Examples of yellowface

• Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan were the most common East Asian characters in film and television of the mid-20th century, and they were almost always played by white actors in yellowface, although Asian actors did portray the Chan character in three silent film productions. (Swedish actor Warner Oland, the first Charlie Chan in sound films, did not use yellowface. He was considered to look Asian, and was typecast in such roles from early in his career.) An updated film version of Charlie Chan was planned in the 1990s by Miramax; this new Charlie Chan was to be "hip, slim, cerebral, sexy and ... a martial-arts master", but the film did not come to fruition. • Madame Butterfly, an opera about a Japanese woman who falls in love with an American sailor who leaves her, and when he returns with an American wife, the devastated Cio-Cio San commits suicide. This immensely popular opera is often performed with a non-East Asian singer playing the role of Cio-Cio San. == Before the Civil Rights Movement ==

== After the Civil Rights Movement ==

Note: This is also after the anti-miscegenation laws were repealed in the United States of America that prevented East Asian actors from playing opposite white actors as love interests. == 21st century ==

== Yellowface worn by a character in a film ==

In some films, white characters, played by white actors, have played East Asians, often as a disguise. == Books about yellowface ==

• Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (2022) by Esther Kim Lee – provides history and examples of yellowface == See also ==