[Pinyin title: Yiye Fuqi] - any film cans discovered containing Eng's films are likely to have Chinese-character titles. I am a big fan of Ng Chor-fan and the wonderful Pak Yin from their films of the 1950s. Pak would have expertly wrung every last tear from the above story. Esther Eng (1914-1970) was one of Chinese cinema's greatest female directors - oddly, an American too. This is one of her ten lost films (nine of them as director - here, co-director). For a long time, I've been developing a feature film on Esther Eng's life and would love to hear of anything new on her films via frankmondial@yahoo.com . See also www.estherengstory.com on this only known American woman directing commercial movies between the Hollywood careers of Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino.
Also a famous New York restaurateur, hers is one of the strangest disappearing acts in film history. Central/South America offers reasonable hope for rediscovering movies that she distributed there (maybe her own too) in the 1940s, including to Havana, Cuba. Detailed portraits of her appear in "China Daily" (HK English edition) of 23/24 January 2010 and "Women of China" (Beijing, June 2006, English edition). See http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2010-01/23/content_9365379.htm
Frank Bren, 23.02.2010
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