This footage is just bizarre! I'm told this was the very first sound recording Anna May Wong ever made; her first spoken words are in Cantonese, and I've always wondered what she was saying.
One of the parts of "Elstree Calling" (1930 - not 1939)Alfred Hitchcock was obliged by "the studio" to reshoot was this one, the burlesque of "The Taming of the Shrew", with Donald Calthrop. Hitchcock once said that Calthrop "could be compared with a Wurlitzer organ, which can give you everything from tremendous volume to the softest notes". Take a look at him as the oily villain of "Blackmail" (1929) and you'll see what Sir Alfred meant. What an actor!
This footage is just bizarre! I'm told this was the very first sound recording Anna May Wong ever made; her first spoken words are in Cantonese, and I've always wondered what she was saying.
bmiltonb 1 year ago
One of the parts of "Elstree Calling" (1930 - not 1939)Alfred Hitchcock was obliged by "the studio" to reshoot was this one, the burlesque of "The Taming of the Shrew", with Donald Calthrop. Hitchcock once said that Calthrop "could be compared with a Wurlitzer organ, which can give you everything from tremendous volume to the softest notes". Take a look at him as the oily villain of "Blackmail" (1929) and you'll see what Sir Alfred meant. What an actor!
mendoncacorreia 4 years ago
Nice to see Anna May Wong in this movie!
blutey 4 years ago