Philip Ahn, one of the outstanding Chinese actors of Hollywood, speaks perfect English is familiar with French and several other languages, but knows less than a dozen words of the language of his race, Like Anna May Wong, with whom He appears in Paramount's "Daughter of Shanghai" he was born in Los Angeles while his parents Chang Ho Ahn and Helen Lee Ahn were in jhe Southern California city attending school, He made his debut as an extra but gradually worked up to important roles, His first real part was in "The General Died of Dawn."
In "Daughter of Shanghai" he enacts the role of a Chinese detective in the employ of the United States government,
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