![]() ![]() That view is in full force when dealing with Lamont and with Doris Dudley who plays a married woman who leaves her husband Steven Geray to take up with Sanders in Paris. They make too many demands on the creative man, fascinated though they might be by him. Maugham was a gay man, but there are certain gay men who truly do not like women on most levels. Somerget Maugham's view on human relations and the creative soul are once again given an airing in The Moon And Sixpence. In fact Lamont prevails on Marshall to go to Paris to see what brought this about. So when one fine day he up and leaves his wife Molly Lamont to go live the Bohemian life as a painter in Paris it shocks everybody. When Marshall first knows Sanders he's the soul of Victorian rectitude, no one suspecting what is beneath the surface. ![]() ![]() Marshall is his erudite best and Sanders once again is a cad. Somerset Maugham in fact if not name in The Moon And Sixpence as he narrates the story of how his life intersected with that of George Sanders a man who left middle class respectability to do his thing with painting, first in Paris and then the South Seas. ![]()
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