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...innate realism of films didn't discourage early actors. In 1919, the year Richard Barthelmess played the sensitive "chink" in Broken Blossoms, the Danish actor Warner Oland played his first Chinese in The Lightning Raider. Oland looked no more Chinese than, say, Bob Keeshan, yet he was cast "yellow" dozens of times, including in four films with Wong, and culminating in 16 Charlie Chan movies. When Oland died, in 1938, Missouri-born Sidney Toler was tabbed to replace him; he played the sleuth in 22 films, until his death in 1947. Wong had played Fu Manchu's daughter...
...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...
...This is very exciting for all of us. The good aspects of the present building will be preserved and there will be so many great improvements,” said Sam Gale Rosen ’06, Vice President of the Cast...
Yesterday’s announcement of Man and Woman of the Year—Tim Robbins and Catherine Zeta-Jones—has been received with much excitement from the cast, especially in the wake of the recent renovations announcement (see related article, page...
According to Vice President of the Cast Samuel Gale Rosen ’06, this year’s musical, set in the frontier, centers on the adventures of “fumbling, yet dreamy Luke N Forglory...