Hollywood Party / Daughter of Shanghai - Harvard Film Archive

Tuesday | November 7, 2006 9:00 pm

Hollywood Party

Directed by Roy Rowland

Daughter of Shanghai

Directed by Robert Florey

Screening on Film

Hollywood Party

Directed by Roy Rowland.
With Clark Gable, Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown.
US, 1937, 35mm, black & white, 21 min.

This rare Technicolor footage of Wong shows the actress modeling fashions acquired during her recent trip to China.

Daughter of Shanghai

Directed by Robert Florey.
With Philip Ahn, Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Anthony Quinn, Anna May Wong.
US, 1937, 35mm, black & white, 61 min.
Print source: Library of Congress

This action-packed thriller is about a woman trying to avenge her murdered father and destroy a gang of immigrant smugglers. It is unusual for its time, featuring two top-billed Asian co-stars (Wong and Ahn).

September 26 – November 15, 2006

Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 10

To a Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100