Hollywood star James Shigeta and Hong Kong star Pat Ting Hung
I was happy to find this little surprise in the May 1962 issue of Screenland. A scan of the original article is available here.
Pat Ting Hung Admits Admiration for American-Japanese Star
Pat Ting Hung, who doesn't have an intimate boyfriend yet, declares that she has found her ideal man. "But", she says, "it is a pity that I don't have the chance to meet him. I will try to find the chance."
Who is this man?
If you are a patron of American movies you may have seen "Bridge to the Sun", starring Carol Baker and James Shigeta. And James is the man Pat talks about. And he will appear on the Hollywood screen again in "Flower Drum Song".
Pat has seen "Bridge to the Sun" three times just to see James, and she says that she will do the same with "Flower Drum Song".
She also has learned, from different sources, that James is only twenty-five, unmarried, and doesn't even have an intimate girl friend. She herself is only twenty and doesn't have a boyfriend too.
But, the only thing is, does James know that he has such an admirer in Hong Kong?
To see why Ting Hung took such a fancy to James Shigeta, check out this video tribute which screened at the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
9 comments:
It's always cool to find out that even stars have crushes on other movie people! :b
Yes, it is! And it's a much more pleasant way of acknowledging them as regular folk than by digging through their dirty laundry.
I think the only Pat Ting Hung film I've seen is Princess Iron Fan.
(btw, you are the 1st 2 Google hits on her!)
She's in Last Woman of Shang and that's on my to-watch list.
She is so lovely
-- Glenn, it's easy to overlook Pat. I only started to notice her in the pages of Southern Screen. Of the 32 films she made for Shaw Brothers, only 10 have been released on DVD.
It's funny... while Peter Chen Ho is often associated with Lin Dai or Li Ching or Lily Ho, it's actually Pat who was his most frequent leading lady, all the way from 1959 to 1969. But you wouldn't know, because none of those films have been released. :(
-- Andrew, yep... she's a cutie. I'll try to find something else about her to post.
Dave
This might not be related to this topic. But there's the whole movie
of a gem on Youku
It is Hong Kong Tokyo Hawaii,
the Cathay movie starring Yau Man ...
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjE2MDA2NzA4.html
I learn about this from Tang Siu Yu's blog
(Yes, Tang was that younger brother of Chan Po Chi in For Better or Worse)
webbburt
Many thanks for the link, Webbburt! I see that the other two films in the trilogy are up there as well. I'm looking forward to watching them all. :)
Too bad Shaw Brothers didn't have their own cross-cultural romance series, starring Ting Hung and James Shigeta of course!
finally i found James Shigeta here,thanks again!
Hi Shao Xin! Glad you found him here. :D
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