CHING WAH LEE [1937-49] Autographed postcard group

[Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists, 1937-1949]. Set of three vintage original 3 x 5″ (9 x 15 cm) postcards, about fine. 

San Francisco-born Ching Wah Lee made just seven films between 1937 and 1946, with a return in 1961 for Flower Drum Song, but they are prominent films featuring Chinese characters. A gifted scholar, he spent much of his life giving tours of his native San Francisco’s Chinatown.

This group features three movie postcards which Lee has autographed. They are for his work on The Good Earth (1937), Little Mr. Jim (1946) with Butch Jenkins, and on the set of Impact (1949), a noir story set in San Francisco for which he was a consultant. He is shown on set with the film’s leading lady Ella Raines and star Anna May Wong.