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Number One Son with the seat of his pants on fire in Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, reportedly in part under inspiration from the career of Chang Apana. Chan is the hero of a number of books and dozens of movies. At first a sergeant (but later promoted) in the Honolulu Police Department, he and his wife have fourteen children (the oldest of which is colloquially known as "Number One Son") and live in a house on Punchbowl Hill. He is a large man but moves gracefully. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ...
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Number One Sons butt is on fire, in an exciting scene from Charlie Chan in Monte Carlo, 1938 This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ...
Number One Sons butt is on fire, in an exciting scene from Charlie Chan in Monte Carlo, 1938 This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ...
Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ...
A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ...
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Earl Derr Biggers (August 24, 1884 - April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known through adaptations of his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. ...
Chang Apana (December 26, 1871-1933) was a Chinese-Hawaiian police officer in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the officially-acknowledged inspiration for the fictional Asian detective character, Charlie Chan, first introduced in 1925 in the mystery novel, House without a Key. Ah Ping Chang was born in Waipio, Oahu, Hawaii. ...
Police Chief Lee Donohue on the left honors Police Chaplain Andrew Kikuta during a June 28, 2000 ceremony at police headquarters. ...
The Charlie Chan Novels Charlie Chan appeared in six novels by Earl Derr Biggers, published from 1925 to 1932. Earl Derr Biggers (August 24, 1884 - April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known through adaptations of his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. ...
The House Without a Key is a novel that was written in 1925 by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Spoiler warning: Behind That Curtain (1928) is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Spoiler warning: Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Film Adaptations Pathe Studios produced The House without a Key in 1926 (with George Kuwa as Chan), and a year later Universal followed with The Chinese Parrot (with Sojin as Chan). These first two film adaptations of the Chan novels are now both lost. Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France. ...
Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
Lost film is a term used to describe any feature film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. ...
The film rights acquisition of the Chan novels by Fox Film Corporation was to prove enduringly popular and profitable for the studio. The series at Fox began with Behind That Curtain in 1929, effectively a Somerset Maugham-like melodrama about love among the colonial classes that included E.L. Park in a very small supporting role as Chan. But the true breakthrough came with the next adaptation, 1931's Charlie Chan Carries On, this time with Warner Oland as Chan. Oland starred in a further fifteen Chan movies, up to the time of his death, after which the mantle passed to Sidney Toler. By this time, Fox had merged and been succeeded by 20th Century Fox, which produced eleven more Charlie Chan films through 1942. Toler then bought the screen rights himself, and arranged a new series for Monogram Pictures in 1944. Monogram made another eleven Chan films starring Toler and then six starring Roland Winters after Toler's death. The progression of Chan films from Oland to Toler (under the two incarnations of Fox), and especially to Monogram's films (whether with Toler or Winters), involved lower budgets and variable scripts, and generally less modern respect. The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the Independents; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office...
Spoiler warning: Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
Warner Oland (October 3, 1879 - August 6, 1938) was a Swedish actor most remembered for his role as Charlie Chan. ...
Sidney Toler (April 28, 1874-February 12, 1947) was an actor and writer. ...
Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...
Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...
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Roland Winters (1904-1989) was an American actor who portrayed Charlie Chan in six films. ...
Radio On radio, Charlie Chan was heard in different series on four networks (Blue, NBC. ABC, MBS) between the years 1932 and 1948. Walter Connolly initially portrayed Chan as part of Esso Oil's Five Star Theater, which serialized adaptations of Biggers novels. The Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) was an American radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999. ...
Walter Connolly (born April 8, 1887 - died May 28, 1940) was an American actor who made almost fifty films between 1914 and 1939. ...
Ed Begley had the title role in NBC's The Adventures of Charlie Chan with Leon Janney as Number One Son. Radio Life magazine described Begley's Chan as "a good radio match for Sidney Toler's beloved film enactment.
Comics, games and spinoffs A Charlie Chan comic strip drawn by Alfred Andriola was syndicated from 1938 to 1942. There was also The Great Charlie Chan Detective Mystery Game (1937) - a board game, and the Charlie Chan Card Game (1939). This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ...
Alfred J. Andriola (May 24, 1912-March 29, 1983) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Kerry Drake, for which he won a Reuben Award in 1970. ...
Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A board game is a game played with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a board (a premarked surface, usually specific to that game). ...
// For the game on The Price Is Right, see Card Game (pricing game). ...
Over the years several Charlie Chan comic books have also been published first by Prize Comics (5 issues, 1948), which later moved to Charlton Comics (4 issues, 1955). DC Comics published a title (The New Adventures of Charlie Chan) that tied in with the new TV show and lasted 6 issues in 1958. Later, Dell Comics did the title for 2 issues in 1965. In the 1970s, Gold Key Comics published a short-lived series of Chan comics based directly on the Hanna-Barbera animated series mentioned below. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...
Crestwood Publications, also known as Prize Comics and Feature Publications, was a comic book publisher from the 1940s through the 1960s, though most of their titles were published in the 1950s. ...
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DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ...
Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publications, which got its start in pulp magazines. ...
Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing cteated for comic books distributed to newstands. ...
Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...
In 1957-1958, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, starring J. Carroll Naish in the title role, were made independently for TV syndication in a series of 39 episodes, by Television Programs of America. The New Adventures of Charlie Chan was a syndicated television crime drama series made in 1957. ...
J. Carrol Naish or Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1897 – January 24, 1973) was an American actor born in New York City, New York. ...
Television Programs of America, Inc (TPA) was a New York-based US television production company in the 1950s. ...
 The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, an animated series made in the 1970s by Hanna-Barbera Productions and starring former Chan co-star Keye Luke, was noteworthy because it was the only occasion on which Charlie Chan has been played by an actor of Chinese descent. (Two Charlie Chan films made in the 1920s had starred Japanese actors; and several of the Chan sons had been played by Chinese American actors in the later movies, including Keye Luke as the eldest son, Sen Yung (later Victor Sen Young) as son #2, Benson Fong as son #3, and Keye Luke's brother, Edwin Luke, as son #4.) http://www. ...
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan title card The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan is an American Saturday morning animated cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1972, based upon the Charlie Chan movie series of the 1930s and 40s. ...
An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...
Keye Luke ( Cantonese: Lo Sek Lam Pinyin: Lù XÃlÃn) (June 18, 1904–January 12, 1991) was a Chinese actor. ...
A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ...
Victor Sen Yung (æšæ£®, pinyin: Yáng SÄ“n) (born October 18, 1915 in San Francisco, California, died November 9, 1980 in North Hollywood, California) was an American character actor. ...
Benson Fong (鄺炳雄 pinyin: Kuà ng BÇngxióng; born October 10, 1916; died August 1, 1987) was a Chinese-American character actor. ...
Two offbeat Chan films appeared to little fanfare years after the main canon. The Return of Charlie Chan in 1973 was a made-for-TV film starring Ross Martin. It had a challenging plot, but was otherwise unengaging. Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981, was a theatrical feature starring Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Apparently intended as a satire, it was not seen as a comic success, although critics noted its visual appeal. “Telefilm†redirects here. ...
Ross Martin (March 22, 1920 - July 3, 1981) is an American actor most known for playing Artemus Gordon in the western TV series The Wild Wild West. ...
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (IPA: ; April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian, German and Ethiopian ancestry. ...
Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931) is a Golden Globe-winning American television and film actress, perhaps best known for her role as the sultry Sergeant Leann (not Suzanne) Pepper Anderson in the 1970s crime drama Police Woman. ...
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and internationally known American actress. ...
The character of Chan was parodied in the 1976 comedy film Murder by Death, featuring Peter Sellers made-up as "Sidney Wang" in elaborate Chinese costume and using heavily affected speech. Murder by Death is a 1976 ensemble comedy movie, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore. ...
Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his three roles in Dr. Strangelove and as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther films. ...
A new Charlie Chan movie is being planned, with Lucy Liu handling the title part, the plot being described as "The granddaughter of a renowned detective makes a name for herself in the world of crime-busting." Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: 劉玉玲 Liú YùlÃng, born December 2, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ...
Controversy and criticism The pre-1950 film character exhibited many honorable traits: intelligent, stalwart, kind, responsible, and heroic in the pursuit of usually white villains who were able to outwit the police or government establishments which hired him. During this time as well as later, the films have come under criticism from at least one group concerned with Asian-Americans, on the grounds that Chan was played only by white actors in makeup rather than by any Chinese/Asian performer. Thus, the portrayal of Chan by white actors has been likened to blackface films and has been referred to as yellowface. This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co. ...
Katherine Hepburn in Dragon Seed Yellowface is the practice in cinema, theatre, and television where East Asian characters are portrayed by white actors, often while wearing heavy makeup in order to approximate Asian or Oriental facial characteristics. ...
Many feel that the Chan films of the 1930s and 1940s both created and perpetuated Asian racial stereotypes. Critics make the objection that the negative caricature of Charlie Chan has at least as much of an effect on the audience as do his positive traits. The thesis that the Chan pictures are "demeaning to the race" was argued against, however, by none other than Keye Luke, himself an Asian-American who appeared in many of the Chan films: "Demeaning to the race? My God! You've got a Chinese hero!" (For more of Luke's observations about the series, see Ken Hanke's book Charlie Chan at the Movies.) Keye Luke ( Cantonese: Lo Sek Lam Pinyin: Lù XÃlÃn) (June 18, 1904–January 12, 1991) was a Chinese actor. ...
The portrayal of the black sidekicks and servants of the Chan family in some of the movies has also been controversial. These characters, however, were a popular and recurring fixture in the Chan films, particularly the character of Birmingham Brown, portrayed by the inventive comedian Mantan Moreland. Mantan Moreland (3 September 1902 - 28 September 1973) was a comic and actor most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. ...
In 2003, the Fox Movie Channel discontinued the Fox Chan films, soon after beginning restoration for special cablecasting. After a lengthy delay, Fox finally began releasing these restored versions on DVD in 2006, beginning with volume one (Charlie Chan in London, Charlie Chan in Paris, Charlie Chan in Egypt, and Charlie Chan in Shanghai) on June 30. (The first six Monogram productions, all starring Sidney Toler, were released by MGM in 2004, and found a ready audience despite their humble reputations.) The films, when broadcast on the Fox Movie Channel, were followed by roundtable discussions by prominent Asian-Americans in the entertainment industry, led by George Takei. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fox Movie Channel, formerly fXM, is a television channel that concentrates on showing movies uncut and commercial-free. ...
Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...
George Hosato Takei (IPA: ) (born April 20, 1937) is an American actor known for his role in the TV series Star Trek, in which he played the helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the USS Enterprise. ...
In 1993, author Jessica Hagedorn edited a compilation of Asian American literature, titled "Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction." The appellation was a contemporary response to pervasive Asian-American stereotypes. Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born (and raised) in Manila, Philippines in 1949. ...
Cultural references - The song "Bad Detective," recorded by the R&B group the Coasters in 1964 and the New York Dolls in 1974, is about Charlie Chan and his assistant Birmingham. "Searchin'," a Leiber/Stoller song recorded in 1957 by the Coasters, makes reference to Chan and other fictional detectives such as Sam Spade, Bulldog Drummond, Boston Blackie and Sherlock Holmes.
- In the Beastie Boys hit 1986 song "Brass Monkey" Adrock spits the lyric "Adrock gets nice with Charlie Chan".
- Jazz Saxophonist Charlie Parker used "Charlie Chan" as his pseudonym when recording in 1953 with Miles Davis on the album Collectors' Items and on the all-star album Jazz at Massey Hall, in honor of his wife Chan Parker.
- Mr. White (played by Harvey Keitel) in the film Reservoir Dogs expresses his annoyance at Joe Cabot's reciting of names from his old address book: "Toby? Toby Wong. Toby Wong? Toby Wong. Toby Chung? Fucking Charlie Chan."
- The 2001 Capitol Films movie entitled Gosford Park makes many references to the Charlie Chan films, with one of the supporting characters being a fictionalized producer (a Morris Weissman instead of the actual producer, John Stone) responsible for producing the films. The fictionalized producer in the film has come to this shooting party to research for his next film, Charlie Chan in London.
- In Terry Pratchett's Discworld book Witches Abroad, the witch, Nanny Ogg calls over a Genuan waiter with "Oi, Charlie Chan!"
- The Grateful Dead song "US Blues" contains the lyric, "Shake the hand that shook the hand of P. T. Barnum and Charlie Chan."
- Fred Allen often parodied the Chan character on his radio show with his detective "Won Long Pan".
- In the film version of Agatha Christies The Mirror Crack'd the movie director Jason Rudd, played by Rock Hudson, tells Scotland Yard inspector Dermott Craddock, nephew of Miss Marple "You've been seeing too many Charlie Chan movies, Inspector!" trying to brush him off.
- In 1985 there was a scene performed by Don Muraco and Mr. Fuji on the pro wrestling program Tuesday Night Titans (TNT) hosted by Vince McMahon, whereby Fuji, Muraco and Mel Phillps parody this character, calling him "Fuji Chan."
- In the ZZ Top's song, "Burger Man", on the 1990 album "Recycler", there is a reference to Charlie Chan in the last stanza.
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Mantan Moreland (3 September 1902 - 28 September 1973) was a comic and actor most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. ...
Jerry Leiber (born April 25, 1933) and Mike Stoller (born March 13, 1933) are among the most influential songwriters and music producers in post-World War II popular music. ...
Poster of the 1941 Warner Brothers film version of The Maltese Falcon, directed by John Huston Sam Spade was the leading character in the novel and movie The Maltese Falcon (1931). ...
Bulldog Drummond is a British fictional character created by Sapper, a pseudonym of H. C. McNeile (1888-1937), in imitation of the hard boiled noir-style detectives appearing in contemporary American fiction. ...
Boston Blackie was a character introduced by Jack Boyle who was featured in a series of mystery films during the silent movie era and in the 1940s. ...
A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ...
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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician widely considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. ...
Jazz at Massey Hall is a jazz album featuring a live performance by The Quintet on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto. ...
Chan Parker (born Chan Richardson) is best known as the common-law wife of jazz legend Charlie Parker. ...
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor from New York City. ...
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Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde. ...
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He has eyes like Venetian blinds and a tongue like an adder — radio/television critic John Crosby about humourist Fred Allen, portrayed here by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. ...
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By Earl Derr Biggers The House Without a Key is a novel that was written in 1925 by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Spoiler warning: Behind That Curtain (1928) is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Spoiler warning: Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Michael Collins is the most well-known pseudonym of award-winning novelist Dennis Lynds, (b. ...
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The first novel, by Michael Avallone, one of dozens of TV tie-ins he would write. ...
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Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is a highly-regarded and very prolific American writer of detective fiction. ...
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Filmography
Early Chan films // August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. ...
Lost film is a term used to describe any feature film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. ...
See also: 1926 in film 1927 1928 in film 1920s in film years in film film // Events January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres. ...
Lost film is a term used to describe any feature film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. ...
See also: 1928 in film 1929 1930 in film 1920s in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events The days of the silent film were numbered. ...
Warner Oland (October 3, 1879 - August 6, 1938) was a Swedish actor most remembered for his role as Charlie Chan. ...
// Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff Ingagi, starring Sir Hubert Winstead Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore City Lights starring Charles Chaplin Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring Fredric March Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ Best Actor: Fredric...
Spoiler warning: Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. ...
// Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff Ingagi, starring Sir Hubert Winstead Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore City Lights starring Charles Chaplin Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring Fredric March Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ Best Actor: Fredric...
Lost film is a term used to describe any feature film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. ...
See also: 1931 in film 1932 1933 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events Shirley Temples film career begins Disney released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film. ...
Lost film is a term used to describe any feature film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. ...
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Lost film is a term used to describe any feature film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. ...
See also: 1933 in film 1934 1935 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finally purchased the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum for $40,000. ...
Lost film is a term used to describe any feature film that no longer exists in either studio archives or private collections. ...
Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde. ...
See also: 1933 in film 1934 1935 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finally purchased the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum for $40,000. ...
See also: 1934 in film 1935 1936 in film 1930s in film years in film film Events Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). ...
See also: 1934 in film 1935 1936 in film 1930s in film years in film film Events Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). ...
See also: 1934 in film 1935 1936 in film 1930s in film years in film film Events Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). ...
See also: 1935 in film 1936 1937 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top grossing films in North America Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great...
See also: 1935 in film 1936 1937 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top grossing films in North America Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great...
See also: 1935 in film 1936 1937 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top grossing films in North America Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great...
See also: 1935 in film 1936 1937 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top grossing films in North America Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great...
See also: 1936 in film 1937 category:1937 films 1938 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US. May 7 - Shall We Dance premieres in the US. Top grossing films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Conquest Damaged Lives...
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is a 1937 movie directed by Eugene Forde. ...
See also: 1937 in film 1937 1939 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of Dorothy in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. ...
- Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
- Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
- Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
- City in Darkness (1939)
- Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
- Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
- Murder Over New York (1940)
- Dead Men Tell (1941)
- Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
- Castle in the Desert (1942)
- Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)
- The Chinese Cat (1944)
- Meeting at Midnight (1944, AKA: Black Magic)
- The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
- The Red Dragon (1945)
- The Scarlet Clue (1945)
- The Jade Mask (1945)
- Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
- Dangerous Money (1946)
- Dark Alibi (1946)
- The Trap (1946, AKA: Murder at Malibu Beach)
Sidney Toler (April 28, 1874-February 12, 1947) was an actor and writer. ...
See also: 1937 in film 1937 1939 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of Dorothy in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. ...
The year 1939 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1939 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1939 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events. ...
See also: 1941 in film 1942 1943 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash when returning from a War Bond tour. ...
// July 20 - Since You Went Away is released. ...
// July 20 - Since You Went Away is released. ...
// July 20 - Since You Went Away is released. ...
// Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ...
// Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ...
// Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ...
// Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring ghost named Casper With Rossellinis Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins. ...
See also: 1945 in film 1946 1947 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Bells of St. ...
See also: 1945 in film 1946 1947 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Bells of St. ...
See also: 1945 in film 1946 1947 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Bells of St. ...
See also: 1945 in film 1946 1947 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Bells of St. ...
With Roland Winters - The Chinese Ring (1947)
- Docks of New Orleans (1948)
- Shanghai Chest (1948)
- The Golden Eye (1948)
- The Feathered Serpent (1948)
- The Sky Dragon (1949)
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. ...
See also: 1948 in film 1949 1950 in film 1940s in film 1950s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films North America Adams Rib Jolson Sings Again Pinky I Was a Male War Bride, The Snake Pit, Joan of Arc Academy Awards Best Picture: All the...
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (IPA: ; April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian, German and Ethiopian ancestry. ...
// January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. ...
Further reading Ken Hanke, Charlie Chan at the Movies (McFarland, 1989), ISBN 0786419210. Examination of the Charlie Chan feature films, with firsthand commentary by Keye Luke Keye Luke ( Cantonese: Lo Sek Lam Pinyin: Lù XÃlÃn) (June 18, 1904–January 12, 1991) was a Chinese actor. ...
Elaine H. Kim, Asian American Literature, an introduction to the writings and their social context, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982 (especially the chapter on Charlie Chan).
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is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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