| re: Gene Nelson -- No "White Privilege" Benefit? | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 09:27 am EST 03/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Gene Nelson -- No "White Privilege" Benefit? - BroadwayTonyJ 12:18 am EST 03/08/21 | |
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| I appreciate your giving so much of your own history but your examples of successful non-white careers are not very convincing. Merle Oberon was not 100% Asian. her teenage mother (from Ceylon and of "mixed" background ) had been raped by Henry Selby (an Irish Anglo foreman). She was raised by a British couple in India. Keye Luke had a long career, indeed, but imagine having to play "number one son" and a succession of parts opposite a number of Anglo actors! Various Asian actors did have prominent parts in film like Anna Mae Wong. And yet, when a tailor made opportunity arose to play the lead as a Chinese peasant in THE GOOD EARTH, the part was given to the German Actress, Luise Rainer! A few years later she had to watch Katharine Hepburn play a Bryn Mar Chinese woman in DRAGON SEED. |
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