Suzie Wong is that bigger-than-life stereotype, that caricature that Asian women grew up with in the U.S., writes Associated ...

Nancy Kwan was only 20 years old when she was picked for the lead in the 1960 film "The World of Suzie Wong." The film, as ...

In her memoir The World of Nancy Kwan, the actress who was born in Hong Kong tells her story of being Asian in Hollywood in a different era.

Kwan was born in Hong Kong in 1939 ... This is my story,'' she writes in the prologue. Her book is speckled with the big names of that era, Pat Boone, Katherine Hepburn, Dick Van Dyke.