SIDNEY TOLER SELECTED.
After a search of several months, 20th Century-Fox has found the actor -to carry on the famous "Charlie Chan" role, played so long and successfully by the late Warner Oland. Thfe, new Charlie Chan will be Sidney Tdlery a distinguished stage and screen \ character actor. Toler was not one. of the hundreds interviewed and : > tested originally for the role. It was; while his most recent picture was being screened for editing that the executive producer Sol. M. Wurtzel was struck by Toler's'resemblance to the Charlie Chan created by Warner Oland. After subsequent screen testing, Darryl F. Zanuck agreed with Wurtzel's opinion and Toler was signed. He will make his first appearance as "Chan" •■ia "Charlie Chan in Honolulu."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 14
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121SIDNEY TOLER SELECTED. Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 14
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