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Daughter of Shanghai

Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
still from Daughter of Shanghai

Daughter of Shanghai  (1937)

(Robert Florey, US 1937, 62 min., 35mm)

Following her disappointment at not even being considered for the major role of O-Lan in MGM’s adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth (the role went to Luise Rainer, who won the Academy Award for her performance), Anna May Wong continued to search for significant roles. She found some depth in the role of Lan Yang Lin in Daughter of Shanghai. She plays a gallery owner-turned-detective hunting down a European smuggler alongside alongside government agent Kim Lee, played by Korean-American actor Philip Ahn. Wong gets to play a woman of action while going undercover as a dancer.

 

Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$7 members
$10 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

$5 17 and under

Advance tickets encouraged.

Patrons must show proof of COVID vaccination (regardless of age), photo ID and wear masks. 

Tickets no longer for sale

About This Series

Asian Americans in Hollywood

Last summer the Dryden Theatre presented the series “In Solidarity: Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Directors,” which focused on directors of Asian and Pacific Islander descent who told stories through their own lens. But Asian Americans were working in film since the silent era, both in front of and behind the camera. This series will highlight three of the biggest Asian American contributors from the first seven decades of cinema: actress Anna May Wong, actor Sessue Hayakawa, and cinematographer (and George Eastman Award honoree) James Wong Howe.

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