Tuesday | September 26, 2006 9:00 pm

King of Chinatown

Screening on Film

Directed by Nick Grinde.
With Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn.
US, 1939, 16mm, black & white, 60 min.
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This gangster film is also a tribute to Dr. Margaret “Mom” Chung, the first American-born Chinese female physician and founder of the first clinic in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Based on Chung, Wong’s character is a surgeon who saves a mobster’s life.

PRECEDED BY

Hollywood on Parade

Directed by Lewis Lewyn.
With Anna May Wong, Eddie Kane.
1933, 35mm, black & white, 20 min.
Print source: Library of Congress

Wong recites a Chinese poem in this revue-style short.

September 26 – November 15, 2006

Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola