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Pavement Butterfly (1929)

Pavement Butterfly (1929)

Drama
Release Date: 1929, April 9
Directors: Richard Eichberg
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom
Production: Richard Eichberg-Film GmbH, British International Pictures
Cast: S.Z. Sakall, Gaston Jacquet, Alexander Granach, Anna May Wong, Nien Sön Ling, Tilla Garden, Elwood Fleet Bostwick, Fred Louis Lerch

Overview:

In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.