Pavement Butterfly

Name: Pavement Butterfly
Cast: Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, Nien Sön Ling, S.Z. Sakall, Elwood Fleet Bostwick

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Richard EichbergWriters: Adolf Lantz, Hans Kyser

Anna May Wong

as Hai-Tang

Alexander Granach

as Coco

Nien Sön Ling

as Mr.Wu

S.Z. Sakall

as Paul Bennet

Elwood Fleet Bostwick

as Mr. Working

Tilla Garden

as Ellis Working - Mr. Working[s daughter

Gaston Jacquet

as Baron de Neuve

Fred Louis Lerch

as Fedja Kusmin

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