Happy Birthday Nancy Kwan

Cunt.

Fuck you both.

Michelle Kwan's mother.

She was not the first Asian superstar.

I'm told that it's hard to tell how old most orientals are.

OP: I love the music of Richard Rodgers, so of course I love this number. Nancy Kwan is dubbed (all four of her), but she’s lovely, and the split screen effect is cute. I feel R&H deserve a lot of credit for bringing non-white characters into musicals in the 1940s, even if they used what are now considered stereotypes to present the characters and disregarded actors’ nationalities in casting. That said, Flower Drum Song probably can no longer be performed (unlike South Pacific), because the stereotypes are so strong, including in the music, particularly some of the orchestrations.

Don't show that video to the non-binaries. It's exclusionary.

We certainly wouldn't want to cheapen the Asian culture R6.

I always watch one of her movies during Kwanzaa.

I can picture Miss Lindsey re-enacting that scene in front of his dressing table every night.

The beautiful Nancy Kwan! Happy Birthday!

Pewl Cweam.

A measly 12 responses for Miss Kwan's birthday?! WTF?! Even friggin' Gale Storm got 200 posts on her birthday. Anti-Asian sentiment is real!

[quote] The first Asian super star.

Excuse me?

R14, are you also R2?

[quote][R14], are you also [R2]?

No.

The woman absolutely dazzled in flats and capris!

I have the "Flower Drum Song" DVD signed by her.

Don’t mess with Nancy. She gave Sharon Tate a kick in the cunt bone.

Those songs were written for ME, and I sang 'em 8 times a week

Loved her in "On A Clear Day You Kwan See Forever".

OP, her name is Michelle Kwan, you dumbass, and she's only forty.

R21 you forgot "Bridge Over The River Kwan".

A star, certainly. But a superstar in the same sense as Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee? Not quite.

Dong, dong, you're Suzie Wong...

She was a triumph in Kwan Kwan.

Her son died of the AIDS.

R27, her son looked very different from what I imagined. He was straight?

Way to bring the room down R27

Stay off the west side!

Her son had the Gay Kwancer.

She had major anger issues. They're detailed in the documentary The Wrath of Kwan.

Oh My!

[quote] The Wrath of Kwan.

Shouldn't that be Wath of Kwan?

Happy 83rd birthday, Nancy!

Ancient Chinese Sewket: PERWL KWEAM!!

[quote]The first Asian super star.

Um, no.

Today is Asian night on TCM. Next up (I'm not making this up) "Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood".

Rejoice! The long-awaited Blu-ray of "Flower Drum Song" comes out on May 24.

So sad to read that her son contracted aids from his wife, who got it from a blood transfusion.

Aside from that, I knew a drag queen who used I Enjoy Being a Girl as part of her act. Funny as hell.

I love my DL brothers. You all keep me laughing all the way to the end of this thread with your responses. This whole thread deserves a big W&W.

We knew a fabulous eldersister who, whenever she saw an Ornamental sister, would say "Anna May Wong"

[quote] Today is Asian night on TCM. Next up (I'm not making this up) "Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood".

Why would you think that it doesn't still exist? Do blacks have exclusive rights to racism claims? You don't know much about film history.