ANNA MAY WONG | CHINATOWN CHARLIE (1928) Keybook photo w. Louise Lorraine

[Hollywood: First National Pictures, 1928]. Vintage original 8 x 11″ (20 x 28 cm.) black-and-white linen-backed keybook photo, fine.

Anna May Wong and Louise Lorraine in this film about Chinatown bus tour guide Charlie who finds that one of his lady riders (Lorraine) is pursued by a Tong gang because she has a supposedly magic ring. They kidnap her and she’s brought to a mysterious Mandarin’s mansion, where Charlie goes to rescue her. 

Wong was only seventh-billed in this film, and photos like this of her from it would accordingly be especially difficult to find. Coded “BH8-97”.