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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, and featuring Nils Asther and Walter Connolly. Based on the 1930 novel "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" by Grace Zaring Stone, the film is about an American missionary in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War who gets caught in a battle while trying to save a group of orphans. Knocked unconscious, she is saved by a Chinese general warlord who brings
- Charles Drage with Morris Cohen, "Two-Gun Cohen" (1954)
- Paolo Frere, "The Pedlar and the Doctor" (1995)
- Daniel S. Levy "Two-Gun Cohen: A Biography" (1997)
- Jim Christy, "Scalawags" (2008)
Film.
- In Frank Capra's "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933), the character of a western adviser to the general resembles Cohen. The movie was based on a book of