Tuesdays from April 4 through May 16, the Austin Film Society’s Essential Cinema series will feature star turns from Wong, Baker, and Brooks, three actors who were all but exiled to Europe in their efforts to find screen time during the Twenties and Thirties. For more information, see www.austinfilm.org. All screenings take place at 7pm at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown.

April 4

Piccadilly (1929)

D: E.A. Dupont; with Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Cyril Ritchard, King Ho-Chang, Charles Laughton, Hannah Jones
April 11

Shanghai Express (1932)

D: Josef von Sternberg; with Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
April 18

Daughter of the Dragon (1931)

D: Lloyd Corrigan; with Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade
April 25

Zouzou (1934)

D: Marc Allégret; with Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey, Yvette Lebon, Illa Meery
May 2

Princess Tam Tam (1935)

D: Edmond T. Gréville; with Josephine Baker, Albert Préjean, Robert Arnoux, Germaine Aussey
May 9

Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

D: Georg Wilhelm Pabst; with Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovensk, Fritz Rasp, Vera Pawlowa
May 16

Pandora’s Box (1929)

D: Georg Wilhelm Pabst; with Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Alice Roberts, Gustav Diessl

This article appears in March 31 • 2006.

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