Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview

"You who are so young—where can you have learned all you know about women like me?"

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.