
Warner Oland.
Fan Photograph (with facsimile signature)
c. late 1920s
7 x 5 inches

Warner Oland.
Paramount Pictures
Publicity Photograph P1060-3 (W.O. 1)
c. late 1920s
10 x 8 inches

Warner Oland.
Paramount Pictures
Publicity Photograph
c. late 1920s
10 x 8 inches

Warner Oland.
Paramount Pictures
Publicity Photograph P1060-13
c. late 1920s
10 x 8 inches

Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (Charlie Chan’s Courage).
Fox-Europa Postcard 637
Editions Chantal, Paris
c. 1934
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches

Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
20th Century-Fox
Publicity Photograph F52/12
1935
10 x 8 inches

Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
20th Century-Fox
Publicity Photograph
F52/17
c. 1937-38
10 x 8 inches

Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
20th Century-Fox
Publicity Photograph F52/23
c. 1936
10 x 8 inches

February 26, 1936 – Warner Oland and his wife, Edith, stopped for one
day in Honolulu as they arrived aboard the Malolo at 9:00 a.m. on the
first leg of their journey to China. At 5:00 p.m., the Olands departed for
Japan aboard the Taiyo Maru on the next leg of their journey to China.
Photograph (removed from a photo album)
February 26, 1936
3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches

Warner Oland and his wife, Edith, pose with a Buddhist
monk during their trip to China in March 1936.
Press Photograph
1936
8 x 10 inches

Warner Oland and his wife, Edith, at a dinner (c. mid-1930s).
Teletype news release (dated “8/12/37”) pasted to rear reads:
“MRS. CHARLIE CHAN” ASKS SEPARATE MAINTENANCE
Charging that her husband, Warner Oland, better
known by movie fans as “Charlie Chan,” drank
so excessively that he “disregarded his duties
as a husband.” Mrs. Oland, shown with the movie
actor, in the above, sued at Santa Barbara,
Calif., for separate maintenance. She demanded
half of their $275,000 community property, and
$3,500 a month for support. They were married in
1908, and have no children.
News Photograph
Dated August 12, 1937
5 x 7 inches

Photographic portrait of Warner Oland made in
Rome, Italy during his European trip (c. July 1938).
Portrait Photograph
Fotoluxardo – Roma
c. July 1938
9 1/2 x 7 inches

Warner Oland at a dinner (c. mid-1930s). Teletype news
release (dated “8-6-38-4.30 AM”) pasted to rear reads:
“CHARLIE CHAN” GOES WEST
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN……ONLY A DAY AFTER THE PASSING OF
PEARL WHITE, TO WHOSE HEROINE HE HAD PLAYED THE VILLAIN
IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE MOVIES, WARNER OLAND, FAMOUS
PLAYER OF ORIENTAL PARTS ON THE SCREEN, DIED HERE
TODAY OF PNEUMONIA. OLAND’S MOST RECENT SUCCESSES
WERE IN FILMS IN WHICH HE PLAYED THE ROLE OF “CHARLIE
CHAN”, PHILOSOPHIZING CHINESE DETECTIVE.
News Photograph
Dated August 16, 1938
5 x 7 inches
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