FROM CHARLIE CHAN: “Etiquette ignored when lady in distress.”

GREETINGS! On their return trip home from the Berlin Olympic Games, Charlie Chan and son, Lee, stopover in New York City, but their stay is anything but restful!

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We Begin our evening at 7:30 Eastern Time with a 45-minute time for arrivals and greetings. During this time, we also have the opportunity to engage in open dialogue or perhaps an impromptu sharing of a short video upon request! Then, at precisely 8:15, we begin our feature film simultaneously starting our personal or online copies of this week’s feature!

THIS WEEK’S PRESENTATION: “Charlie Chan on Broadway” (1937; 65 minutes). (Distributed: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, October 8, 1937; Production: June 10 to mid-July 1937)

FEATURE INTRODUCTION: Billie Bronson, having left the country hurriedly a year earlier when sought as an important witness in a political scandal, has returned to New York City to "blow the lid off the town." Later, Billie is mysteriously murdered and Charlie Chan is summoned from a police banquet in his honor. While seeking a motive for her murder, a second killing is discovered in the hotel room of Chan and son Lee. A package is missing from the detective's trunk and it is realized that it must have contained Billie Bronson's inflammatory diary. Chan must piece together a string of clues in order to find the killer.

FEATURE NOTES: Thomas Beck is listed as a cast member in early ‘Hollywood Reporter’ cast charts, but his participation in the final film is doubtful.

CAST (as credited):

Warner Oland: Charlie Chan

Keye Luke: Lee Chan

Joan Marsh: Joan Wendall

J. Edward Bromberg: Murdock

Douglas Fowley: Johnny Burke

Harold Huber: Inspector [James] Nelson

Donald Woods: Speed Patten

Louise Henry: Billie Bronson

Joan Woodbury: Marie Collins

Leon Ames: Buzz Moran

Marc Lawrence: Thomas Mitchell

Tashia Mori: Ling Tse

Charles Williams: Meeker

Eugene Borden: Louie



UNCREDITED CAST (alphabetical):

Victor Adams: Gangster

Norman Ainsley: Steward

Sam Ash: Waiter

James Blaine: Detective

Esther Brodelet: Dancer

Don Brodie: Reporter

Harry Burns: Policeman

Allan Cavan: Doorman

Lon Chaney, Jr.: Desk Reporter

Jack Clifford: Detective

Harry Depp: Candid Camera Snapper

Lester Dorr: Photographer

Jack Dougherty: Policeman

Eddie Dunn: Policeman

Carl Faulkner: Policeman

Sidney Fields: Porter

James Flavin: Detective

Allen Fox: Reporter

George Guhl: Smitty, Policeman

Charles Haefeli: Pickpocket

Creighton Hale: Reporter

Sherry Hall: Reporter

Chuck Hamilton: Policeman

Beulah Hutton: Telephone Operator

William Jeffrey: Coroner

Kenner G. Kemp: Candid Camera Photograher at Hottentot Club

Robert Lowery: Reporter

Robert Middlemass: Police Official

Art Miles: Porter

Philip Morris: Customs Officer

Billy O'Brian: Copyboy

Paddy O'Flynn: Photographer

Henry Otho: Detective

Franklin Parker: Reporter

George Regas: Hindu

Cyril Ring: Candid Camera Photographer at Hottentot Club

Don Rowan: Policeman

Gloria Roy: Hat Check Girl

Lee Shumway: Policeman

Edwin Stanley: Laboratory Expert

Monte Vandergrift: Detective

Blue Washington: Doorman at Hottentot Club

Billy Wayne: Reporter

Allen Wood: Bellhop

THIS WEEK’S IMAGE: Warner Oland and Keye Luke receive direction.



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NEXT WEEK (April 11): Please join us as we continue our Charlie Chan Film Tour 2022 with a shared viewing of “Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo” as Charlie Chan and Number One Son, Lee, return to Europe passing through Monte Carlo on their way to Paris for an art show in which Lee has a painting. But there’s more…a LOT more in store for father and son!

AND, AS ALWAYS… DON’T MISS THIS GREAT CHARLIE CHAN BLOG!: A great blog site, The Postman on Holiday, is offered by our own Charlie Chan and Earl Derr Biggers expert, Lou Armagno which is: "A place to explore all things surrounding Detective Charlie Chan, his creator Earl Derr Biggers, and their connection with Hawaii, Cleveland, and mystery fiction." Updated each month, it can be found at this address: www.thepostmanonholiday.com

OUR 2022 CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY NEWSLETTER!

This year’s Charlie Chan Family Newsletter, chronicling the year 2021, is now available! Thank you so much, Lou, for your continued, masterfully hard work and dedication! It can be accessed at the following link:

https://thepostmanonholidayhome.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/2021-newsletter-lou-final.pdf

AND, FINALLY, REMEMBER: PLEASE JOIN US for this week’s feature “Charlie Chan on Broadway.”

AS ALWAYS: THANK YOU SO MUCH…

Sincerely,

Rush Glick