Constance Talmadge in East is West (1922) December 9, 2014 · by Tory Lowe · in A Shanghai Cinderella (renamed East is West, 1918) by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer, Constance Talmadge, Promotional Materials, Race. · This advertisement for the first film adaptation of East is West, which starred Constance Talmadge as Ming Toy, appeared in Exhibitors’ Herald in 1922.