James Abbe ~ The Slave Girl. Betty Blythe in ‘Chu Chin Chow’. Motion Picture Classic, January 1924 | src internet archiveBetty Blythe in Chu-Chin-Chow (Herbert Wilcox, 1923). Italian postcard by Vettori, Bologna, nº 345. Photo: James Abbe. | src Flickr
The film was based on the musical Chu Chin Chow (a reinterpretation of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) by Oscar Asche that ran in London from 1916 to 1921 and was shot at a studio lot in Steglitz in Southwestern Berlin.
James Abbe ~ The Slave Girl. Betty Blythe poses in the role of Dugget Flower in ‘Chu Chin Chow’. MPC, January 1924 (full page) | src internet archive
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