Piccadilly (with Anna May Wong biographer, Katie Gee Salisbury)

Showings

Grand Illusion Cinema Sun, Oct 6 7:00 PM
Film Info
Release Year:1929
Genre:Drama
Crime
Production Country:United Kingdom
Original Language:No Language
Format:DCP
Cast/Crew Info
Director:E.A. Dupont
Cast:Gilda Gray
Anna May Wong
Jameson Thomas
Charles Laughton
Cyril Ritchard

Description

95th anniversary! Featuring an in-person Q&A with Katie Gee Salisbury, author of the new biography,  Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong.

 

Anna May Wong stars in E.A. Dupont's PICCADILLY, the mesmerizing silent masterpiece about a maid who overcomes her station to become the toast of London. As his nightclub suffers to a convoluted love triangle among the staff, Wilmot (Jameson Thomas) has a chance encounter with scullery maid Shosho (Wong) and enlists her talents as both a beauty and a dancer to reignite the club's spark. This rediscovered classic also stars Gilda Gray as the enchanting dancer Mabel, who shines alongside Wong, and Alfred Junge's astonishing set design looks better than ever thanks to brilliantly restored footage by the British Film Institute.