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Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford Visit Shanghai, 1929

Posted: July 26th, 2014 | 2 Comments »

In 1929 the American movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and his wife, “America’s Sweetheart”, Mary Pickford visited Shanghai. Having won the first Oscar, Fairbanks was sent on a world tour to promote Hollywood. 5,000 fans flocked to Woosung to welcome the couple’s ship to Shanghai. However, the KMT government was concerned about the content of some of their films (see this post on The Chinese Mirror Chinese cinema blog). This photo shows Fairbanks and Pickford with the staff of the Mingxing Film Studio with Fairbanks standing next to the Shanghai starlet Hu Die (Butterfly Wu).

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2 Comments on “Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford Visit Shanghai, 1929”

  1. 1 Jeannette said at 7:02 am on October 11th, 2018:

    Who is standing next to Hu Die in the White fur trim coat. She is another Chinese actress I believe.
    Thanks
    Jeannette

  2. 2 paul French said at 5:59 pm on October 11th, 2018:

    sorry – I don’t know – not too good on old Shanghai actresses


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