< The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

MOVIE | 1h 29m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 6.6 (943)

Drama, Romance | 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. He is from then on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

• Director: Albert Lewin
• Writer: W. Somerset Maugham
• Writer: Albert Lewin
• George Sanders (36) - Charles Strickland
• Herbert Marshall (52) - Geoffrey Wolfe
• Doris Dudley (25) - Blanche Stroeve
• Eric Blore (55) - Capt. Sandy Nichols
• Albert Bassermann (75) - Dr. Coutras
• Florence Bates (54) - Tiare Johnson
• Steven Geray (38) - Dirk Stroeve
• Elena Verdugo (17) - Ata
• Fernando Alvarado (9) - Native Boy at Wedding
• Gino Corrado (49) - Man Seated in Paris Dive
• Willie Fung (46) - Tiare's Cook
• Gibson Gowland (65) - Party Guest
• Robert Greig (63) - Maitland - Wolfe's Valet
• Rondo Hatton (48) - The Leper
• Kenneth Hunter (60) - Col. Fred MacAndrew
• Molly Lamont (32) - Amy Strickland
• Mike Mazurki (35) - Tough Bill
• Gerta Rozan (30) - French Floozie
• Irene Tedrow (35) - Mrs. MacAndrew
• Heather Thatcher (46) - Rose Waterford