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When Were You Born is a american film of genre Crime directed by William C. McGann released in USA on 18 june 1938 with Margaret Lindsay

When Were You Born (1938)

When Were You Born
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Released in USA 18 june 1938
Length 1h5
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Crime,    Romance
Rating58% 2.90192.90192.90192.90192.9019

When Were You Born is a 1938 murder mystery film starring Anna May Wong as an astrologer who helps the police. Each of the twelve principal characters was born under a different astrological sign.

Synopsis

On an ocean liner sailing from the Orient to San Francisco, Mei Lei Ming (Anna May Wong) gives fellow passenger Nita Kenton (Lola Lane) a reading. When Nita's boyfriend, importer Phillip Corey (James Stephenson), scoffs at her predictions, she informs him that he himself will die within 48 hours.

Actors

Margaret Lindsay

(Doris Kane)Anna May Wong

(Mei Lei Ming)Lola Lane

(Nita Kenton)Rosemary Lane

(Nita Kenton (Cancer))Jeffrey Lynn

(Davis)
And :
James Stephenson
Leonard Mudie
Charles C. Wilson
Olin Howland
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