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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Paul Muni</title>
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		<title>Ethnicity in Film: Ramon Novarro</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Ethnicity in Film: Luise Rainer, Nancy Kwan
The issue of ethnicity and movie roles came up to me  a few years ago, while I was working on a biography of Mexican-born actor Ramon Novarro (above), Beyond Paradise. I&#8217;d read much about white performers playing non-white roles, but basically nothing about non-white actors playing white roles. Yet, back in those days it wasn&#8217;t that uncommon. Although Novarro, for one, had a  Mediterranean look, he clearly had some Indian blood as well.  Dolores del Rio and Sessue Hayakawa were a couple of other non-white performers who played a varied of ethnicities &#8212; including Caucasian types &#8212; in their Hollywood films.
In Novarro&#8217;s case, his Mexican background and mixed ethnicity didn&#8217;t prevent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnicity in Film: Luise Rainer, Nancy Kwan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Paul Muni, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth

The ethnic controversy surrounding the casting of  Gérard Depardieu as  Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou&#8217;s The Other Dumas reminded me of Arthur Dong&#8217;s  2007 documentary Hollywood Chinese, which discusses how Caucasian actors usually played major Chinese roles in American movies up to the not-too-distant past. Among those featured in Hollywood Chinese, whether in clips or as talking heads or both, are Paul Muni, Peter Sellers, Nancy Kwan, Luise Rainer, Katharine Hepburn, Turhan Bey, Joan Chen, Ang Lee, Christopher Lee, Sidney Toler, and, inevitably, Warner Oland, the most famous Dr. Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan (for those who know their film history).
At a panel discussion held after the  Los Angeles&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Bryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Bryan, who played ingenues in several Warner Bros. productions of the late 1930s, died on April 8 at her home in Pebble Beach, California, following a long illness. She was 90.
The Los Angeles-born (on June 11, 1918) Jane O&#8217;Brien had her name changed to Jane Bryan after landing a Warners contract in the mid &#8217;30s. 
 Bryan&#8217;s most notable role at the studio was as Paul Muni&#8217;s mistress in We Are Not Alone (1939), directed by Edmund Goulding. Apart from that, she was usually seen as forgettable  sweet young things, supporting Bette Davis in Marked Woman (1937), Kid Galahad (1937), The Sisters (1938), and The Old Maid (1939); Edward G. Robinson in A Slight Case of Murder (1938); [...]]]></description>
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