Emma Stone in Asian role highlights racial miscasting in Hollywood

I recently watched Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing, the film adapted from Han Suyin's semi-autobiographical novel.

Unusually for a 1955 Hollywood production, the crew spent two weeks filming in Hong Kong. Seeing the colonial buildings - especially the now-demolished Foreign Correspondents' Club on Conduit Road - Queen's Road Central and Aberdeen harbour captured on screen was, to me, more romantic than the plot.

Jennifer Jones is cast as widowed Eurasian Dr Han Suyin, who falls for married journalist Mark Elliott (played by the libidinous William Holden, who she apparently found so abhorrent she ate garlic before they filmed scenes together).

At least 15 times, Jones tells Holden, "I'm Eurasian."

Only she isn't. No amount of slickly applied eyeliner, or well-fitted cheongsams, can convince the viewer otherwise.