Film director Robert Florey and actress Virginia Dabney at the Yee Hwa (Yihua) Motion Picture Company Studio, 1937
Shanghai
Courtesy of the Robert Florey Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 178_070034_p002_12
Robert Florey filming on the streets, 1937
Shanghai
Courtesy of the Robert Florey Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 178_070034_p012
American film director Robert Florey traveled twice – in 1934 and 1937 – to China, where he spent several weeks filming background shots for Paramount and Warner Bros. studios. While in Shanghai, he visited the Yee Hwa Motion Picture Company, which had opened in 1933 as a left-wing studio, but by 1935 had turned to entertainment films.