Pavement Butterfly

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Pavement Butterfly (

The film was shot at the

Production

This is, after Song, the second^[3] of various collaborations of Eichberg with Wong.^[4]

Analysis

Analysing the evolution of the roles played by Wong in her career, Mayukh Sen wrote: "Her subsequent films with Eichberg broke her out of the typecasting that she’d faced in Hollywood. In 1929’s Pavement Butterfly, she played a Chinese dancer who, despite the title’s suggestion, was more of a self-possessed vamp than a passive wallflower."^[5]

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