The Son-Daughter

San Francisco ca. 1900, early scenes having established Chinese immigrants supporting the rebellion back home, introduction of Helen Hayes as Lien Wha, Lewis Stone her doctor father, and Ramon Novarro, an infatuated student, in director Clarence Brown's The Son-Daughter, 1932.

Her father's assistant Louis Closser Hale chaperoning, the first formal meeting between Chinese-American Lien Wha (Helen Hayes) and student "Tom" Lee (Ramon Novarro, who had a successful singing career), in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, in The Son-Daughter, 1932.