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we all enjoyed the Philip Ahn post so much, here's some more photos of him looking Hot with former Hot & Vintage Movie Woman quarterfinalist Anna May Wong.

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Birthday remembrance - Philip Ahn #botd

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Philip Ahn and Anna May Wong with director Robert Florey on the set of Daughter of Shanghai (1937).

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"Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967) - George Roy Hill

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Korean American character actor Philip Ahn got plenty of work in the 1940s playing Japanese villains in Hollywood war films. In real life, his Korean family were mistakenly named enemy aliens by the US Government.

Ahn’s biographer explains, “During the widespread activism against Japanese colonial rule displayed by Korean immigrants, U.S. Governmental policies conflated Japanese and Koreans during pre-independence years. 

“Having been classified as subjects of Japan in the 1940 Alien Registration Act, Koreans became identified as ‘enemy aliens’ in the wake of America’s declaration of war again Japan. 

“Insulted and enraged, Koreans protested, demanding their reclassification, which would eventually occur when a January 1942 ruling by the U.S. Department of Justice exonerated them from enemy alien status.”

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Shock Corridor (1963) Samuel Fuller

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Voodoo Heartbeat (1973) - Lobby card set

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Philiph Ahn-Anna May Wong-Fred Kohler "Daughter of Shanghai" 1937, de Robert Florey.