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I am now going to drink tea and read a short story by Somerset Maugham, for whom I think the designation "first rate second rate writer" was originally coined. Then I'll go to bed!

Image: W. Somerset Maugham, photo by Paul Thompson -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

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Been listening to the well performed youtube audiobooks of #ShortStories that are collected in #WSomersetMaugham's #TheCasuarinaTree (1926).

Four stories listened to so far, not quite in order, and it looks clear that the violence of, and corrosive effects of, #Colonialism was common knowledge in Britain.

Before the Party
P. & O.
The Outstation
The Force of Circumstance
The Yellow Streak
The Letter

A novel #TheHouseOfDoors and #TheLetter are both based on a real event.

The Painted Veil, a 1934 Greta Garbo romantic melodrama. Based on a Somerset Maugham story. The introduction of the Production Code earlier in 1934 results in characters whose behaviours make no sense but it looks good and Garbo is terrific.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-painted-veil-1934.html

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The 1929 version of The Letter might not be as good as the 1940 version and it doesn't have Bette Davis but it is pre-code so it's much more salacious and sexually honest and Jeanne Eagels' performance is outrageous. It's worth a look.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-letter-1929.html

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http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/2023/05/mubi-monday-of-human-bondage-1934.html

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Lewis Milestone’s tropical melodrama Rain (1932), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. The story of a power struggle between a prostitute (Joan Crawford) and a preacher man (Walter Huston). One of the essential pre-code movies.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/rain-1932-blu-ray-review.html

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Joan Crawford in Rain (1932). Her career-best performance and Rain is one of the three or four best of all the pre-code movies. A battle of wills between a prostitute and a preacher (played by Walter Huston).

Based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham.

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Bette Davis gives her career best performance in William Wyler's steamy overheated noirish tropical melodrama The Letter (1940). Based on a story by Somerset Maugham. Great movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/01/letter-1940.html

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