Flower Drum Song, the 1961 big-screen adaptation of the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, helped transform its young lead actress, Nancy Kwan, into a Hollywood star. But as she reveals in her ...

In “The World of Nancy Kwan,” a memoir by the pioneering Hollywood star, we hear from the real-life woman who played Suzie Wong. We learn an Asian actor getting to play an Asian role was a ...

In The World of Nancy Kwan, a memoir by the pioneer Hollywood star, we hear from the real-life woman who played Suzie Wong. We learn an Asian actor getting to play an Asian role was a victory back in ...

The cover of "The World of Nancy Kwan" and author Nancy Kwan. (Courtesy of Legacy Lit, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing and Robin L. Marshall/Getty Images) Nancy Kwan was only 20 years old ...

Hollywood icon Nancy Kwan recently sat down with Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show to discuss her massive career as well as her new book, "The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood's Asian ...

The 1960 romantic drama The World of Suzie Wong plucked its young star, Nancy Kwan, from total obscurity, transforming her into a glamorous star in high demand virtually overnight. Though Suzie ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad In “The World of Nancy Kwan,” a memoir by the pioneering Hollywood star, we hear from the real-life woman who played Suzie Wong. We learn an Asian ...

Demure, submissive and erotic, Suzie Wong is that bigger-than-life stereotype, that caricature Asian women grew up with in the U.S. We may have also secretly hoped to play that geisha-like image ...