After more than 20 film roles, the role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers in the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), a film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim.

Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle.

Gauguin's life inspired W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence.

Liza of Lambeth ( 1897 ) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London.

* The main character, Philip Carey, in W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage, has a club foot, a central theme in the work.

Other than re-releases of his films, Power wasn ’ t seen on screen again after his entry into the Marines until 1946, when he co-starred with Gene Tierney in The Razor's Edge, an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name.

Żubrówka is featured in W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge.

By the 1930s, though his public success remained considerable, critical opinion saw Walpole as outdated, and his reputation took a blow from a malicious caricature in Somerset Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale in which the character Alroy Kear, a superficial novelist of more ruthless ambition than literary talent, was widely taken to be based on Walpole.

The title is a reference to W. Somerset Maugham's retelling of an old story, which appears as an epigraph for the novel: A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions.

* Moon and Sixpence in Portland, OR honors Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name.

* Olive ( film ), adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, featuring Martin Potter ( actor )

The term gained wide currency outside China after the publication of Somerset Maugham's 1922 short story " The Taipan " and James Clavell's 1966 novel Tai-Pan.

Ashenden is the narrator of Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale.

* Maugham's The Razor's Edge

In W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, the author mentions Parnell and O ' Shea: " Passion is destructive.

Landor's " I Strove with None " is also quoted in Somerset Maugham's " The Razor's Edge.

In W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, the narrator uses the gospel of Matthew to introduce his own ending in which Jesus accepts death on the cross " for greater love hath no man " while the devil laughs in glee, knowing full well that man will reject this redemption and commit evil in spite of, if not because of this great sacrifice.

Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( 1965 / 66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley ), W. Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick ( 1970 ), Relative Values ( Noël Coward revival, 1973 ), and the thrillers Spider's Web ( 1955, written for her by Agatha Christie ), Signpost to Murder ( 1962 ), and Double Edge ( 1975 ).

The 1964 remake of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage was a failure, as was The Outrage ( 1964 ), director Martin Ritt's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon, despite the presence of Paul Newman.

In 1968 Lowe was invited by Laurence Olivier to act at the National Theatre at the Old Vic and appeared in Somerset Maugham's Home and Beauty in 1968 and later The Tempest in 1974 with John Gielgud.

Somerset Maugham's opinion was that " a Martini should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the molecules lie sensuously on top of one another ".

It was Losey who first showed Robin Maugham's novelette The Servant to Bogarde in 1954.

Such was Maugham's lack of political experience that Chamberlain and he had never met before.

However by the time this occurred in early 1939, Chamberlain was sufficiently impressed with Maugham's work to offer to retain him, whilst allowing Inskip the opportunity to defer choosing between becoming Lord Chancellor and remaining in the House of Commons with the possibility of becoming Prime Minister ( a choice that Hailsham had always regretted ) and intended to make a change at the next general election, which was expected to take place that year.

The debut episode was W. Somerset Maugham's The Letter.

At Cambridge he appeared as Elizabeth in Somerset Maugham's The Circle in 1929 and his performance was praised by George Rylands.

Maugham's daughter Liza married in 1936, and the London house Maugham decorated for her was among her best work.

Eventually, after some years of separation, she became pregnant with Maugham's only child, Mary Elizabeth, who was known as Liza.

The interior of the house was redecorated in a restrained classical 1930s style, drawing heavily on Hollywood film style of the 1930s and Syrie Maugham's " all white room " as influences.

Maugham's daughter was awarded approximately $ 1, 400, 000 in damages, comprising $ 280, 000 in a cash settlement to compensate her for paintings originally willed to her, along with royalties to some of his books, and the controlling interest in his French villa .< ref >

The screenplay for Maugham's Of Human Bondage was unacceptable because the prostitute, Mildred Rogers ( played by Davis ), whom the club-footed medical student, Philip Carey ( played by Howard ), falls in love with, comes down with syphilis.

He guest-starred in The Avengers in the 1968 episode " They Keep Killing Steed ", and on the BBC in Somerset Maugham's " The Door of Opportunity " in which his co-star was Marianne Faithfull.

Bill Kenwright's production of Somerset Maugham's The Letter played through summer 2007, before a short hiatus where Chita Rivera was due to grace the London stage once more, but was forced to postpone.

He got the idea for the title Appointment in Samarra when Dorothy Parker showed him the story in Maugham's play, Sheppey.

They appeared together in the UK in The School for Scandal at the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End and on the subsequent British Council tour of Europe in 1983 – 84 and in W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Other appearances on Broadway included: W. Somerset Maugham's The Letter ( 1927 ), Sidney Howard's The Alien Corn ( 1933 ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1934 ), Maxwell Anderson's The Wingless Victory ( 1936 ), S. N. Behrman's No Time for Comedy ( 1939 ), a Tony Award-winning Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra ( 1947 ), and a revival of Maugham's The Constant Wife ( 1951 ).

" ( Copyright 1926 ), Maugham's character Gallagher, an Irishman who had lived in the Federated Malay States for 25 years, orders the drink.

* recorded a series of W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden stories for BBC radio.

Philip's clubfoot causes him endless self-consciousness and embarrassment, echoing Maugham's struggles with his stutter and, as his biographer Ted Morgan notes, his homosexuality.

Maugham's restrained prose allows him to explore the tensions and passions without appearing melodramatic.

His many other stage performances included Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, 12 Angry Men, The Devil's Advocate, Maugham's The Sacred Flame.