I'm trying to think of a precedent

[womzilla]

Oh, of course: In the fine tradition of
Peter Lorre
Warner Oland
Yul Brenner
Lawrence Olivier.

Avatar, the Last Whitewasher.

Before.


After.




What century is this, again?

Comments

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

Let us not forget:
Katharine Hepburn and Walter Huston in Dragon Seed
Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy in The Mask of Fu Manchu
Anthony Quinn in Back to Bataan
Gale Sondergaard in The Letter
Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's
Mary Astor, Esther Williams and Akim Tamiroff in Fiesta
Jennifer Jones in Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Jennifer Jones and John Garfield in We Were Strangers
Spencer Tracy, Frank Morgan, John Garfield and Hedy Lamarr in Tortilla Flat
Hedy Lamarr and Joseph Schildkraut in Lady of the Tropics

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

how could I have overlooked Ava Gardner in Show Boat.

[men-in-full.livejournal.com]

Or Ricardo Montalban as the Japanese Kabuki performer Nakamura (http://media.photobucket.com/image/sayonara%20%252522ricardo%20montalban%252522/vejiita4eva/montalban.jpg) in Sayonara (1957.) IIRC, while it was acceptable for an Asian actress (Miiko Taka) to play a Japanese woman in love with an American (Marlon Brando), it was unacceptable for a white female character (Nakamura's love interest) to be paired with an Asian actor.

John Wayne

[(Anonymous)]

Genghis Khan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049092/).

-- non-anonymous Gary Farber
gary_farber@yahoo.com
http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com

Teahouse of the August Moon

[(Anonymous)]

Also, Marlon Brando as Sakini (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049830/)

-- non-anonymous Gary F., etc.