Kwan responded to his phone call from London, asking, "How can I come? I'm in this show." To provide a pretext for Kwan's sudden hiatus from the touring production, Stark sent a cablegram to her superiors saying her father had become ill and had been hospitalized. In 1959, one month after Nuyen was selected for the film role and while Kwan was touring in Toronto, Stark told her to screen test again for the film. She moved to England to film the movie, leaving an opening for Kwan to ascend to the lead female role in the touring production.
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Nuyen won the title role in the upcoming movie because of her powerful portrayal of Suzie Wong during the tour. In a September 1960 interview with Associated Press Journalist Bob Thomas, she said, "I was bitterly disappointed, and I almost quit and went home when I didn't get the picture." Kwan did not receive the lead role because Stark believed she was too inexperienced at the time. Nuyen received the role and Kwan later took the place of Nuyen on Broadway. Paramount favored the eminent France Nuyen, who had been widely praised for her performance in the film South Pacific (1958). Though Stark and the male lead william Holden preferred Kwan, despite her somewhat apprehensive demeanor during the screen test, she did not get the role. In addition to her small supporting character role, Kwan became an understudy for the production's female lead, France Nuyen. When The World of Suzie Wong began to tour, Kwan was assigned the part of a bargirl. Kwan was at the ceremonies in Los Angeles at Hollywood Park, where the Asian community gathered to watch the handover of Hong Kong to the government of China.
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She's politically active as the spokeswoman for the Asian-American Voters Coalition, and touts a beauty product, Oriental Pearl Cream, in TV spots. He was a martial-arts master, fluent in Chinese, and became a stunt coordinator and actor before his untimely death.After returning to the US, Kwan appeared in numerous TV series, the NBC miniseries, Noble House (1988), and the CBS made-for-TV movie, Miracle Landing (1990). They returned to the US in 1979 so that her teenage son, Bernie Pock, could complete his education. She also acted in a spate of films made for Southeast Asian audiences, including "Fear" (1977) (aka Night Creature (1978)), which introduced her to filmmaker Norbert Meisel, who became her third husband. Divorced from her second husband, screenwriter David Giler, and with a young son from her first marriage to Austrian hotelier Peter Pock, Kwan intended to stay a year, but wound up staying a decade.As managing director of her own production company, she produced and directed dozens of commercials for the Southeast Asia market. Born in China to a Chinese father and British mother, Kwan spent the 1960s commuting between film roles in America and Europe (including the pilot for Hawaii Five-O (1968)), but faded from view in the West, when she returned to her native Hong Kong in 1972 to be with her critically ill father. She followed it the next year with the hit musical, Flower Drum Song (1961), and became one of Hollywood's most visible Asian actresses. 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).
Nancy Kwan was born on May 19, 1939, is Actress, Make Up Department, Producer.
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