Wednesday | October 11, 2006 9:00 pm

Daughter of the Dragon

Screening on Film

Directed by Lloyd Corrigan.
With Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa.
US, 1931, 35mm, black & white, 70 min.

Impressed with her success abroad, Paramount gave Wong the lead in this thriller based on the pulp best-seller Daughter of Fu Manchu. As Princess Ling Moy, Wong must avenge the death of her father, Fu Manchu, who is the embodiment of negative Asian stereotypes. “The picture proves that white actors impersonating Orientals seemed more the Chinese type than did the two principal Oriental players,” sneered Variety, exemplifying the prevalent racism of the time. Restored 35mm print from UCLA Film and TV Archive.

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Print source: Library of Congress

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Archival print from the Library of Congress.

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