The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong
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| The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong | |
|---|---|
| Format | Detective / Adventure / Mystery |
| Starring | Anna May Wong |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | DuMont |
| Original run | August 27, 1951 – November 21, 1951 |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong was an American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. It starred Chinese American silent film and talkie star Anna May Wong. In the show she played a detective in a role written specifically for her. The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong was the first U.S. television series starring an Asian-American.[1]
Wong's character was a dealer in Chinese art whose career involved her in detective work and international intrigue.[2] The ten half-hour episodes aired during prime time, from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m.[3] Though there were plans for a second season, DuMont canceled the show in 1952. No copies of the show or its scripts are known to exist.[4]
Like most DuMont programs, no known episodes of The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong exist today. Although a few kinescope episodes of various DuMont series survive at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications or in the UCLA Film and Television Archive, there are no copies of The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong among either of the archives.[5] In 1996, early television actress Edie Adams testified at a hearing in front of a panel of the Library of Congress on the preservation of American television and video. Adams stated that by the 1970s little value was given to the DuMont film archive, and that all the remaining kinescopes of DuMont series were loaded into three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.[6]
[edit] Episode list
| # | Title[7] | Aired |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | No title | August 27, 1951 |
| 2. | "The Golden Women" | September 3, 1951 |
| 3. | "The Spreading Oak" | September 10, 1951 |
| 4. | "The Man with a Thousand Eyes" | September 17, 1951 |
| 5. | "Burning Sands" | September 24, 1951 |
| 6. | "Shadow of the Sun God" | October 1, 1951 |
| 7. | "The Tinder Box" | October 31, 1951 |
| 8. | "The House of Quiet Dignity" | November 7, 1951 |
| 9. | "Boomerang" | November 14, 1951 |
| 10. | "The Face of Evil" | November 21, 1951 |
[edit] References
- ^ "Film reveals real-life struggles of an onscreen 'Dragon Lady'." UCLA Today Online. January 3, 2008. Retrieved: May 27, 2008.
- ^ Camhi, Leslie. "FILM; A Dragon Lady and a Quiet Cultural Warrior". The New York Times, January 11, 2004.
- ^ Chan, Anthony B. Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961), p 80. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8108-4789-2.
- ^ Hodges, Graham Russell. Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend, pp. 216–217. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 0-312-29319-4.
- ^ Ingram, C. (2002). "The DuMont Television Network Historical Web Site". Retrieved June 7, 2008.
- ^ Adams, Edie (March 1996). Television/Video Preservation Study: Los Angeles Public Hearing. National Film Preservation Board. Library of Congress. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.
- ^ Episode list from Hodges, Graham Russell. Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 0-312-29319-4. P. 216.
