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Hollywood in 1929

Talking pictures dominate, the first Academy Awards are held, and Hollywood enters the Depression as a newly transformed industry.

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1929 · Drama

Piccadilly

A London nightclub melodrama remembered especially for Anna May Wong’s magnetic central performance.

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