Nancy Kwan is an incredibly talented actress and an important film pioneer. Best known for her first two roles in The World of Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song (where she sang the famous I Adore Being a Girl), she was one of the first asian actors to become truly popular in American film. As such she became a role-model for countless other performers of asian descent.

She even achieved the difficult feat of crossing over into non-asian roles, playing an Italian acrobat in The Main Attraction and a proper british secretary in The Wild Affair.

There is now a campaign to get Nancy Kwan a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and The Gnomon is all for it. There are just seven stars for asian actors at present, only one -- Anna May Wong's -- for a female. Nancy Kwan should be the eighth. For information on the campaign for Nancy Kwan's star, email star@nancy-kwan.com.