Marlene Dietrich

Shanghai Lily

Clive Brook

Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey

Anna May Wong

Hui Fei

Warner Oland

Mr. Henry Chang

Eugene Pallette

Sam Salt

Lawrence Grant

Reverend Carmichael

Louise Closser Hale

Mrs. Haggerty

Gustav von Seyffertitz

Eric Baum

Émile Chautard

Major Lenard

George Blagoi

Minor Role (uncredited)

Leonard Carey

Carey (uncredited)

George Chung

Chinese Soldier (uncredited)

Wong Chung

Chinese Officer Checking Passports (uncredited)

Jack Deery

British Officer at Shanghai (uncredited)

Herbert Evans

British Railway Officer (uncredited)

Willie Fung

Train Engineer (uncredited)

Tom Gubbins

Chinese Officer (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey

Peiping Ticket Agent (uncredited)

Claude King

Mr. Albright (uncredited)

James B. Leong

A Rebel (uncredited)

Miki Morita

Chinese Officer (uncredited)

Minoru Nishida

Li Fung (uncredited)

Victor Wong

Chinese Officer (uncredited)

Ura Mita

Chinese Woman (uncredited)

Josef von Sternberg

Director

Jules Furthman

Screenplay

Lee Garmes

Director of Photography

Travis Banton

Costume Design

Adolph Zukor

Executive Producer

Frank Sullivan

Editor

Hans Dreier

Art Direction

Karl Hajos

Original Music Composer

W. Franke Harling

Original Music Composer

Rudolph G. Kopp

Original Music Composer

John Leipold

Original Music Composer

James Wong Howe

Additional Photography

Richard Kollorsz

Set Designer

Harry D. Mills

Sound

Milton Bridenbecker

Assistant Camera

Roy Clark

Second Assistant Camera

Warner Cruze

Assistant Camera

Otto Dyar

Still Photographer

Junius Estep

Still Photographer

Daniel L. Fapp

Second Assistant Camera

Warren Lynch

Second Assistant Camera

Homer Plannette

Gaffer

Travis Banton

Costumer

René Hubert

Costumer

Herman Hand

Orchestrator

Adolph Zukor

Presenter

Tom Gubbins

Technical Advisor

Harry Hervey

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