La Boh%C3%A8me (1926 film)

La Bohme is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the opera La bohme by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star as illfated lovers.

Their next door neighbor, Mimi Lillian Gish, an orphaned, friendless embroiderer, has the same problem. Bernard is attracted to her, but when she does not respond to his overture, he issues the same threat. She takes her meager belongings to the municipal pawnshop, but does not receive enough money to pay the rent. On her way back, she is nearly run over deliberately by the carriage of the rich, idle aristocrat Vicomte Paul Roy DArcy. She has to fend off his advances.When Marcel is invited to dinner by his girlfriend and downstairs neighbor, Musette Rene Adore, he persuades her to allow Schaunard to join them. Then the musician gets her to include Colline, who asks for Rodolphe. Rodolphe misses his cue to join the festivities in order to become acquainted with Mimi. Seeing how cold she is, he invites her to warm herself in his apartment. Later, after she vacates her room, Rodolphe entices her to share in the food Musette has provided. Then Vicomte Paul comes over. She thinks he wants some embroidery done, not realizing he has baser motives. Rodolphe does and immediately becomes jealous of the aristocrat. In any case, Mimi is able to pay her rent and stay. ........

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