Rosemary Chew and Olive Young, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Rosemary Chew and Olive Young, Los Angeles, 1928

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

1928

Date

1928

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Rosemary Chew and Olive Young seated on bench under bamboo structure with lanterns
Olive Young was an actress who was a major star at the Great Wall studio in Shanghai from 1926 to 1929. Born Olive Young in St. Joseph, Missouri, she first visited China at the age of 16, when her parents sent her to Hong Kong to complete her education. Two years later she began her acting career in Shanghai. After 1929, she returned to the United States and had a brief acting career in Hollywood.

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2357 P1-6. Pacific [illegible]. 1928. Pls ret negs. IN THE GARDEN OF THE WESTERN GODS. Olive Young, right, "Chinese Mary pickford" popular motion picture player of Chinese and oriental roles, Rosemary Chew, noted Chinese soprano and artist's model, photographed in the garden of the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles with the new Elk's Club as a back ground. Showing frieze of heroes etc. on wall - thus, in a garden of the Western gods.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
group portraits
black-and-white photographs

Names

Otis Art Institute
Young, Olive, 1903 or 07-1940
Chew, Rosemary

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

People
Actresses--Chinese--California
Singers
Actresses--American--California