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New York, New York
05 Oct 1940, Sat • Page 185
Olive Young (June 21, 1903 – October 5, 1940) on the movie screen, was an American-born film actress in China.
Of Chinese ancestry, she visited China, where she may have been the first female motion picture photographer and movie director in China. Later in life she became an American actress and a touring Blues singer.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Young_(actress)
Cover of the Young Companion issue 7, 1926, featuring actress Li Dandan.
Li Xiaqing or Lee Ya-Ching (Chinese: 李霞卿; pinyin: Lǐ Xiáqīng; 16 April 1912 – 28 January 1998), also known by her stage name Li Dandan (李旦旦), was a Chinese film actress, pioneering aviator, and philanthropist.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ya-Ching
The Stormy Night, 1925 Chinese film directed by Zhu Shouju 朱瘦菊 for Dazhonghua Baihe Film Company.
The Stormy Night is a 1925 Chinese drama film directed and written by novelist Zhu Shouju. Like most Chinese films from this period, it is a black-and-white silent film with both Chinese and English intertitles.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stormy_Night_(1925_film)
Chen Yanyan in the Big Road 1934.
The Big Road (China, 1934) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Road
Chen Yanyan (12 January 1916 – 7 May 1999) was a Chinese actress and film producer in the cinema of Republic of China (1912–1949), British Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Chen Yanyan Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yanyan
Stills from The Cave of the Silken Web (China,1927).
The Cave of the Silken Web a.k.a. Journey to the West – the Spiders Cave a.k.a. Spiders is a 1927 Chinese film directed by Dan Duyu and starring Yin Mingzhu as the first spider spirit. It is based on an episode of the shenmo fantasy novel Journey to the West, a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cave_of_the_Silken_Web_(1927_film)
Beijing Opera actor Tan Xinpei in the first Chinese movie Dingjunshan (1905).
Dingjun Mountain was a 1905 Chinese silent film directed by Ren Qingtai (任慶泰) a.k.a. Ren Jingfeng (任景豐), who was assisted by his cinematographer Liu Zhonglun (劉仲伦). This film, made by Beijing’s Fengtai Photography (豐泰照相館), constitutes the first Chinese film ever made.
The film consisted of a recording of Peking opera superstar Tan Xinpei dressed in the character Huang Zhong and singing some arie from the Peking opera of the same name. The play is a dramatised account of Battle of Mount Dingjun (219 AD) and based on an episode in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The only print was destroyed in a fire in the late 1940s.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingjun_Mountain_(film)
Lobby card for the American drama film The Straight Way (1916).
The Straight Way (USA, 1916)
IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007399/
Advertisement in Moving Picture World for the film Jealousy (USA,1916).
Jealousy (USA, 1916). IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006879/
Advertisement for the American silent film, The Menace of the Mute, in the Moving Picture World, November 6, 1915.
Original author: Pathe FilmsPublication: Moving Picture World
Date of Publication: November 6, 1915
The Menace of the Mute (USA, 1915) Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005738/
Title: Moving Picture World
Date: January 1917
Publisher: New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
Volume: Moving Picture World (Jan 1917)
Leaf #:000408
Language: English
Subjects: Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine, nyarc-museumofmodernart
Advertisement for the film A Weaver of Dreams (1918) with Viola Dana in The Moving Picture World.
Date: 2 March 1918
A Weaver of Dreams (USA, 1918).
IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009783/
Advertisement for one of the 50 silent films made by the United States Motion Picture Corporation. It is for the one reel film Bridget’s Blunder and was made in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Date: 14 October 1916
Original publication: Bridget’s Blunder. Advertisement.
Moving Picture World October 14, 1916: 187. Web.
Bridget’s Blunder (USA, 1916)
IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4961890/
Silent Beauties 