A Trip to Chinatown is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and starring Margaret Livingston. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell. The movie was scripted by Beatrice Van from Charles Hale Hoyt's hit 1891 Broadway musical of the same name and directed by Robert P. Kerr.[1][2]
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Directed by | Robert P. Kerr |
Written by | Beatrice Van |
Based on | A Trip to Chinatown by Charles Hale Hoyt |
Produced by | William Fox |
Starring | Margaret Livingston Earle Foxe J. Farrell MacDonald |
Cinematography | Barney McGill |
Distributed by | Fox Film |
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Running time | 60 minutes; 6 reels (5,594 feet) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Livingston played the "Woman from the City" the following year in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the rival to Farrell's future screen partner Janet Gaynor.
With no prints of A Trip to Chinatown located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.[4]
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