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 (film) parents (Carmen Scarpitta and Michel Galabru) to meet them. , "La Cage aux Folles" has remained the 10. foreign film released in the United States of America. The film was the second highest-grossing film of the year in France with 5,406,614 admissions. In Germany, it received 2.65 million admissions, making it was the 11th highest-grossing film of the year. The film received critical acclaim. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 100% rating based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The film was followed by two sequels: "La Cage aux Folles II" (1980), also