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Phantom of Chinatown Sun Apr 18 2021 at 23:37:44 The success of Charlie Chan on the printed page and in movies led to imitators. Peter Lorre donned yellowface 1 to play John P. Marquand's Mr. Moto, a Japanese-American sleuth whose third film actually crossed over with the "Charlie Chan-iverse." 2 Hugh Wiley penned twenty stories about Jimmy Lee Wong, a Chinese-American detective modeled on Chan, but actually handled in a somewhat less stereotypical manner. Monogram Studios made a half-dozen Mr. Wong pictures, teaming a made-up Boris Karloff with gruff Grant Withers as his associate, Detective...

Sun Apr 18 2021 at 23:37:44 The success of Charlie Chan on the printed page and in movies led to imitators. Peter Lorre donned yellowface 1 to play John P. Marquand's Mr. Moto, a Japanese-American sleuth whose third film actually crossed over with the "Charlie Chan-iverse." 2 Hugh Wiley penned twenty stories about Jimmy Lee Wong, a Chinese-American detective modeled on Chan, but actually handled in a somewhat less stereotypical manner. Monogram Studios made a half-dozen Mr. Wong pictures, teaming a made-up Boris Karloff with gruff Grant Withers as his associate, Detective Street. When Karloff...

The makeup of the cast carries extra weight given that  Kung Fu is a reimagining of the 1972 television show of the same name by Ed Spielman, which followed the story of the half-Chinese, half-white Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine, a white actor. The new adaptation arrives at a time when calls for an end to Hollywood’s whitewashing of roles have gotten louder. In recent years, a pattern of white actors cast as Asian characters in particular—from Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in  Doctor Strange to Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the live-a...

SEVERAL members of Bradford’s pantomime Sunbeams - the junior dance troupe established by theatre impressario and Alhambra founder Francis Laidler - went on to enjoy a professional career in entertainment. But only one made it in Hollywood. That was Pat Paterson, the Frizinghall girl who appeared in films in the 1930s and 40s, starring alongside Hollywood heavyweights such as Spencer Tracy. Last week we featured a scrapbook of cuttings charting Pat’s rise to fame, which had been lovingly created by her mother. The newspaper and magazine clippings, now over 80 years old, include glam...