February 3, 1932 –
Paramount Pictures released Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook and Anna Mae Wong in Los Angeles on this date.
The extras in the film are mostly speaking Cantonese – a Chinese dialect used mainly in southern China. If the film were to be more accurate, the extras would be speaking Mandarin, but most Chinese residents in the Los Angeles area (who worked as film extras) spoke Cantonese, making Josef von Sternberg use Cantonese.
The Haus of Dcaligari 