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Madame Butterfly (1932)

Madame Butterfly (1932)

Drama
Release Date: 1932, December 30
Directors: Marion Gering
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Louise Carter, Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Berton Churchill, Helen Jerome Eddy, Edmund Breese, Irving Pichel, Sheila Terry, Dorothy Libaire, Judith Vosselli, Sándor Kállay

Overview:

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.

Keywords:

suicide based on play or musical black and white geisha interracial romance promise yellowface pre-code cultural difference