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53 relations: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Adolph Zukor, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, American Film Institute, Anna May Wong, Émile Chautard, Bad Girl (1931 film), Beijing, Boarding house, Boule de Suif, Chiaroscuro, Chinese Civil War, Clive Brook, Courtesan, English language, Eugene Pallette, Eurasian (mixed ancestry), Film poster, Frank Borzage, Frank Sullivan (film editor), French language, German language, Grand Hotel (1932 film), Great Depression, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Guy de Maupassant, Harry Hervey, James Wong Howe, Jonathan Spence, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, Lawrence Grant, Lee Garmes, Lincheng Outrage, Louise Closser Hale, Lucy Aldrich, Mandarin Chinese, Marlene Dietrich, Motion Picture Production Code, Night Plane from Chungking, Opium, Paramount Pictures, Peking Express (film), Pre-Code Hollywood, Senses of Cinema, Shanghai, The New York Times, ..., United States, Warner Oland, 5th Academy Awards. Expand index (3 more) »
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.
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Academy Award for Best Director
The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.
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Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was an American film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures, born in Austria-Hungary.
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes
Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years...
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American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
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Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong, January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
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Émile Chautard
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era.
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Bad Girl (1931 film)
Bad Girl is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film.
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Beijing
Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.
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Boarding house
A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, and years.
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Boule de Suif
"Boule de Suif" (translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", or "Ball of Lard") is a famous short story by the late 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant first published on 15/16 April 1880.
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Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro (Italian for light-dark), in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).
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Clive Brook
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor.
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Courtesan
A courtesan was originally a courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Eugene Pallette
Eugene William Pallette (July 8, 1889 – September 3, 1954) was an American actor.
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Eurasian (mixed ancestry)
A Eurasian is a person of mixed Asian and European ancestry.
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Film poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film.
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Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor, most remembered for directing 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), Man's Castle (1933), and The Mortal Storm (1940).
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Frank Sullivan (film editor)
Franklin Starbuck "Frank" Sullivan (February 7, 1896 – September 30, 1972) was an American film editor.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Grand Hotel (1932 film)
Grand Hotel is a 1932 American pre-code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Gustav von Seyffertitz
Gustav von Seyffertitz (4 August 1862 – 25 December 1943) was a German film actor and director.
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Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
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Harry Hervey
Harry Hervey (November 5, 1900 – August 12, 1951) was one of the most highly sought screenplayer of the first half of the 20th century, praised by critics of literature, stage and screen.
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James Wong Howe
Wong Tung Jim, A.S.C. (August 28, 1899 – July 12, 1976), known professionally as James Wong Howe, was a Chinese American cinematographer who worked on over 130 films.
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Jonathan Spence
Jonathan Dermot Spence (born 11 August 1936) is a British-born American historian and public intellectual specialising in Chinese history.
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Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg, (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director.
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Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 – September 22, 1966) was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter.
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Lawrence Grant
Percy Reginald Lawrence-Grant (30 October 1870 in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England – 19 February 1952 in Santa Barbara, California, USA) was an English actor known for supporting roles in films such as The Living Ghost, I'll Tell the World, Shanghai Express, The Mask of Fu Manchu and Son of Frankenstein.
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Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer.
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Lincheng Outrage
The Lincheng Outrage, also known as the Lincheng Incident (simplified Chinese: 临城劫车案; pinyin: Lín chéng jié chē àn), was the seizure of the luxury "Blue Express" train traveling between Shanghai and Beijing and the taking of over 300 hostages by bandits near the town of Lincheng, China on the night of May 5-6, 1923.
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Louise Closser Hale
Louise Closser Hale (October 13, 1872 – July 26, 1933) was an American actress, playwright, and novelist.
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Lucy Aldrich
Lucy Truman Aldrich (1869–1955) was a philanthropist and art collector who was the eldest daughter of U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.
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Motion Picture Production Code
The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.
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Night Plane from Chungking
Night Plane from Chungking (also known as China Pass and Sky Over China) is a 1943 American war film released by Paramount Pictures, directed by Ralph Murphy, and produced by Michael Kraike and Walter MacEwen from a screenplay by Lester Cole, Earl Fenton and Theodore Reeves, adapted by Sidney Biddell from the story by Harry Hervey.
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Opium
Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.
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Peking Express (film)
Peking Express is a 1951 Film-noir crime, thriller, action, adventure film made by Paramount Pictures.
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Pre-Code Hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929LaSalle (2002), pg.
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Senses of Cinema
Senses of Cinema is a quarterly online film magazine founded in 1999 by filmmaker Bill Mousoulis.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Warner Oland
Warner Oland (October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: the Honolulu Police detective, Lieutenant Charlie Chan; Dr.
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5th Academy Awards
The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Express_(film)
