Event
PICCADILLY staring Anna May Wong,
Tuesday, January 25th at 7:30pm
Live Musical Accompaniment by BEN MODEL on the Cinemas Miditzer Theater Organ
$9 Members / $13 Public / Includes Reception
Active Membership Will Be Checked
One of the pinnacles of British silent cinema, Piccadilly is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama
seething with sexual and racial tension. The Chinese-American screen goddess Anna May
Wong stars as Shosho, a scullery maid in a fashionable London nightclub whose sensuous
tabletop dance catches the eye of suave club owner Valentine Wilmot. She rises to become the
toast of London and the object of his erotic obsession - to the bitter jealousy of Mabel, his former
lover and star dancer (played by Ziegfeld Follies star Gilda Gray). Directed by E A Dupont, Piccadilly
boasts dazzling cinematography and atmospheric sets ranging from the opulent West End nightclub
(actually filmed in Piccadilly's Cafe de Paris) to seedy Limehouse. Charles Laughton has a cameo role,
making one of his first screen appearances as a greedy nightclub diner. UK, 1929, 92 min., b/w
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LocationCinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington, NY 11731
United States
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| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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