About this title: In cinema's first few decades it was common for Caucasians to play Asian roles, and here Norma Talmadge is San San, the daughter of a Chinese mandarin (in fact, no Asians hold any major roles in this film). San San is in love with John Worden (Thomas Meighan), the secretary of the U.S. consulate, and they secretly marry. But while Worden is away, her status-seeking father gives her to the emperor (L. Rogers Lytton). But when the emperor finds out she has a child, he has her killed. The little girl, Toy (played as an adult by Talmadge), grows up and escapes from China to be a Red Cross nurse ...
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Description: Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Allyn Warren, L. Rogers Lytton, Reid Hamilton. New in new packaging. 1918 Run time: 55. San-san, an Asian girl, secretly marries a visiting American official. In her husband's absence, her father gives her to the emperor, who kills her when she has the American's "white" child. Norma Talmadge plays the dual role of San-san and her daughter Toy, who is raised in the Emperor's palace. read more
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