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Esther Eng
Directing
24 Sept 1914
† 25 Jan 1970
San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Esther Eng (September 24, 1914 – January 25, 1970) was an American director and producer; known to be the first woman to have directed Chinese-language films in the United States, as well as South China's first woman director. As an openly lesbian woman, Esther Eng provided social commentary with a focus on the female protagonists in her works. Many of the films she has directed and produced are considered to be lost except for Golden Gate Girl (1941) and Murder in New York Chinatown (1961). Fi...
Also Known As
伍錦霞, 伍锦霞, Wu Jinxia, Ng Kam-ha, Эстер Энг
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