From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Lotus Long born Lotus Pearl Shibata July 18 1909 September 14 1990 was an American actress Long was born in New Jersey to a father of Japanese ancestry and a mother of Hawaiian ancestry She came to Southern California during the 1920s to act in Hollywood films and usually portrayed ethnic Asian female characters in supporting roles She used the name Lotus Long for stage and film Because of her adopted surname people generally assumed that she was of Chinese ancestry something she later relied on to avoid mass incarceration in American internment camps with other persons of Japanese ancestry both legal permanent residents and American citizens during World War II She appeared in the MGM docudrama Eskimo 1933 as wife of the main character Under the stage name Lotus Long as Moonflower in the 1934 film The Mysterious Mr Wong and as the murder victim Princess Lin Hwa in 1939s Mr Wong in Chinatown She also starred alongside Keye Luke in Phantom of Chinatown as Win Len Dr Bentons secretary whereas Keye Luke played Mr Wong this time known as Detective James Lee Wong She was also credited under the name Karen Sorrell in the films Flight into Nowhere 1938 starring Jack Holt and Mysterious Mr Moto 1938 starring Peter Lorre She was uncredited as a native girl in the film The Real Glory 1939 starring Gary Cooper and David Niven One of her more infamous roles would be as Tokyo Rose in Lew Landers film Tokyo Rose 1946 which also starred Keye Luke Edwin Luke Richard Loo Byron Barr and Osa Massen Long had one writing and producing credit for the film The Tahitian 1956 made with her husband James Knott The Tahitian was filmed on location with a largely native cast In Timothy Taus short film biopic Keye Luke Lotus Long is portrayed by Mei Melancon who is also of mixed ancestry Japanese Chinese and French and who was inspired by the reallife figure of Tokyo Rose Iva Toguri to get into acting
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