Charming Lovebirds: Victor Sen Yung and Iris Wong

I've been slowly making my way through the Charlie Chan DVD collection. After seeing Victor Sen Yung in a couple of other features, I decided to jump ahead a bit and check him out in the role that launched his career: as Jimmy Chan, the detective's number two son in the Sidney Toler films.

What a surprise it was to see him paired up with the equally charming Iris Wong in an all too brief romantic interlude in Charlie Chan in Reno (1939). I'll have more to say later about each of them, but for now just sit back and enjoy the wonderful chemistry between Victor and Iris. In this clip you can get a rare glimpse of regular Chinese Americans unburdened by the stereotypes of Hollywood.