August 2016
"What detective needs is great patience." (The Scarlet Clue)
1 Monday
Benson Fong, who portrayed Charlie Chan's number three son, Tommy, in six films,
dies in Los Angeles, California on this day in 1987.
WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: The Chinese Cat starring Sidney Toler. Please join us as we discuss this
film LIVE, watching it together via video tape or DVD!
Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time (First, we share a vintage
Charlie Chan radio program and then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!)
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday
Warner Oland, who portrayed Charlie Chan in seventeen films, dies of bronchial pneumonia
in Stockholm, Sweden, on this day in 1938.
7 Sunday
8 Monday
WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: Black Magic/Meeting at Midnight starring Sidney Toler. Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE,
watching it together via video tape or DVD!
Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time (First, we share a vintage
Charlie Chan radio program and then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!)
9 Tuesday
10 Wednesday
13 Saturday
14 Sunday
15 Monday
WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: The Jade Mask starring Sidney Toler. Please join us as we discuss this film LIVE,
watching it together via video tape or DVD!
Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time (First, we share a vintage
Charlie Chan radio program and then, following, we start our featured film at precisely 8:15!)
16 Tuesday
17 Wednesday
A special Invitational Performance of Charlie Chan at the Opera at the Metropolitan Opera
Festival at Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1967.
20 Saturday
21 Sunday
22 Monday
WEEKLY CHAT/FILM VIEWING: The Scarlet Clue starring Sidney Toler.
Please join us as we celebrate the birthday of Earl Derr Biggers and discuss this film LIVE, watching it
together via video tape or DVD!
Time: 7:30
p.m., Eastern Time (First, we share a vintage Charlie Chan radio program and then, following, we start our featured film
at precisely 8:15!)
23 Tuesday
24 Wednesday
Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, is born in Warren, Ohio, on this
day in 1884.
27 Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
Time: 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time (First, we share a vintage
Charlie Chan radio program and then, following, we start our featured films at precisely 8:15!)
30 Tuesday
31 Wednesday