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Title: Moon Kwan
Creator: Evans, Nelson Frazer, 1889-1923
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915-1921
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2017-0689.
Bust-length portrait holding cigarette.
Born in Guangzhou, China in 1896; came to California, first to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles in 1915. Pursued a career in filmmaking; working as writer and actor. Worked as advisor on D.W. Griffith's film Broken Blossom in 1919. Returned to China in 1921 where established film company, taught acting and scriptwriting in Hong Kong. Was pivotal figure in development of Chinese film industry. In 1923, cofounded with Joseph Sunn Jue, Grandview Film Company in San Francisco to make Chinese-language films for American market.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : cardboard mount, print ; 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001613018CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Kwan, Moon,, 1896-1995--Portraits
Chinese--California--Portraits
Actors--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture industry--China--Photographs
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Los Angeles
China
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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