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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