THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG Shoot, November 2006: Cleopatra Wong star Marrie Lee's office in Singapore (with huge portrait looming in background)
Producer/director Bobby A. Suarez discovered the 17 year old Doris Young during a casting call for Cleopatra Wong in Singapore, and dubbed her Marrie Lee (as in "sister of Bruce Lee"). She had already appeared in bit roles in two Hong Kong kung fu movies shot in Singapore.
The fake newspaper featured in
They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong (1977)
Poster for the ill-fated Cleopatra Wong adventure "The Destroyers", partially filmed in Malaysia in late 1978 before the cast and crew were forced the flee the country at gunpoint!
Bobby had already gone into pre-production on "Queen Cobra", a feature and proposed TV series, when Marrie Lee broke her five-year contract with BAS Films and left the Philippines.
Yet another film for BAS Films that never got beyond the script (and poster) stage.
In 1981 Marrie got the dream role in the pilot of a US TV series. Unfortunately for her the Writers' Strike shelved the project, and she returned to Singapore.
THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG Shoot, November 2006: Cleopatra Wong star Marrie Lee's office in Singapore (with huge portrait looming in background)
Producer/director Bobby A. Suarez discovered the 17 year old Doris Young during a casting call for Cleopatra Wong in Singapore, and dubbed her Marrie Lee (as in "sister of Bruce Lee"). She had already appeared in bit roles in two Hong Kong kung fu movies shot in Singapore.
The fake newspaper featured in They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong (1977)
Poster for the ill-fated Cleopatra Wong adventure "The Destroyers", partially filmed in Malaysia in late 1978 before the cast and crew were forced the flee the country at gunpoint!
Bobby had already gone into pre-production on "Queen Cobra", a feature and proposed TV series, when Marrie Lee broke her five-year contract with BAS Films and left the Philippines.
Yet another film for BAS Films that never got beyond the script (and poster) stage.
In 1981 Marrie got the dream role in the pilot of a US TV series. Unfortunately for her the Writers' Strike shelved the project, and she returned to Singapore.
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