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Lee Tung Foo
Lee Tung Foo (also known as Frank Lee) was a Chinese American Vaudeville performer born in California who performed in English, German, and Latin.〔(''Sixty years of California song'' ) By Rosana Margaret Kroh Blake Alversonwas〕〔(''Yellowface: creating the Chinese in American popular music and performance'' ) by Moon, Krystyn R., pp 146-147〕〔(''Lee Tung Foo and the Making of a Chinese American Vaudevillian, 1900s-1920s ) by Moon, Krystyn R., Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 8, Number 1, February 2005, pp. 23-48〕 He became a film actor later in his life.
At the age of 45, he ran a Chinese restaurant he bought in New York City called Jung Sy Mandarin Restaurant. He opened a second restaurant, Imig Sy, and both were strategically placed near Broadway. By the 1930s he returned to theater work, playing some minor roles until 1932, when he was cast as Wang Yun in the film, ''The Skull Murder Mystery''. He continued with minor roles, being cast as the servant of the Detective, Mr. Wong, in the 1939 film ''The Mystery of Mr. Wong''. His last work was in ''The Manchurian Candidate'', an uncredited role as a "Man in Lobby" at the age of 87.
== Early life ==
Born in 1875 in Watsonville, California Lee was a son of Chinese immigrants. Lee's parents had started a Laundry and grocery business in Watsonville, but moved many times before finally settling in Ripon, California. In his youth Lee had run away from home after growing pressure from his father to leave school and work full-time. Working as a servant Lee was introduced to American music by his employers who had also encourage him to go to school. A servant in the Oakland home of Zeno Mauvais, a local music store owner, Lee was influenced by his wife Mae S. Mauvais who worked in the Chinese Presbyterian Mission. Lee joined the church and sang mission choir and played the piano and reed organ. Through the missionary Lee was taken in by Margaret Blake Alverson, "a well known voice teach in the San Francisco Bay Area". whom he worked with many years to hone his singing ability.
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