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Anna May Wong Woman's Honor -Juanita Hall and France Nuyen - If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true? France Nuyen (young girl), after Anna May Wong, was the second major Asian actress (35 years later) to become a star in Hollywood, she was a tremendous success opposite William Shatner in the title role of a prostitute in "The World of Suzie Wong" on Broadway in 1958. She had to learn her lines phonetically. She began shooting the film version when she was suddenly replaced by producer Ray Stark by Nancy Kwan.(IMDB)

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Music

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• Rodgers & Hammerstein
• musical
• broadway
• hollywood
• tropical
• WWII
• Juanita Hall

[xelanesqueHQ]

Who sang this? Anna May Wong? I know its not Juanita Hall singing

[AnnaMayWongSociety]

@xelanesqueHQ I do not recall her name but at the insistence of Richard Rogers, the woman who played Bloody Mary in the London stage production is the voice.

[rlee1976]

If you listen to Juanita's real voice singing this, it's really crazy how different this version sounds - her voice is NOTHING as young-sounding as this, it's a MAJOR MAJOR difference.... damn idiots had to dub in someone else's voice.

[AnnaMayWongSociety]

@rlee1976 I agree with you but it is not all bad. Richard Rogers was the one that demanded the voice from the London Stage cast and that is what you hear.

[lassley]

Ms. France Nuyen should be accredited as the first major Eurasian actress in Hollywood Motion Pictures. Immediately after her comes Ms. Nancy Kwan, (1/2 Chinese, 1/2 British Eurasian actress who starred in Suzie Wong). However, the first Eurasian actor was before these ladies, Mr. Yul Brynner. Hey, these Eurasian film stars were a pretty good-looking bunch, wouldn't you say?

[AnnaMayWongSociety]

@riverdale999 Are you feeling some inner guilt watching this? France was 19 when this was shot and John Kerr 27...

[Tripicality]

Oh he's so handsome... :3

[FluffMaster101]

I came here from Napoleon Dynamite.

[kresjulie1119]

oh my gosh the e-mart song!!!!! i love this song

[mamaluvify]

i dont know what the big deal is?

[DeadlyWaffel]

I THINK I HEARD THE INSTERMENTAL ON PBS KIDS

[AnnaMayWongSociety]

@dagcentral101 20 plus years ago I would have been closer to agreeing with the last part of your comment however today "Asian women in cinema being portrayed as" is all I can agree with for what they are portrayed as today is much wider yet not deeper then your narrow mind focus. Speaking of minds, I would show your doc your comment for it says so much about you and so little about this romantic scene involving a near equally shared feeling of the moment including most viewers.

[dagcentral101]

@AnnaMayWongSociety No, it's how he is leering at her...I love the movie, but this scene is a little mail-order-bride/ sex tour. Ugh, so sick of Asian women in cinema being portrayed as compliant, etc.