La Dame aux Camélias 1878 "Scribner's Monthly" reported that "not one other play by Dumas, "fils" has been received with favor out of France". The success of the play inspired Giuseppe Verdi to put the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera "La traviata", set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, is renamed Violetta Valéry. "La Dame aux Camélias" has been adapted for some 20 different motion pictures in numerous countries and in a wide variety of languages. The role of Marguerite Gautier has been played on screen by Sarah Bernhardt, María Félix, Clara Kimball
La Cage aux Folles II La Cage aux Folles II La Cage aux Folles II is a 1980 French comedy film and the sequel to 1979's "La Cage aux Folles". It is directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Michel Serrault as Albin, (stage name "ZaZa"), the female impersonator star of a gay night-club revue, and Ugo Tognazzi as Renato, his partner of over twenty years. A spy plants a capsule of microfilm on Albin and from then on spies and government agents pursue him. Albin and Renato travel to Italy to hide at Renato's mother's farm. At each point along the way we see the