They travel to Walter's medical post in Shanghai, where he is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases. He proposes she accepts ("only to get as far away from mother as possible"), and the couple have a honeymoon in Venice. On a brief trip to London in the early 1920s, earnest and bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane is dazzled by Kitty Garstin, a London socialite. This is the third film adaptation of the Maugham book, following a 1934 film starring Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall and a 1957 version called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran.
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