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

Synopsis 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 like the athletics he performed in most of his other...

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

Synopsis 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 the trip take more than three days. The British Army...

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

Synopsis 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 with Valentine Wilmot, the club's owner. One night, as Mabel...

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

Synopsis 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 while driving Williams's car. Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving...

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

Synopsis 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 blackmail, guilt and suspicion are the unanticipated results.

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

Synopsis 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 is approached by a member's widow. The atmospheric doings involve...

5.2

30 votes

5.2

30 votes

Daughter of Shanghai

1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Anna May Wong · Charles Bickford · Buster Crabbe · Cecil Cunningham

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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. Soon the two have fallen in love, and Carver promises...

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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

Synopsis 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 adventure to adventure while carrying passengers and cargo anywhere 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

Synopsis 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 help out.

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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

Synopsis 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 a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket,...

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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

Synopsis 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 the story of Takia (Gray), a white girl brought up...

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Song

1928 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Eichberg

Cast Anna May Wong · Heinrich George · Mary Kid · Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Synopsis 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 of two intrusive sailors.

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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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 out of the drug business, but she is afraid of...

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Mr. Wu

1927 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Lon Chaney · Louise Dresser · Renée Adorée · Holmes Herbert

Synopsis 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. Nang Ping is to be married to a man of...

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The Chinese Parrot

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Paul Leni

Cast Marian Nixon · Sojin · Florence Turner · Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis 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 the expensive pearls given her by her father, Madden declares...

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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

Synopsis 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 love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due...

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