Blossom Time
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joseph Sunn
Sin Lang Dew
Wu Dip Ying
Lim Yah On
Yong Sin Lon
Jow Sil Ying
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Synopsis
Lom Won and Fei Ying, members of a Chinese opera troupe, take some off to tour California and look at wild flowers. As they stroll in the countryside near San Francisco, Ying notices the beautiful voice of Chin Quai Fong, a farmer, as he sings a traditional Chinese song. Fong's mother offers the touring artists a cup of tea, but Wong, anxious and jealous of Ying's attention to Fong, insists that they return to San Francisco. Ying promises to leave Fong and his mother tickets for her upcoming performance in the city. Later, during an intermission of the performance, Fong visits Ying, but Wong enters the dressing room and intimidates him. Fong is about to leave, but Ying reappears and tells him her wish that he audition for the show. Fong's only worry is his mother, but Ying convinces the kindly matriarch that Fong is a great talent and that she would support the family in the event that he failed on the stage. Chin, the director of the show, is hesitant to hire Fong, but after hearing his lovely singing voice and witnessing the reaction of female members of the audience to Fong's handsome face, he offers Fong a six-month contract. Soon Fong and Ying begin to fall in love, and Wong grows jealous of Fong for stealing his fame and the woman he loves. One night, at a restaurant, Spanish caberet performer Yong Sho Lum, whom Wong has hired to rupture the relationship between Fong and Ying, flirts with Fong, and when Ying goes to take a phone call from Wong, Lum slips Fong her phone number. A few days later, Fong tells Ying that he is sick and then goes to Lum's apartment. Worried about Fong, Ying goes to his home, finds the dancer's note, then follows Fong to his rendez-vous . Furious and hurt, Ying leaves Fong and in her sorrow begins to spend more time with Wong, fixing his stage makeup as she once did for Fong. Meanwhile, Fong's performances grow sloppy, and he spends so much time with Lum that he frequently arrives late to the theater. On one such occasion, Chin fires Fong, who then seeks comfort with Lum. Lum, meanwhile, has gone to see Wong to demand her payment for ruining Fong and Ying's love affair, but Wong slaps her and laughs in her face and the teary-eyed dancer returns to Fong and tells him of Wong's treachery. Fong goes to see Wong, punches him in the face, then goes to another town, where he struggles to find work. Meanwhile, Fong's mother and niece have not heard from him, and Ying sends them money for their support. One day, as they drive through a town near San Francisco, Ying and Wong get a flat tire. While taking a walk they hear the voice of Fong singing in a Chinese restaurant. Ying forgives Fong, and Wong storms out. Then Ying tells Fong that together they will restore his career and the pair go for a reunion with Fong's overjoyed mother.
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Director
Joseph Sunn
Cast
Sin Lang Dew
Wu Dip Ying
Lim Yah On
Yong Sin Lon
Jow Sil Ying
Lee
Wong Gum
Jung Quai Lung
Yip Quon Ping
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Notes
The Mandarin transliteration of the title is "Guh Lu Chin Chow," and the Cantonese transliteration is "Go Lui Qing Qiu." The above credits and plot summary are based on a translated dialogue continuity deposited with the NYSA. Although the film included several songs, none of the titles or composers could be verified. Correspondence deposited with the cutting continuity indicates that the Grandview Film Company was located in San Francisco, and that the film was approved for exhibition in New York state in May 1934. According to a 1947 article in East Wind, director Joseph Sunn, also known as Joseph Sunn Jue, organized the company in San Francisco in 1933. Following this film, the company opened a studio in Kowloon, Kwangtung, where they made over ninety films until 1939, when production was halted because of the war. The company returned to San Francisco at that time and resumed production there during the war.
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