American Experience
Season 2 Episode 14 - Forbidden City, USA
6.6 ?
1988
Documentary
Before WWII, San Francisco's Chinatown was a separate world, closed to outsiders, ruled by rigid homeland customs. But in the 1930s, second generation Chinese Americans defied cultural tradition to pursue their passion for American music and dance. They started careers as "Chinese Fred Astaires" and "Chinese Frank Sinatras" in one of the city's famous Chinatown night clubs, Forbidden City.
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Ballad of a Mountain Man
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Forbidden City, USA
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