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Paris: Les Films Haïk, 1940. Vintage matte-finish postcard photograph of Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, circa 1940s. Frustrated by the discrimination and typecasting she faced in Hollywood, Wong spent the first half of the 1930s traveling between Europe and the US for stage and film work. She would appear in what many consider her best-remembered role during… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1962 film. The true story of George Ray Tweed, the only US naval officer to avoid capture by the Japanese while stationed in Guam during World War II. One of the only American film appearances by noted Filipina actress Barbara Perez. Set in… Read more about this item

Venice, CA: Capricorn Productions, 1975. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With an annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper noting the title of the script, and another on the first page of text, noting an editorial revision. The jazz-loving navigator of a small Japanese submarine finds himself accidentally stranded in a small American town in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel, also written by Jack Lewis, about two broke Americans in Hong Kong who are hired to import weapons for a Nationalist Chinese guerrilla band. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" (1960) and for his prolific work in Western… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. Final script for the 1958 film, also seen here under the working title "The Townsend Harris Story." A dramatization of the experiences of American diplomat Townsend Harris, sent to serve as the first US Consul General to Japan in 1856, during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. Set and… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1999. Final Draft script for Season One Episode Six of the 1999 television series, here under the working title "Into the Black." Copy belonging to actor Benjamin Lum, with a call sheet dated March 2, 1999 laid in, along with two signed photographs of actors James Wlcek and Marco Sanchez. Additionally… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Fugu Plan Film Production, 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on the first page. Based on a 1979 newspaper article about Senpo Sugihara, a Japanese consulate in Lithuania who approved travel and departure visas for thousands of Jews during World War II, defying direct orders and saving many people's… Read more about this item

London: Roadshow Productions, 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film. Based on the 1979 book by Joan and Clay Blair, detailing a 1944 Japanese naval transport of thousands of British and Australian prisoners-of-war, during which the ships used to transport the prisoners were torpedoed by US submarines, causing 1,559 of the captives to perish. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An intended followup to the successful Charlie Chan film series. Not to be confused with "The Return of Charlie Chan," a 1973 television film directed by Daryl Duke and Leslie H. Martinson. Set in New York. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1954. Draft script for the 1954 film. With faint manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Set months before the beginning of the Korean War, an American Air Force instructor is assigned to a Kungju base where he is set with the formidable task of completely transforming the South Korean pilots into unstoppable fighting machines in 25 days. Originally… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1963. Draft script for the 1964 film. MGM File Copy, with two interoffice communications, a three page cast list, and a casting note bound in before the script, and a script department sleeve containing a check-out card affixed to the front wrapper verso. Based on the 1935 novel "The Circus of Dr. Lao"… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Third Draft script for the 1990 film. A second-generation Japanese-American woman is forced into a prison camp after the Pearl Harbor attacks, threatening her new relationship with a young Irish-American projectionist. Shot on location in Portland and Astoria, Oregon, and in Cathlamet, Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington. Blue titled Twentieth… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the 1932 pre-Code film, showing actress Myrna Loy in yellowface as the daughter of Fu Manchu. Based on the 1932 novel by Sax Rohmer. The best-known of the early Fu Manchu films, wherein the eponymous doctor determines to find the legendary mask and sword of Genghis Khan. 8 x… Read more about this item

N.p.: United International Pictures, 1975. Vintage one-sheet poster for the US release of the 1974 film. The poster which features an image of Bruce Lee and declares "Bruce Lee / Is He Alive or Dead? / What Really Happened? Where? How? Why? / The Life and Times of the King Dragon," did not in fact feature Lee, nor was… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1944. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1944 film. With mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on the 1942 novel by Pearl S. Buck. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a small Chinese village is invaded by the Japanese Imperial Army. One woman decides to stand up to the Japanese, and her defiance… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures, 1946. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1946 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. The second-to-last film to feature Sidney Toler as Chinese detective Charlie Chan, and the 38th of 47 "Charlie Chan" films in total. Set in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, lightly… Read more about this item

Paris: Armand Colin, 1947. Later printing. Association Copy, INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page to activist and actress Fola La Follette: "Pour ma géniale Fola / avec mon amour / Ferny / 31 Mai 1949" ["For my brilliant Fola / with my love / Ferny / May 31 1949"]. La Follette's nephew David Middleton's ownership stamp… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1953. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED by the author on the verso of the half-title page: "To my great friends who know how to write / George Middleton and Fola La Follette / my tribute to them / Mary R. Beard." Middleton's nephew David's ownership stamp on the front pastedown.… Read more about this item

N.p.: Raymond Chow, 1981. Vintage Spanish lobby card for the 1981 Hong Kong martial arts film. Marketed as a sequel to the never-completed martial arts film "Game of Death," after actor Bruce Lee's death in 1973. Lee's scenes were taken from his older films, including "Enter the Dragon" (1973). 12 x 16 inches. Good only,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1942. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1942 French film, all three showing noted Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa. Based on the 1938 novel by Maurice Dekobra, a melodrama set during the Sino-Japanese war, about a German arms dealer who runs afoul of a Chinese mobster. Originally shot with Erich von Stroheim in the lead, but… Read more about this item