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Spotlight: Anna May WongFilm 11 of 13
Daughter of the Dragon
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Lloyd Corrigan, Paramount, 1931, from Sax Rohmer. Anna May Wong is Princess Ling Moy, a nightclub performer who learns she is Fu Manchu’s daughter and is pointed at Scotland Yard. Sessue Hayakawa is Ah Kee, the detective; Warner Oland, again in yellowface, is Fu in his last turn in the part. Wong and Hayakawa, two stars the studios would not let play ordinary leads, share a thriller that still needs a white couple in the background. Seventy minutes, early sound. Wong’s voice is low and exact. The dragon is Rohmer’s.
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She came home to this: Fu Manchu's daughter, Warner Oland in yellowface for the last time, a white couple parked in the background to be endangered. She and Hayakawa play it with a precision that reads as contempt. Her voice, low and exact, is the one thing here Paramount did not deserve.
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