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...Wong had played featured roles in A pictures, and leads in B's. But could Wong win a major part in the biggest Chinese-set film yet to be made? She yearned to play O-Lan, the heroine of Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, a best-seller that won the American novelist the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Buck's thoughts were similar to Wong's. As Anthony B. Chan relates in his book Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961, Buck had lunch with an MGM executive, some time before The Good Earth was to be cast. "I said I hoped they would use Chinese actors in the leading parts," she recalled, "to which he replied that this was impossible because of the American star system." Wong, who had just turned 30, tested several times for O-lan, meeting with skepticism and animosity. The skeptic was Albert Lewin, the MGM producer in charge...
...years later, Wong did appear in the adaptation of a Pearl Buck novel, The Patriot, on Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse (successor to his Mercury Theatre on the Air), supported by future Citizen Kane co-stars Ray Collins and Everett Sloane (as Chiang Kai-shek!). Wong played Peony, a servant in the house of the mandarin-turned-revolutionary I-Wan (Welles). Again she gets star billing; again she has a small role...
...this April 1939 radio play the author and the guest star enjoyed a few moments of chat. "Delighted to meet you, Miss Buck," Wong says. "As a Chinese I naturally have been intensely interested in your books on China." Did Buck realize how probing and poignant Wong's interest had been...
...support the mission there. But I do not back the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard and the Reserve simply because the Pentagon wants to save a buck...