Hot Burmese actress from 50s: Win Min Than


She co-starred in "The Purple Plain", world war II background film released in1954, with Gregory Peck and Bernard Lee. I tried to google her biography further,but nothing came out. I am convinced that Burmese actress from 50s and 60s were way hotter than today's generation as my dad once told me. I've found couple of video clips from Purple Plain on Youtube. Well,here comes the storyline.....

The young Gregory Peck plays Bill Forrester a Canadian pilot in the RAF serving in far off Burma in the closing months of WWII. He flies a Mosquito, two seat, fighter bomber. (The actual aircraft was provided through the cooperation of the RAF and repainted in accurate camouflage and markings, for once.) Forrester, it seems, has gone "round the bend" after losing his new wife in the Blitz. He's self destructive, wanting to end it all in combat. "You'd think that would be easy in a war", he explains to Anna, "but I just kept getting medals instead." Anna is a small, slim, pretty teacher, played very well by Win Min Than, a Burmese actress (how refreshing). They, of course, fall in love (It's a MOVIE, folks) and his life really seems to be turning around. But, on a routine flight, he and two others go down in a very remote desert area of Burma's central plain (hence, the title). From there on we have a rather good, believable survival saga.(IMDB)




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5 comments:

Anonymous

12:15 PM

I just watched this movie on TCM and I agree 100%. She is very apealing in this role. I wonder if she is actually Burmese, though. Her name sounds like it might be Vietnamese. "Win Min Than" or "Nguyen Minh Thanh". Just a guess, but in the 50's, no one here knew anything about the place except that Jean Harlow took a steaming bath in a water berrel in "Red Dust in 1932

Anonymous

2:10 PM

She is Burmese and German, saw the movie yesterday on TCM and the host said that Gregory Peck wanted a real Asian woman as his girlfriend, not some white woman made up to look Asian.

Aung Thiha Aung

2:09 AM

Can anyone share the full film?
I so want to watch it.

eve

6:59 AM

Is she still alive? Where she live?

evelynn

6:12 PM

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