Li Ting Lang (1920)
In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudice is broached here -- and Hayakawa still doesn't get the girl, who in this case is society girl Marion Halstead (Doris Pawn).
- Date of release
- 1920-07-24
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Charles Swickard
Casting
- Sessue Hayakawa — Li Ting Lang
- Allan Forrest — Rob Murray
- Charles Mason — Red Dalton
- Doris Pawn — Marion Halstead
- Frances Raymond — Priscilla Mayhew
- Marc Robbins — Prince Nu Chang
Interesting facts
Li Ting Lang is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Charles Swickard and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. The film was based on the short story Li Ting Lang, Chinese Gentleman, by Howard P. Rockey, which was published in the December 1916 issue of The Green Book Magazine. A print of Li Ting Lang exists in the Gosfilmofond film archive in Moscow, Russia.
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