Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'anna may wong'.
Found 3 results
-
This article in Leonard Maltin's Indiewire was interesting in itself - a throwback to the days when vaudeville and pre-code movies comingled, a time when you could spend an entire day watching both. You'll recognize several of the names of stars who performed live on the new York and Brooklyn stages. Pre-code movies is a fascinating topic in itself - in the years before the Motion Picture Production Code was enforced, movies were not obscene or objectionable by today standards, but free to take bizarre plot twists which even today would be seen as immoral and promoting bad behavior - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood One of the stars was Anna May Wong, Throwback Thursday: Stanwyck, Crosby, Anna May Wong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_May_Wong Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words -
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/ep...roduction/1146/ "The 90-minute film illuminates a century of Chinese American cinematic history, from rare silent classics such as Marion Wong¡¯s The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916) to the contemporary critical and commercial success of Ang Lee¡¯s Brokeback Mountain (2005). Timed for broadcast during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, American Masters: Hollywood Chinese premieres nationally Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). The film features a treasure trove of clips, punctuated with personal accounts from the movie industry¡¯s most accomplished Chinese and Chinese American talent."
-
TCM Specials for the month of June There's a couple of good movies in there, so you might`want to check it out, but it's Hollywood flicks only
