Sunday 21st March '10, 7.00pm Glasgow Film Theatre
12 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6RB
The Scotland-China Association has sponsored this monorail film club event.
ANNA MAY WONG ~ FROSTED YELLOW WILLOWS: HER LIFE, TIMES, AND LEGEND (N/C 12+)
Los Angeles based director Elaine Mae Woo presents her documentary about the life of Anna May Wong, the first Chinese star in American cinema. The documentary is narrated by actress nancy Kwan, star of The World of Suzie Wong.
Elaine is in Glasgow researching Anna May Wong's visit to the city in the 1930s and would be keen to hear from anyone who remembers it (contact via website).
Film Website : www.anna-may-wong.com
GFT website : http://www.gft.org.uk/content/
Statement by director :
In the early 1990s, a well known director at a reception following the screening of a Kurosawa
film brought Anna May Wong to Elaine Mae Woo’s attention. Elaine admitted that she knew
nothing about Anna. The director shook his head, said a couple of words and then walked away.
It was at this point that Elaine swore that she would learn about Anna before she would ever see
this director again. This is how the making of Anna May Wong ~ Frosted Yellow Willows: Her
Life, Times and Legend began.
Nearly ten years in the making, this biographical documentary film is finally being presented
to the public. Interviews were conducted with members of Anna’s family, childhood friends
and people who worked with her. Without the support of Nancy Kwan, Kevin Brownlow, A. C.
Lyles, Judy Yung, Philip Leibfried, Leonard Maltin, Law Kar and many other film historians, archives,
academic institutions and devoted Anna admirers, this film would never have been made.
