PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
PICCADILLY
Sunday, March 20
5:20♪
(1929, E.A. Dupont) Steamy Anna May Wong quadrangle melodrama, written by literary titan Arnold Bennett and directed by German silent master Dupont; with relationship à l’infini among Wong, dancer Gilda Gray (inventor of the “Shimmy”), Cyril Ritchard (TV’s Captain Hook 25 years later) and impresario Jameson Thomas -- all started by a disruptive diner, Charles Laughton in his first great cameo. 35mm. Approx. 108 mins.