The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong

infobox television
show_name = The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong


caption =
format = Detective / Adventure / Mystery
runtime = 30 minutes
creator =
starring = Anna May Wong
country = USA
network = DuMont
first_aired = August 27, 1951
last_aired = November 21, 1951
num_episodes = 10
imdb_id = 0043202

"The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong" was an American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. It starred Chinese American silent film and talkie star Anna May Wong. In the show she played a detective in a role written specifically for her. "The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong" was the first U.S. television series starring an Asian-American. [http://www.today.ucla.edu/out-about/080103_anna-may-wong/ "Film reveals real-life struggles of an onscreen 'Dragon Lady'] ." [http://www.today.ucla.edu/ UCLA Today Online] . January 3, 2008. Retrieved: May 27, 2008.]

Wong's character was a dealer in Chinese art whose career involved her in detective work and international intrigue.Camhi, Leslie. "FILM; A Dragon Lady and a Quiet Cultural Warrior". "The New York Times", January 11, 2004.] The ten half-hour episodes aired during prime time, from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m.Chan, Anthony B. "Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961)", p 80. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8108-4789-2.] Though there were plans for a second season, DuMont canceled the show in 1952. No copies of the show or its scripts are known to exist.Hodges, Graham Russell. "Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend", pp. 216–217. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 0-312-29319-4.]

Like most DuMont programs, no known episodes of "The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong" exist today. Although a few kinescope episodes of various DuMont series survive at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications or in the UCLA Film and Television Archive, there are no copies of "The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong" in either archive.Ingram, C. (2002). [http://members.aol.com/cingram/television/dumonta5.htm "The DuMont Television Network Historical Web Site"] . Retrieved June 7 2008.] In 1996, early television actress Edie Adams testified at a hearing in front of a panel of the Library of Congress on the preservation of American television and video. Adams stated that by the 1970s little value was given to the DuMont film archive, and that all the remaining kinescopes of DuMont series were loaded into three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.cite web| last =Adams| first =Edie| authorlink =Edie Adams| coauthors =| title =Television/Video Preservation Study: Los Angeles Public Hearing| work =National Film Preservation Board| publisher =Library of Congress| date =March 1996| url =http://www.loc.gov/film/hrng96la.html| format =| doi =| accessdate =2007-09-24]

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