A Final Coda to Anna May Wong in Elstree Calling (1930)

I blogged recently on Anna May Wong’s fleeting but memorable appearance in Elstree Calling a filmed review show from 1930 where she appeared in a strange skit on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Those posts are here and here…

My thanks to Dr Anne Witchard of the University of Westminster (whose book Thomas Burke’s Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown discusses Anna May Wong’s London sojourn in depth) who points out that Wong is wearing her costume (sans headpiece) from Piccadilly, the film she made in London the year before, 1929. Piccadilly was made by British International Pictures which was in a consortium with British National Studios and Elstree Studios, so perhaps her costume as Shosho, London pub scullery maid who becomes a West End performer, was just waiting for her when she turned up to film Elstree Calling?