Alexandre Dumas fils live with his father. There he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for the character Marguerite Gauthier in his romantic novel "La Dame aux camélias" ("The Lady of the Camellias"). Adapted into a play, it was titled "Camille" in English and became the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, "La traviata", Duplessis undergoing yet another name change, this time to Violetta Valéry. Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had great success with the play, which started his career as a dramatist. He was not only more renowned
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