Cherylene Lee

I didn't know that there was another Asian "prodigy" around the same time that Ginny Tiu made her first mark. But, yes, as I just learned there was another prodigy--Cherylene Lee. No, she wasn't a piano prodigy, but dancing and singing was her forte. She appeared on various TV shows, including Gene Kelly's, and performed in Las Vegas as part of the sister act, the Lee Sisters. Here she is, with Gene Kelly, and then Dinah Shore and then the DENNIS THE MENACE show:

After a number of TV shows and appearances in feature films, her career seemed to stop. But she kept on going, however, becoming a writer and screenwriter, and doing some TV work, too, like voicing two parts in Hanna-Barbera kid's cartoon THE AMAZING CHAN AND THE CHAN CLAN.

One of Lee's plays, ARTHUR AND LEILA, was performed by Nancy Kwan and Dana Lee:

Lee also wrote a play about the Vincent Chin tragedy:

She wrote an autobiography, JUST LIKE REALLY. Here she is talking about her autobiography and career.

She started two Facebooks in late 2015, too. Sadly, she died not long thereafter, but the Facebook pages are still active.

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Cherylene and her mom