#Movies #Asian #Chinese #China

I'm watching #55DaysInPeking (again) after a long hiatus & it's just as annoying now as when I 1st watched it.

While it has it's moments, it's reflective of the patronizing & racist way in which the #US film industry has depicted China & the Chinese people for nearly 100 years.

It was a blockbuster movie when it was released in 1963 & stars #CharlestonHeston, #AvaGardner & #DavidNiven & is set during the #BoxerRebellion in China during 1899-1901 which was a grass roots attempt to oust foreign "invaders" from China.

While it failed, the Boxer Rebellion is believed to have contributed to the fall of the Manchu (Ching) Dynasty & the formation of the Kuomingtang (Chinese Nationalist Party) that later fell to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which then led to the formation of the #RepublicOfChina in Taiwan, which (of course) the CCP does NOT recognize & is just waiting to invade & retake in the name of China.

Worth watching in an historical film context but not otherwise.

Happy birthday to Grabtown NC’s own, Ava Gardner.

#AvaGardner #BOTD

La 𝐒éance du 𝐒oir

𝐋𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐱 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐧𝐮𝐬
Film réalisé par Joseph L. Mankiewicz en 1954
Avec Ava Gardner , Humphrey Bogart et Valentina Cortese

*Mélodrame en Technicolor,qui sublime à la fois la beauté irréelle d'Ava Gardner et le charisme intemporel d'Humphrey Bogart

#TheBarefootContessa #JosephLMankiewicz #AvaGardner #HumphreyBogart
#ValentinaCortese #classic #cinema #films #culte #cinegenres
@Cinegenres #LaSéanceDuSoir

𝐋a 𝐒éance du 𝐒oir:
https://cinegenres.com/film-de-la-soiree/

This is a really beautifully done book for just $30USD.

#AvaGardner #Biography #Film

https://ava-gardner-museum.myshopify.com/products/book-ava-gardner-a-life-in-the-movies

Lena Horne, who should have had the role of Julie in Show Boat, and her friendship with Ava Gardner

#LenaHorne #AvaGardner #ShowBoat #Musicals

https://www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/blog/post/lena-horne-legend-icon-and-friend/