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Nancy Kwan Ka-shen ( Chinese: 關家蒨; Jyutping: Gwaan1 Gaa1sin6; born May 19, 1939) [1] is a Chinese-American actress. In addition to her personality and looks, her career benefited from Hollywood 's casting of more Asian roles in the 1960s, especially in comedies. She was considered an Eastern sex symbol in the 1960s .
Nancy Kwan. Actress: The World of Suzie Wong. At just 18, Nancy Kwan was studying dance with England's Royal Ballet School, when she was spotted by producer Ray Stark, who tested her and gave her the starring role of a free-spirited Hong Kong prostitute who captivates artist William Holden in The World of Suzie Wong (1960).
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Nancy Kwan. Actress: The World of Suzie Wong. At just 18, Nancy Kwan was studying dance with England's Royal Ballet School, when she was spotted by producer Ray Stark, who tested her and gave her the starring role of a free-spirited Hong Kong prostitute who captivates artist William Holden in The World of Suzie Wong (1960). She followed it the next year with the hit musical, Flower Drum Song ...
- Actress, Make-Up Department, Producer
- May 19, 1939
May 22, 2014 · Oscar Profile #187: Nancy Kwan. Born May 19, 1939 in Hong Kong to Cambridge educated Chinese architect Kwan Wing Hong and his English wife, Marquita Scott, Nancy (AKA Ka Shen) Kwan is an internationally celebrated Eurasian actress and producer. Two years after her birth, as World War II escalated, Kwan’s parents divorced and her mother ...
May 6, 2021 · Nancy Kwan recently looked back at her years as a pioneering Asian actress in Hollywood in the 1960s, as well as making films in the Philippines in the 1970s. ... Ruben V. Nepales is an award ...
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She truly is Hong Kong's gift to Hollywood. Bathing Beauty at age 2. Kwan Ka Shen () was born on 19 May 1939 in Hong Kong, the "Fragrant Harbor" that was a British crown colony on the coast of China. Like the wonderful British/Chinese city of her birth, she is of mixed heritage. Her Chinese father, Kwan Wing Hong, was a successful Cambridge ...
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