The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Elsa Bannister

      Rita Hayworth

    • Michael O'Hara

      Orson Welles

    • Arthur Bannister

      Everett Sloane

    • George Grisby

      Glenn Anders

    • Sidney Broome

      Ted De Corsia

    • judge

      Erskine Sanford

    • Goldie

      Gus Schilling

    • Galloway, district attorney

      Carl Frank

    • Jake Jorgenson

      Louis Merrill

    • Bessie

      Evelyn Ellis

    • hansom cab driver

      Harry Shannon

    • [Li]

      Won Show Chong

    • [yacht captain]

      Sam Nelson

    • [woman]

      Elizabeth Jones

    • [bartender]

      Peter Cusanelli

    • [police lieutenant]

      Joe Granby

    • [policeman]

      Al Eben

    • [policeman]

      Norman Thomson

    • [policeman]

      Eddie Coke

    • [policeman]

      Harry Strang

    • [waiter]

      Gerald Pierce

    • [truck driver]

      Maynard Holmes

    • [guard]

      Jack Baxley

    • [guard]

      Edward Peil

    • [guard]

      Heenan Elliott

    • [old woman]

      Dorothy Vaughan

    • [port steward/policeman/Peters]

      Philip Morris

    • [policeman]

      Steve Benton

    • [policeman]

      Milton Kibbee

    • [toughie/policeman]

      Philip Van Zandt

    • [reporter]

      William Alland

    • [reporter]

      Alvin Hammer

    • [reporter]

      Mary Newton

    • [reporter]

      Robert Gray

    • [reporter]

      Byron Kane

    • [clerk]

      John Elliott

    • [jury foreman]

      Charles Meakin

    • [school teacher]

      Jessie Arnold

    • [woman]

      Mabel Smaney

    • [man]

      George 'Shorty' Charello

    • [man]

      Vernon Cansino

    • [Chinese girl]

      Doris Chan

    • [Chinese girl]

      Billy Louie

    • [garage attendant]

      Joe Recht

    • [ticket seller]

      Jean Wong

    • [ticket taker]

      Artane Wong

    • [Chinese woman]

      Grace Lem

    • [Chinese man]

      Preston Lee

    • [cab driver]

      Joe Palma

    • [district attorney's assistant]

      Richard Wilson

    • [crew hand - allegedly]

      Errol Flynn

    • [old woman]

      Edythe Elliott

• Credits

  • Direction:

    • Production [Director]

      Orson Welles

    • Assistant Director

      Sam Nelson

    • [Script Supervisor]

      Dorothy Cormack

    Production:

    • Production Company

      Columbia Pictures Corporation

    • [Executive Producer]

      Harry Cohn

    • Production

      Orson Welles

    • Associate Producer

      Richard Wilson

    • Associate Producer

      William Castle

    • [Studio]

      Columbia Studios

    Writing:

    • Screen Play

      Orson Welles

    • Story based on a novel by

      Sherwood King

    Photography:

    • Director of Photography

      Charles Lawton Jr

    • [Fill-in Director of Photography]

      Rudolph Maté

    • [Camera Operator]

      Irving Klein

    • [Assistant Camera]

      Donald Roy Cory

    • [Assistant Cameraman]

      Kline, Richard

    • [Grip]

      Don Murphy

    Stills:

    • [Stills]

      Robert Coburn

    • [Stills]

      Eddy Cronenweth

    Special Effects:

    • [Special Effects]

      Lawrence Butler

    Editing:

    • Film Editor

      Viola Lawrence

    Design:

    • Art Director

      Stephen Goossón

    • Art Director

      Sturges Carne

    • Set Decorations

      Wilbur Menefee

    • Set Decorations

      Herman Schoenbrun

    Costumes:

    • Gowns

      Jean Louis

    Make-up:

    • [Make-up]

      Robert J. Schiffer

    • [Hairstylist]

      Helen Hunt

    Music:

    • Musical Score by

      Heinz Roemheld

    • Song 'Please Don't Kiss Me' by

      Allan Roberts

    • Song 'Please Don't Kiss Me' by

      Doris Fisher

    • Musical Director

      Stoloff, M.W.

    • [Orchestration]

      Herschel Burke Gilbert

    Sound:

    • Sound Recording

      Lodge Cunningham

    Visitor to set:

    • Film Industry Visitor

      Glenn Ford