The First Myanmar/Burmese Actress to Star in Hollywood Film, 1955
Daw Win Min Than, the first Myanmar actress to star in Hollywood film, grew up in Rangoon when Burma was part of the British Raj. She was the daughter of a government official. When the Japanese occupied Burma during World War II, the family fled to India. Until she was 14 years old, she attended a convent school, where she learned English.
In 1951, the family sent her to London, where she Marie Rambert’s dance school, but she quickly realized she was no dancer and soon returned to Burma, where she married the famous politician Bo Setkya (Thakin Aung Than), who was almost 20 years her senior.
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Co-Sponsored and Presented by Asian Student Union (ASU) of San Francisco State University, Burmese Youth Association (BYA) and the Network of Myanmar American Association (NetMAA). The SF Burmese Film festival is the first ever held for the Myanmar (Burmese) community in the San Francisco and Bay Area.
AFI FEST 2011 presented by Audi will take place November 3–10, 2011 in Hollywood, California at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres at the Hollywood & Highland Center, the Egyptian Theatre of the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
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