January 2024 Calendar

E.L. Park as Charlie Chan in Behind That Curtain.

1 Monday

Happy New Year!

2  Tuesday

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING:  We begin our Charlie Chan Film Tour for 2022 with Behind That Curtain. E.L. Park appears briefly as Charlie Chan and we are treated to an early “talkie” appearance by Boris Karloff.  Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE, watching it together via personal video…or online, if available!

Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time.  First, we share arrivals and greetings along with either open dialogue or a possible short “extra” presentation. Then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!

Place: Our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room.

3  Wednesday

4  Thursday

5  Friday

6  Saturday

7  Sunday

8  Monday

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING:  Eran Trece, “There Were Thirteen,” the Spanish language version of the “lost” Charlie Chan Carries On, starring Manuel Arbo as Charlie Chan.  Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE, watching it together via personal video…or online, if available!

Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time.  First, we share arrivals and greetings along with either open dialogue or a possible short “extra” presentation. Then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!

Place: Our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room.

9  Tuesday

10  Wednesday

11  Thursday

12  Friday

Keye Luke, who portrayed Charlie Chan’s number one son, Lee, in twelve Chan films and one Mr. Moto movie, dies in Whittier, California on this day in 1991.

13  Saturday

14  Sunday

Layne Tom, Jr., who played three different Chan sons in three different Charlie Chan films, Charlie Chan at the Olympics, Charlie Chan in Honolulu, and Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise, passes away in Huntington Beach, California on this day in 2015.

15  Monday

Martin Luther King Day

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: The Black Camel starring Warner Oland in the oldest existing picture from the Charlie Chan film series proper.  Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE, watching it together via personal video…or online, if available!

Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time.  First, we share arrivals and greetings along with either open dialogue or a possible short “extra” presentation. Then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!

Place: Our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room.

16  Tuesday

17  Wednesday

18  Thursday

19  Friday

20  Saturday

21  Sunday

J. Carrol Naish, who would play Charlie Chan in The New Adventures of Charlie Chan television series (1957-58), is born in New York, New York, on this day in 1896.  He also played Gangor the snake charmer in Charlie Chan at the Circus (1935).

22  Monday

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: We celebrate the birthday of J. Carrol Naish who portrayed Charlie Chan in the TV crime Drama, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, as we view and discuss TWO episodes: The Rajput Ruby and The Final Curtain, sharing these adventures LIVE, watching them together via personal video…or online, if available!

Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time.  First, we share arrivals and greetings along with either open dialogue or a possible short “extra” presentation. Then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!

Place: Our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room.

23  Tuesday

24  Wednesday

J. Carrol Naish, who portrayed Charlie Chan in The New Adventures of Charlie Chan television series, dies in La Jolla, California, on this day in 1973.

25  Thursday

26  Friday

27  Saturday

28  Sunday

29  Monday

WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: Charlie Chan in London starring Warner Oland.  Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE, watching it together via personal video…or online, if available!

Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time.  First, we share arrivals and greetings along with either open dialogue or a possible short “extra” presentation. Then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!

Place: Our Charlie Chan Family Chat Room.

30  Tuesday

Kamiyama Sojin, who would portray Charlie Chan in The Chinese Parrot (1927), is born in Sendai, Japan, on this day in 1884.

31  Wednesday