A Trip to Chinatown (film)
Appearance
A Trip to Chinatown | |
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Directed by | Robert P. Kerr |
Written by | Beatrice Van |
Based on | A Trip to Chinatown by Charles Hale Hoyt |
Produced by | William Fox |
Starring | Margaret Livingston Earle Foxe J. Farrell MacDonald |
Cinematography | Barney McGill |
Distributed by | Fox Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes; 6 reels (5,594 feet) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
A Trip to Chinatown is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and starring Margaret Livingston. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell. The movie was scripted by Beatrice Van from Charles Hale Hoyt's hit 1891 Broadway musical of the same name and directed by Robert P. Kerr.[1][2]
Livingston played the "Woman from the City" the following year in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the rival to Farrell's future screen partner Janet Gaynor.
Cast
- Margaret Livingston as Alicia Cuyer
- Earle Foxe as Welland Strong
- J. Farrell MacDonald as Benjamin Strong
- Anna May Wong as Ohati
- Harry Woods as Norman Blood
- Marie Astaire as Rose Blood
- Gladys McConnell as Marion Haste
- Charles Farrell as Gayne Wilder
- Hazel Howell as Henrietta Lott
- Wilson Benge as Slavin
- George Kuwa as Tulung
Preservation
With no prints of A Trip to Chinatown located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.[4]
See also
References
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: A Trip to Chinatown
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: A Trip to Chinatown (1926) at silentera.com
- ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: A Trip to Chinatown
- ^ A Trip to Chinatown at Lost Film Files: Lost Fox Film films - 1926 Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
External links
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