Lotus Long
Actor, Film actor
1909 – 1990
Who was Lotus Long?
Lotus Long was an American actress. She was born Lotus Pearl Shibata 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 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 1939's Mr. Wong in Chinatown. She also starred alongside Keye Luke in Phantom of Chinatown as Win Len, Dr. Benton's 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 to Nowhere starring Jack Holt and Mysterious Mr.
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- Born
- Jul 18, 1909
Atlantic City - Also known as
- Lotus Pearl Shibata
- Lotus
- Karen Sorrell
- Spouses
- James Knott
(1933 - 1989/06/25)
- James Knott
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 14, 1990
Orange County
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on July 23, 2013
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