A Trip to Chinatown is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and starring Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell. The movie was scripted by Beatrice Van from Charles Hale Hoyt's hit 1891 Broadway musical of the same name and directed by Robert P. Kerr.The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: A Trip to ChinatownProgressive Silent Film List: A Trip to Chinatown (1926) at silentera.com
Livingston played the "Woman from the City" the following year in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the rival to Farrell's future screen partner Janet Gaynor.
Plot As described in a film magazine review, Welland Strong is a young man who is told by his doctor that he has but a short time to live, so he gives away all his effects and goes to San Francisco to visit his rich and lively uncle Benjamin Strong. There he has many adventures which culminate in his agreeing to marry the widow Alicia Cuyer and in his learning that the period of his life is to be greatly extended.
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Production A Trip to Chinatown was mainly filmed in fall of 1925 before being finished in spring 1926."Film Company in Big Celebration," Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, January 18, 1926, pg 5. The film was Robert Kerr's first solo feature length film.Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, January 26, 1926, pg 5. Livingston reportedly wore 36 different handmade dresses throughout the film. Outfits matching Livingston's were made for the monkey featured in the film."Margaret Livingston Revels in Comedy in A Trip to Chinatown," The Huntington Press, May 30, 1926, pg 13.
Preservation With no prints of A Trip to Chinatown located in any film archives, The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: A Trip to Chinatown it is a lost film.A Trip to Chinatown at Lost Film Files: Lost Fox Film films - 1926
See also 1937 Fox vault fire
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