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...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...
Maugham's story is no rose, either. Sanders plays Strickland as well as Strickland can be played, but this unmotivated, anglicized Gauguin doesn't smell very sweet by this name or any other. He acts more like a beachcomber than an artist and the only glimpse you get of his masterpieces supports this conclusion. He is fascinatingly immoral and bitter, but without reason, and, from what the film shows, his painting is secondary to chess, absinthe, and seduction...
Author Maugham based his unfriendly fable about genius in the raw on the life of unfriendly Painter Paul Gauguin. Like Gauguin, Genius Charles Strickland (George Sanders) reaches his prime as an overdomesticated stockbroker. Like Gauguin, he abruptly quits all that for Paris, semistarvation and oil painting. He takes over the studio and the wife (Doris Dudley) of a piteous fellow painter (Steve Geray). Later he leaves the wife to suicide, and heads for Tahiti where he marries a sleek young native with a Mona Grable smile (Elena Verdugo), slaps out masterpieces by the gross, dies (lingeringly) of leprosy...
...Baltimore Museum by the No. 1 Cassatt expert, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, the show contained 156 of Mary Cassatt's finest oils, pastels, dry points, color prints and drawings, surrounded with side shows of letters, photographs and paintings by such famed Cassatt contemporaries as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir. For Mary Cassatt, who went to Europe in 1868 to study art, lived there the rest of her long life, an expatriate American, never got full recognition from either France...
Died. Emile Bernard, 73, one of the last of the French impressionist painters, intimate friend of Paul Gauguin, fellow student of Van Gogh, art critic; in Paris...