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Happy New Year!
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WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: We begin our Charlie Chan Film Tour for 2026 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: 7:45 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.
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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.
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: 7:45 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.
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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.
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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: 7:45 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.
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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).
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The first installment of the first Charlie Chan mystery, The House Without a Key, by Earl Derr Biggers, is published in The Saturday Evening Post on this day in 1925.
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.
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WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: Charlie Chan’s Chance, a recreation of this “lost” Charlie Chan film with an introduction by John Cork. We will share this fine recreation LIVE, watching it together via personal video…or online, if available! We will also be celebrating the birthday of J, Carrol Naish, Charlie Chan in the TV crime drama series The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, AND we will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chan!
Time: 7:45 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.
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Chinese New Year
新年快樂
Year of the Horse
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Kamiyama Sojin, who would portray Charlie Chan in The Chinese Parrot (1927), is born in Sendai, Japan, on this day in 1884.
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