In this new version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, a young lady named Mei-li flees to America in the late 1950's when her father, a Chinese opera master, falls under persecution ...
Hammerstein's old Norman Rockwell whole someness and a new, Broadway, meretriciousness ... but he can't act. But Flower Drum Song's main trouble does not lie with its Oriental performers; like ...
Flower Drum Song challenged stereotypes by casting Asian ... This musical film, based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show, tells the story of Chinese immigrants adapting to life in ...