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 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas