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Asian-American dance duo Dorothy Toy and Paul Wing, the ‘Chinese Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’, and how they captured audiences’ hearts




When Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, the first Asian-American dancers to perform at London’s Palladium Theatre were only a few months into their contract.Paul Wing and Dorothy Toy were well known as a tap dance couple in their heyday, when they were regarded as the Chinese Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – except that Toy was Japanese.Although they had danced their way through the Great Depression, and battled discrimination to star in Hollywood films and perform on…



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