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“Anna May Wong Visits Shanghai, China” (5/1/1936)
Stock footage shot for, but never used in, Hearst Metrotone news of Anna May Wong arriving on a Dollar Line boat, surrounded by a group of cameramen and newspapermen. She enters Park Hotel, and visits Star Motion Picture Studios and a flower market.
35mm print from the UCLA Film & Television Archive. B/w, silent, 8 min.
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
35mm nitrate print from the UCLA Film & Television Archive!
Created as a star vehicle for Anna May Wong, the Los Angeles-born daughter of a Chinese immigrant family and the first Asian American female star in Hollywood, Paramount teamed her up with sympathetic French émigré director Robert Florey and high school friend/on-screen love interest Philip Ahn, as the first Asian G-man depicted on screen. Together, they elevate this B-movie thriller to another level with two Asian American lead characters, in an era of accepted yellowface where white actors often played Asian characters, and as a fresh departure, a plot centered around the villainy of its white characters.
35mm nitrate, b/w, 62 min. Director: Robert Florey. Based on a story by Garnett Weston. Screenwriter: Gladys Unger, Garnett Weston. Cinematographer: Charles Schoenbaum. Editor: Ellsworth Hoagland. Cast: Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham.
