Pavement Butterfly (1929)
Großstadtschmetterling
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
- Date of release
- 1929-04-09
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Richard Eichberg
Casting
- Anna May Wong — Hai-Tang
- Alexander Granach — Coco
- Nien Sön Ling — Mr.Wu
- S.Z. Sakall — Paul Bennet
- Elwood Fleet Bostwick — Mr. Working
- Tilla Garden — Ellis Working - Mr. Working[s daughter
- Gaston Jacquet — Baron de Neuve
- Fred Louis Lerch — Fedja Kusmin
Interesting facts
Pavement Butterfly is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, and Gaston Jacquet. It was part of an ongoing co-production arrangement between Eichberg and British International Pictures.
Production
This is, after Song, also known as Show Life, the second of various collaborations of Eichberg with Wong.
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