Gloria Cromwell, a rising young actress, who, unknown to Jane, is her abandoned daughter. Returning home, Jane is haunted by visions of her husband and child and begins to sob. Looking up from her pillow, she is startled to see her husband with Gloria.