Nancy Hsueh

Born in Los Angeles, California, Hsueh made two films as a child actress, China's Little Devils{{hsp}} (1945) and Intrigue (1947), on which her father served as a technical adviser.{{cite news |title=Films Discover Seven Year Old Chinese Child |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34984074/ |work=South Bend Tribune |date=June 24, 1947 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |title='China's Little Devils' and 'Saddle Serenade' will open showing tomorrow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34984162/ |work=Shamokin News-Dispatch |date=December 5, 1945 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In the early 1960s, she appeared in the Korean War drama War Hunt (1962){{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Robert J. |title=Korean War Filmography: 91 English Language Features through 2000 |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476621548 |pages=408 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Zk-CgAAQBAJ&dq=%22nancy+hsueh%22&pg=PA408}} and the John Ford Western Cheyenne Autumn (1964).{{cite news |last1=Newell |first1=Maxine |title=Cheyenne Autumn Company Enjoys Weekend in Moab |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36861663/ |work=The Times-Independent |date=November 21, 1963}} According to author Jon Abbott, "her exotic appearance kept her busy in the spy shows of the period, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, and The Wild, Wild West."{{cite book |last1=Abbott |first1=Jon |title=Irwin Allen Television Productions, 1964-1970: A Critical History of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786486625 |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq-uf3wB-TcC&q=Nancy+Hsueh&pg=PA53 }}

In 1967, she was cast as the female lead in the CBS soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing. The series was initially intended as a continuation of the 1955 film of the same name, which told the story of an interracial relationship between an American reporter and a Eurasian doctor. Hsueh portrayed Mia Elliott, the daughter of the couple in the original film.{{cite news |last1=Du Brow |first1=Rick |title=Latest Soap Opera Cracking New Ground |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34985987/ |work=The Press Democrat |date=September 27, 1967 |via=Newspapers.com}} However, CBS censors became uncomfortable with the series' portrayal of an interracial romance between a Eurasian woman (Hsueh) and a white American doctor (Robert Milli), and Hsueh's character was written out of the series within one year.{{cite book |editor1-last=Bernardi |editor1-first=Daniel |editor2-last=Green |editor2-first=Michael |title=Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation |date=2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313398407 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8NgoDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22nancy+hsueh%22+&pg=PA566}}

Her most prominent film role was as Boris Karloff's personal assistant in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968).{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Marjory |title='Targets' at Center Theater, plea against U.S. gun laws |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36334754/ |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 2, 1969 |page=10|via=Newspapers.com}} She had only a few small parts in film and television in the 1970s; her final acting role was in House Calls (1978).{{cite news |last1=Champlin |first1=Charles |authorlink1=Charles Champlin |title=Matthau Hits The Double |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36402324/ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 12, 1978|via=Newspapers.com}}

Hsueh was the daughter of Wei Fan Hsueh, who was born in Nanking, China, and Evelyn Postal, who was of Native American and Scots-Irish descent.{{cite web |title=New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24D4-TJJ |accessdate=17 August 2019|via=FamilySearch.org}} {{registration required}} She majored in education at the University of California, Los Angeles.{{cite news |title=Working Through School |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34984368/ |work=The News-Messenger |date=January 5, 1962 |location=Freemont, Ohio|via=Newspapers.com}}

On January 16, 1965, she married Daniel Carr, whom she had met during filming of Cheyenne Autumn.{{cite news |title=This Month Meet Nancy Hsueh |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22935813/the_messenger/ |work=The Messenger |date=December 23, 1967 |location=Madisonville, Kentucky |page=8}}

She died of atherosclerosis in Portland, Maine on November 24, 1980, aged 39.{{efn|name="DOB"}}

• China's Little Devils (1945) as Baby
• Intrigue (1947) as Mia, orphan girl
• Flower Drum Song (1961) as Girl (uncredited)
• War Hunt (1962) as Mama San
• Cheyenne Autumn (1964) as Little Bird (uncredited)
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966) as Native Girl
• Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967) as Joan Mavis (uncredited)
• Targets (1968) as Jenny
• House Calls (1978) as Gretchen

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