Raquel Welch RIP

John Wayne could not admit he had a Chinese Grandfather.

John Wayne's boot prints are in the concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater:

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but he was only Chinese in the 1956 movie The Conqueror, where he played Genghis Khan:

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The movie was filmed in Utah, downwind from a nuclear bomb test site in Nevada, and a significant number of the cast and crew died of cancer.
 
Genghis Khan was Mongolian, even in a cowboy costume he still show Chinese traits.



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I can't find any info on this. :unsure:

It was on Entertainment Tonight many years ago. It was on a segment that revealed many well known stars that had mixed ancestors.
Pre 1970s many stars had to hide their heritage. Just this week I was watching the PBS program Finding your Roots. There was a promo at the end for the next episode and it revealed that the 1960s black activist Angela Davis had white ancestors that came to America on the Mayflower. It is also suspected that J. Edgar Hoover the first director of the FBI had a black parent or grandparent.

It was not so difficult pre internet to hide things from the public.