eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 2s407 MR. WONG IN CHINATOWN trade ad 1939 great images of Asian detective Boris Karloff! Date Sold 12/23/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Trade Ad (measures 9" x 12 1/4" [23 x 31 cm]; 1 page) (Learn More) Mr. Wong in Chinatown, the 1939 William Nigh San Francisco California Chinese detective mystery crime thriller ("Based on the 'James Lee Wong' series in Collier's Magazine written by Hugh Wiley") starring Boris Karloff (in the title role as James Lee Wong), Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, Peter George Lynn, Huntley Gordon, and Angelo Rossitto (as the "Mute Dwarf"). Note that there was a character called "Mr. Wong" in the 1935 movie "The Mysterious Mr. Wong", and he was played by Bela Lugosi. In 1938, "Mr. Wong, Detective" was made, starring Boris Karloff in the title role, and this Mr. Wong was an Chinese detective and had no relationship to the earlier Bela Lugosi character (this was based on a series of "James Lee Wong" stories in Collier's Magazine written by Hugh Wiley). This proved popular, and there were four more movies with Karloff playing Mr. Wong in 1939 and 1940. In 1940, he left the role, and one more movie was made, "Phantom of Chinatown", starring Keye Luke in the lead role, but that was the last of the series (perhaps it was the loss of Karloff that ended the series, or perhaps 1940 was not a good time for U.S. movies with an Asian hero). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a large group of trade ads we are currently auctioning, all of which were removed from exhibitor magazines or studio yearbooks. These are far more rare than ads removed from regular movie magazines (because those were sold to the general public, whereas exhibitor magazines and studio yearbooks were ONLY sent to theater owners). Often, these trade ads have completely different images from the posters the studios created, both because they were aimed at a different market, and they were often prepared prior to the movie's actual release, so they might have something different about them! Many of these may not have been printed in any other form since this ad was first printed (and unless otherwise indicated above, it is from when the movie was first released, usually slightly in advance of the movie's actual release). Note that the back of this page has text or an ad for other movies from that time, and we have not pictured that back page because the primary interest to bidders is the ad we have pictured. Condition: very good. The trade ad was removed from a magazine (see above). Learn More about condition grades
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