Interview With Somerset Maugham (1946)

Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unknown / unclear. Cuts from newsreel 46/85 - Somerset Maugham interviewed. M/S of novelist Somerset Maugham sitting at a desk and writing. He looks very dapper in a pinstriped suit. Shots of the Pathe interviewer John Parsons sitting at the table with Maugham and asking how long Maugham is staying here. He talks of staying until December and then resuming his normal life on the Riviera. Parsons holds a Pathe microphone. Maugham talks of being too busy to write, seeing friends and attending to business. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930),