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Post by Andrea Doria on Jan 28, 2024 20:16:13 GMT
A perfect swine is about what I was thinking.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 20:16:34 GMT
Desertion with no money! Pretty terrible. I wonder when child support and alimony first started to be required by law. |
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 20:16:59 GMT
In real life, the wife had money...in fact, she had been supporting Gaugin when he chose a more bohemian lifestyle.
After he left the family, he did take mistresses...probably out of loneliness. But his wife never officially divorced him.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 20:19:31 GMT
Has anyone read the original story? I have not.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 28, 2024 20:20:40 GMT
"Men are so weak and woman are so unscrupulous."
I don't agree with it, but there is some harsh dialogue in this one.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 28, 2024 20:21:55 GMT
Has anyone read the original story? I have not.
I haven't. |
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 20:22:07 GMT
Due to the Hollywood production code, in this movie, the wife does divorce Strickland/Gaugin.
But the truth was that the wife did not ever divorce him, AND he married a Tahitian woman...so he knowingly became a bigamist.
The production code office was definitely not going to allow that to end up on screen.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 20:24:27 GMT
Doris Dudley, mother of Jackie Butch Henkins
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That kid surely had a unique look about him.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 20:24:58 GMT
Doris Dudley as Blanche Stroeve.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 20:26:38 GMT
Some good character actors in this production.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 20:28:54 GMT
"You disapprove of me, don't you?"
YES! YES WE DO!
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 20:29:13 GMT
Publicity photo with the main cast:
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 28, 2024 20:31:15 GMT
"Why should I care about the opinion of the crowd when I don't give a tuppence for the opinion of the individual" (Or something close to that)
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jan 28, 2024 20:32:01 GMT
"You disapprove of me, don't you?"
YES! YES WE DO! |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 28, 2024 20:33:03 GMT
Interesting that selling his art is beneath him.
From the wiki fact sheet-ish:
In 1887, Gauguin left France along with his friend, another young painter, Charles Laval. Gauguin was out of money and found work as a laborer on the French construction of the Panama Canal. During this time, Gauguin penned letters to his wife lamenting: "I have to dig… from five-thirty in the morning to six in the evening, under the tropical sun and rain," he wrote. "At night I am devoured by mosquitoes."
Meanwhile, Laval had been earning money by drawing portraits of canal officials, work which Gauguin detested since only portraits done in a lewd manner would sell
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