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Barbara Jean Wong is a Actor American born on 3 march 1924 at Los Angeles (USA)
Barbara Jean Wong (March 3, 1924 – November 13, 1999) was an American actress and primarily a radio actress.
She was a fourth generation Chinese-American born in Los Angeles, California, to produce market owners Thomas and Maye Wong. She began her performance career at the age of five, as she could read and had a clear voice and was soon dubbed the Chinese-American Shirley Temple due to her long black hair curled into ringlets and her charming persona.
In 1937, as a voice actress, she began doing some programs for CBS. She played Judy Barton, one of the twins in the children's Christmas old time radio show The Cinnamon Bear. She was heard on several episodes of the Lux Radio Theater, Hallmark Playhouse/Hallmark Hall of Fame, Cavalcade of America, Three Thirds of a Nation and many other shows. Her biggest radio role was on the comedy show Amos 'n' Andy where she played Amos' daughter Arbadella.
She attended the University of Southern California (USC) and Columbia University to earn degrees in drama and English. After college, Jean (she used her middle name) began working in the movies and worked in 20 films including The Good Earth, The Man from Button Willow, and playing the part of Charlie Chan's Number Three daughter in the Charlie Chan movie Charlie Chan in Honolulu. Her last role was uncredited, a nurse in the epic motion picture, Love is a Many Splendored Thing. Her featured part movie career lasted from 1938–1955. In most of her movies, she was a backdrop, part of the scenery.
When Barbara Jean was married, she retired from acting and earned her teaching credentials from Cal State Los Angeles to begin serving her community as a teacher. She died of respiratory illness on November 13, 1999 in Tarzana, California, aged 75.
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Nationality USA
Birth 3 march 1924 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 13 november 1999 (at 75 years) at Tarzana (USA)
Birth 3 march 1924 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 13 november 1999 (at 75 years) at Tarzana (USA)
She was a fourth generation Chinese-American born in Los Angeles, California, to produce market owners Thomas and Maye Wong. She began her performance career at the age of five, as she could read and had a clear voice and was soon dubbed the Chinese-American Shirley Temple due to her long black hair curled into ringlets and her charming persona.
In 1937, as a voice actress, she began doing some programs for CBS. She played Judy Barton, one of the twins in the children's Christmas old time radio show The Cinnamon Bear. She was heard on several episodes of the Lux Radio Theater, Hallmark Playhouse/Hallmark Hall of Fame, Cavalcade of America, Three Thirds of a Nation and many other shows. Her biggest radio role was on the comedy show Amos 'n' Andy where she played Amos' daughter Arbadella.
She attended the University of Southern California (USC) and Columbia University to earn degrees in drama and English. After college, Jean (she used her middle name) began working in the movies and worked in 20 films including The Good Earth, The Man from Button Willow, and playing the part of Charlie Chan's Number Three daughter in the Charlie Chan movie Charlie Chan in Honolulu. Her last role was uncredited, a nurse in the epic motion picture, Love is a Many Splendored Thing. Her featured part movie career lasted from 1938–1955. In most of her movies, she was a backdrop, part of the scenery.
When Barbara Jean was married, she retired from acting and earned her teaching credentials from Cal State Los Angeles to begin serving her community as a teacher. She died of respiratory illness on November 13, 1999 in Tarzana, California, aged 75.
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, 1h33Directed by Ching Siu-tung, Raymond Lee
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Martial arts films, Wuxia films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Joey Wong, Yu Rongguang, Eddy Ko, Kingdom Yuen, Barbara Jean Wong, Wu Ma
Rating60%
Following Dongfang Bubai's apparent death in Swordsman II, the jianghu (martial artists' community) disintegrates into chaos as it lacks a dominant figure to serve as a de facto leader. Several imposters use Dongfang Bubai's name to rally supporters, form their own sects, and fight for power. One of Dongfang Bubai's devoted lovers, Xue Qianxun, rebuilds the Sun Moon Holy Cult by impersonating Dongfang Bubai.
The Man from Button Willow (1965)
, 1h21Origin USA
Genres Animation, Western
Actors Dale Robertson, Edgar Buchanan, Howard Keel, Barbara Jean Wong, Herschel Bernardi, Pinto Colvig
Roles Stormy
Rating54%
En 1869, Justin Eagle vit dans son ranch appelé «The Eagle’s Nest», près de la ville de Button Willow, en Californie. En plus d'être éleveur, Justin est un agent secret du gouvernement américain. Il agit pour contrecarrer les voyous qui commencent à pulluler dans l'Ouest. Il est envoyé à San Francisco pour retrouver le sénateur Freeman, qui a disparu alors qu'il combattait Montgomery Blaine et ses hommes de main. Ceux-ci forcent les colons à leur vendre leurs terres à bas prix, en sachant que ces terres sont de grande valeur, car elles doivent être traversées par des chemins de fer...
, 1h42Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jennifer Jones, William Holden, Keye Luke, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Richard Loo
Rating63%
The widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin (Jones) falls in love with the married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott (Holden) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Civil War in the late 1940s. Although they briefly find happiness together, she is ostracized by the greater Chinese community. After losing her position at the hospital, Suyin and her adopted daughter go to live with a friend while Mark is on an assignment during the Korean War. They write to each other constantly.
Trial (1955)
, 1h45Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, John Arthur Kennedy, Juano Hernández, Katy Jurado, John Hodiak
Roles Chinese Girl (uncredited)
Rating67%
Angel Chavez (Rafael Campos) is a Mexican American who lives in the small California town of San Juno. During an annual event called Bass Night held at the town beach, he wanders onto the beach, off-limits to Mexican Americans. There he meets a non-Hispanic girl from his high school class. After she suffers a heart attack and dies, Angel is arrested and charged with murder.
Chinatown at Midnight (1949)
, 1h7Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Tom Powers, Ray Walker, Charles Russell, Jacqueline deWit
Roles Betty Chang
Rating58%
The SF Police Department pursues a serial killer on the loose in San Francisco's Chinatown.
The Chinese Ring (1947)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Roland Winters, Warren Douglas, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Louise Currie, Philip Ahn
Roles Princess Mei Ling (as Jean Wong)
Rating57%
Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) is a private investigator living in San Francisco. One day a Chinese princess comes to visit him in his home. She has just arrived from the East by boat. The princess manages to give Chan’s butler Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland) an artifact - an ancient heirloom ring - before she is shot an killed by a poisoned arrow through the window. She leaves a note behind, with the name ”Captain K”. Chan calls for the police to investigate this murder. Bill Davidson (Warren Douglas) with the SFPD comes to Chan, but his friend, the reporter Peggy Cartwright (Louise Currie), also arrives uninvited to the scene.
Calcutta (1946)
, 1h23Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez, Lowell Gilmore, Benson Fong
Roles Mrs. Smith's Manicurist (uncredited)
Rating63%
Commercial pilot in India attempts to avenge friend's murder.
The Trap (1946)
, 1h2Directed by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung, Larry J. Blake, Kirk Alyn, Rita Quigley
Roles San Toy
Rating60%
Calamity ensues at the beach villa in Malibu, California, where Cole King's theatre ensemble resides, when one of the showgirls, Adelaide, is challenging Marcia, who is Cole's girl and the star of the show.
That Brennan Girl (1946)
, 1h35Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall, June Duprez, Frank Jenks, Charles Arnt
Roles Nightclub Singer (uncredited)
Rating63%
On Mother's Day, 1946, a woman known as Ziggy Brennan looks back on her life.
The Red Dragon (1945)
, 1h2Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong, Willie Best, Robert Emmett Keane, Barton Yarborough
Roles Iris Ling (as Jean Wong)
Rating62%
China (1943)
, 1h19Directed by John Farrow, Hal Walker, Oscar Rudolph, Harve Foster, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Richard Loo, Victor Sen Yung
Roles Nan Ti
Rating65%
In 1941, in Mei-Ki, China, war profiteer David Jones (Alan Ladd) narrowly escapes with his life when Chinese Captain Tao-Yuan-Kai arrests him for selling oil to the Japanese but releases him because he is American. Japanese aircraft bomb the town, and Jones drives toward Shanghai with his partner, Johnny Sparrow (William Bendix), who has brought with him an orphaned baby boy.
Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Aldrich, Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan, Gloria Holden, Donald Douglas
Roles Chinese Girl Given Opium
Rating56%
The film's opening scene is set in 1943 Japan. Reo Seki (J. Carrol Naish) is presented with the ashes of his dead son, Taro Seki (Tom Neal), and blames himself for the death.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
, 1h7Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Phyllis Brooks, Eddie Collins, John King, Claire Dodd
Rating66%
The film opens with Detective Chan rushing to the hospital to be with his daughter as she prepares to give birth to his first grandchild. While Charlie Chan waits at the hospital, his "number two" son Jimmy intercepts a message intended for Charlie about a murder on board the freighter Susan B. Jennings.