Cast: Anna May Wong
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Anna May Wong. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Thief of Bagdad
1924 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Julanne Johnston · Anna May Wong · Sojin
Plot Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of Baghdad, his movements are dance-like -- nothing...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
Shanghai Express
1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Josef von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Clive Brook · Warner Oland · Anna May Wong
Plot Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Piccadilly
1929 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ewald André Dupont
Cast Gilda Gray · Anna May Wong · Jameson Thomas · Charles Laughton
Plot The star attraction of the Piccadilly Club is the dancing team of Mabel and Vic. Victor is infatuated with Mabel, but she rejects his advances, since she is in love...
6.9
94 votes
6.9
94 votes
Impact
1949 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Brian Donlevy · Ella Raines · Charles Coburn · Helen Walker
Plot No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition...
6.6
285 votes
6.6
285 votes
Portrait in Black
1960 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Lana Turner · Anthony Quinn · Richard Basehart · Sandra Dee
Plot Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are lovers who murder Lana's cruel, but wealthy husband, played by Lloyd Nolan. Since Quinn is her husband's physician, the murder is easily committed, but...
6.3
284 votes
6.3
284 votes
A Study in Scarlet
1933 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Reginald Owen · Anna May Wong · Warburton Gamble · June Clyde
Plot In London, a secret society collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. When society members start dropping like flies, Sherlock Holmes...
5.2
30 votes
5.2
30 votes
Elstree Calling
1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andre Charlot · Jack Hulbert · Paul Murray · Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Teddy Brown · Helen Burnell · Donald Calthrop · Bobbie Comber
4.2
58 votes
4.2
58 votes
Daughter of Shanghai
1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Anna May Wong · Charles Bickford · Buster Crabbe · Cecil Cunningham
Plot Chinese-American woman tries to expose illegal alien smuggling ring.
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The Toll of the Sea
1922 · Movie · 54 min. · United States
Direction Chester M. Franklin
Cast Anna May Wong · Kenneth Harlan · Beatrice Bentley · Priscilla Moran
Plot When young Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water near the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American visiting China....
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Adventures in Paradise (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction James Michener · Felix E. Feist · Joseph Lejtes · Robert Florey
Cast Gardner McKay · James Holden · Guy Stockwell · Lani Kai
Plot TV Series. 91 episodes. Adam Troy was an American Korean War veteran who stayed in the Pacific after the war. As captain of the schooner "Tiki III", Troy drifted from...
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Anna May Wong
Plot Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to...
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Limehouse Blues
1934 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast George Raft · Jean Parker · Anna May Wong · Kent Taylor
Plot Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs...
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The Devil Dancer
1927 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast Gilda Gray · Clive Brook · Anna May Wong · Serge Temoff
Plot Hip-swinging danseuse Gilda Gray, the girl who created the late-'20s dance craze "The Shimmy," plays the provocatively underdressed title character in The Devil Dancer. Written by Alice Duer Miller, this...
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Song
1928 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany
Direction Richard Eichberg
Cast Anna May Wong · Heinrich George · Mary Kid · Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Plot After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front...
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City Butterfly
1929 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany
Direction Richard Eichberg
Cast Anna May Wong · Alexander Granach · Nien Soen Ling · Elwood Fleet Bostwick
Plot Wong plays a dancer in the French Riviera who, after her act takes a deadly turn, finds refuge in the arms of a young painter.
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Drifting
1923 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Priscilla Dean · Matt Moore · Wallace Beery · J. Farrell MacDonald
Plot In Shanghai, an American girl smuggling opium is put under surveillance by an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she determines to get...
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Bombs Over Burma
1942 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Joseph H. Lewis
Cast Anna May Wong · Leslie Denison · Nedrick Young · Dan Seymour
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Mr. Wu
1927 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction William Nigh
Cast Lon Chaney · Louise Dresser · Renée Adorée · Holmes Herbert
Plot Raised by his grandfather to adhere to the ancient laws of China, Mandarin Wu is a strict authoritarian. However, he is a doting father to his beautiful daughter Nang Ping....
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The Chinese Parrot
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Paul Leni
Cast Marian Nixon · Sojin · Florence Turner · Hobart Bosworth
Plot Sally Randall, daughter of a wealthy Hawaiian planter, marries Phillimore, the man of her father's choice, even though she has sworn her love to Philip Madden; tearing from her throat...
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Java Head
1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thorold Dickinson · J. Walter Ruben
Cast Anna May Wong · Elizabeth Allan · John Loder · Edmund Gwenn
Plot The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in...
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