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The Moon and Sixpence is a 1942 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel of the same name, which was in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. Dimitri Tiomkin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Two versions were filmed.
The Moon and Sixpence: Directed by Albert Lewin. With George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore. Loosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has always wanted to do.
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire ...
Charles Strickland is a middle-class, apparently happily married man living and working in London. On what seems to be a spur of the moment decision, he leaves his wife and his life behind and flees to Paris where he hopes to pursue his interest in painting.
Overview. Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty. Albert Lewin. Director, Writer. W. Somerset Maugham.
Moon And Sixpence, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) She'll Manage British writer Wolfe (Herbert Marshall) arrives in Paris chasing stockbroker Strickland (George Sanders), who's abandoned his family back in London, in Albert Lewin's The Moon And Sixpence, 1942, from the W. Somerset Maugham novel.
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