Anna May Wong at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival

Anna May Wong in Pavement Butterfly. Photo: Elaine Mae Woo

As part of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, on March 18 the Castro Theatre will screen the 1929 silent Anglo-German drama Grossstadtschmetterling / Pavement Butterfly, directed by Richard Eichberg, and starring Anna May Wong as Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer who flees her show after a serious accident. She later becomes a society darling, but as to be expected, her past catches up with her in the form of a blackmailer.
According to Frako Loden’s write-up, "the collaboration between Chinese American legend Anna May Wong and German director Richard Eichberg, consisting of five films between 1928 and 1930, brought many firsts for the actress: her first [...]

by Andre Soares | February 15, 2007   
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