The Far East question reminds me. You read about the Warner Oland trouble—suspension, disappearance, shelving of the current film, nervous breakdown.
It seems that Charlie Chan will not be with us for some time, if again.
But here is the saddest thing of for the studio, Twentieth Century. For a year more they have been trying to insure against the day when this highly profitable series of Chan films would be done.
They started to develop the little German actor, Peter Lorre, as "Mr More," Japanese sleuth.
Now the Chan breakdown has come and how would you like io try to sella Japanese detective as a popular hero to the great American public right now? Think fast, Zanuck.
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