History Trivia / TheWorldOfSuzieWong

* NamesTheSame:
** The name of the actress who plays Suzie's friend Gwennie Lee? Jacqui Chan. For this reason, she went by Jacqueline Chan later in her career.
** The titular character shares the same name with Henry Wong's younger sister in ''Anime/DigimonTamers.''

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There are differing reasons for why France Nuyen was dropped from the lead role. Some say she was behaving too erratically during Marlon Brando's affair with another woman. Another source said she had gained weight from overreating and couldn't fit into her costumes - and the director didn't want to wait for her to lose it. Others say she became pregnant. And another source says she had a row with producer Ray Stark. As noted above, the lesser known Nancy Kwan was the favourite for the part, but the studio preferred France Nuyen - so they may have just been looking for any chance to get rid of her.

* ThoseTwoActors: Original Robert and Suzie - William Shatner and France Nuyen - later worked together on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and an episode of ''Series/KungFu''.

* NamesTheSame: The name of the actress who plays Suzie's friend Gwennie Lee? Jacqui Chan. For this reason, she went by Jacqueline Chan later in her career.

* {{Jossed}}: A girl in Hong Kong called Wong Yuk-lan changed her name to Suzie and claimed to have been the inspiration for the character. Richard Mason however said that Suzie was based off several girls he met in Hong Kong.

* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** Nancy Kwan plays a poor prostitute who makes up stories about being rich. In reality she had quite a privileged upbringing.
** Suzie Wong was fully Chinese, but her actress Nancy Kwan was actually half-Chinese, half-Caucasian, due to having a Chinese father and a Caucasian mother, and in fact she was given mild {{Yellowface}} to look more Chinese. This is especially HilariousInHindsight (although perhaps hilarious in a "cringe" way) when one considers that the exact opposite happened in a previous film featuring Creator/WilliamHolden in a interracial relationship with a woman of Chinese ancestry set in Hong Kong, ''Film/LoveIsAManySplendoredThing'', where his love interest was described as "Eurasian", seemingly to cover the fact that she was played by the very much Caucasian Creator/JenniferJones in very obvious yellowface.

* TheOtherMarty: As noted elswhere, Suzie was origially going to be played France Nuyen, who had already played her onstage, before she was dropped for the production due to unspecific reasons (see UrbanLegendOfZelda below) and replaced with Nancy Kwan. Several scenes in Hong Kong had already been shot with Nuyen as Suzie, and had to be redone with Kwan.

* DearNegativeReader: Nancy Kwan responded to the criticism of playing to the AsianHookerStereotype with:

* FakeNationality: Nancy Kwan and Jacqueline Chan were of Chinese descent (though Nancy was only half), Yvonne Shima (Minnie Ho) was Japanese-Canadian.

* TheOtherMarty: Several scenes in Hong Kong had already been shot with France Nuyen as Suzie, and had to be redone with Nancy Kwan.

** Richard Mason, who had written several screenplays himself, was hoping [[SelfAdaptation to write the film adaptation of his novel]]. But he ultimately wasn't asked.

* ThoseTwoActors: Original Robert and Suzie - William Shatner and France Nuyen - later worked together on ''Series/StarTrek'' and an episode of ''Series/KungFu''.

* IAmNotSpock: Even after doing about fifty other films, Nancy Kwan still got letters about ''Suzie Wong''. People would frequently confuse her with Suzie, and even call her father "Mr. Wong", much to his displeasure.

* NamesTheSame: The name of the actress who plays Suzie's friend Gwennie Lee? Jacqui Chan.

** The scene where Suzie's dress gets torn off was originally filmed with Nancy Kwan wearing a full slip. The director found such a garment too unrealistically modest - so he insisted on Nancy wearing the half-slip and bra - to her displeasure. After getting coached by producer Ray Stark, she showed up on set aloofly wearing the half-slip as if nothing had happened.

* IAmNotSpock: Even after doing about fifty other films, Nancy Kwan still got letters about ''Suzie Wong''. People would frequently confuse her with Suzie, and even call her father "Mr Wong".
* IronyAsSheIsCast: Nancy Kwan plays a poor prostitute who makes up stories about being rich. In reality she had quite a privileged upbringing.

* OrphanedReference: Suzie's broken English in the film comes from her original actress France Nuyen - who had limited English and learned her lines in the play phonetically. Nancy Kwan however was Eurasian and spoke perfect English.

* UnderageCasting: Suzie Wong is meant to be in her twenties, but Nancy Kwan was only eighteen.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There are differing reasons for why France Nuyen was dropped from the lead role. Some say she was behaving too erratically during Marlon Brando's affair with another woman. Another source said she had gained weight from overreating and couldn't fit into her costumes - and the director didn't want to wait for her to lose it. Others say she became pregnant. And another source says she had a row with producer Ray Stark.

** Richard Mason, who had written several screenplays himself, was hoping to write the film adaptation of his novel. But he ultimately wasn't asked.
** French-Vietnamese actress France Nuyen was cast as Suzie originally. She was however in a troubled relationship with Creator/MarlonBrando and got fired for her erratic behaviour. Nancy Kwan, who had originally been cast in a small role as a bar girl, replaced her.

** The scene where Suzie's dress gets torn off was originally filmed with Nancy Kwan wearing a full slip. The director found such a garment too unrealistically modest - so he insisted on Nancy wearing the half-slip and bra. After getting coached by producer Ray Stark, she showed up on set aloofly wearing the half-slip as if nothing had happened.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There are differing reasons for why France Nuyen was dropped from the lead role. Some say she was behaving too erratically during Marlon Brando's affair with another woman. Another source said she had gained weight from overreating and couldn't fit into her costumes - and the director didn't want to wait for her to lose it. Others say she became pregnant.

** The scene where Suzie's dress gets torn off was originally filmed with Nancy Kwan wearing a full slip. The director found such a garment too unrealistically modest - so he insisted on Nancy wearing the half-slip and bra. After getting coached by producer Ray Stark, she showed up on set aloofly wearing the half-slip as if nothing had happened.