Question: What part did The King of Hollywood play in China Seas? 

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Finless porpoise: The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise ("Neophocaena phocaenoides "), or finless porpoise, is one of seven porpoise species.  Most of the population has been found around the Korean peninsula in the Yellow and East China Seas, although a freshwater population is found around Jiuduansha near Shanghai at the mouth of China's Yangtze River.  Genetic studies indicate that the finless porpoise is the most basal living member of the porpoise family.

Trader Tom of the China Seas: Trader Tom of the China Seas (1954) is a Republic film serial.  In 1966 the serial was edited into a 100-minute television film with the new title Target: Sea of China.

Mulan River: The Mulan River or Creek is a river in Fujian, China, which drains into Xinghua Bay on the Taiwan Strait between the East and South China Seas.  It is the largest river in Central Fujian.

Clark Gable: William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King".  Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931.  The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role and over the next three decades he became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures.

China Seas: The China Seas consist of a series of marginal seas in the Western Pacific Ocean, around China.  They are the major components signifying the transition from the continent of Asia to the Pacific Ocean.  They have been described in terms of their collective vastness and complexity:

China Seas (film): China Seas is a 1935 adventure film starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as his brassy paramour, and Wallace Beery as an extremely suspicious-looking character.  The oceangoing epic also features Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Akim Tamiroff, and Hattie McDaniel, while humorist Robert Benchley memorably portrays a character reeling drunk from one end of the film to the other.

Norman Macalister: Colonel Norman Macalister, who was a native of Scotland, was Lieutenant-Governor of Prince of Wales Isle (Penang) from 1808 to 1810.  The present brick structure of Fort Cornwallis in Penang, was built by convict labour in 1810 during his term as Governor of Penang.  He was lost at sea, in the South China Seas, while on the ship "Ocean" traveling back to Scotland (August 1810).  Macalister Road in George Town, Penang is named after him.  In 1805, as Commander of the Artillery, Macalister made an inventory of the useful timber of Penang, part of the Company's exercise to identify potential naval timber and secure suitable woods for masts and spars to replace supplies from the lost American colonies.

Pirates at Ocean's Edge: Pirates at Ocean's Edge is Wizkids ninth expansion in the "Pirates of the Spanish Main" series.  This set was released in April 2007.  It features giant crabs, prehistoric sharks and sea dragons.  It also features the return of the junk ship from "Pirates of the South China Seas" and galleys from Pirates of the Barbary Coast.  Three new ship types, Windcatchers, Sea Dragons and Catamarans, were added as well.  A new terrain feature, whirlpools creates an additional navigation hazard.  Along with being sold in the traditional booster pack format, the set also feature new two-player Mega-Packs, which are currently the only way to get sea dragons, windcatchers or catamarans.  The story has been developed.  Davy Jones, from "Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse" has returned with more power.  Also a number of ships from South China Seas have been converted to English, French or Cursed.  There is a new promotion, a Pirate 10-masted Junk, the Zeus, linked to Emperor Blackheart (often listed as 'King Blackheart'), as well as some other ships.

Amboyna (1807 ship): Amboyna was a 232-ton merchant ship built at Rangoon, British Burma in 1807.  She made a number of voyages to Australia with cargo from the East Indies and China.  A number of military convicts were transported to Australia by her.  She was wrecked in the China Seas in 1825.

USS John P. Kennedy (1853): USS "John P. Kennedy", the former wooden sailing ship "Sea Nymph", was a supply ship of the US Navy.  She was purchased at New York City in 1853 to participate in an expedition to the North Pacific Ocean to explore for commercial and naval purposes waters in the area of the Bering Straits and the China Seas, which were "frequented by American whale ships and trading vessels in their routes between the United States and China."  The expedition, under Commander Cadwalader Ringgold, besides supply ship "John P. Kennedy", consisted of sloop-of-war "Vincennes" (flagship), brig "Porpoise" , schooner "Fenimore Cooper" , and bark "John Hancock" .

Supporting paragraphs: China Seas (film) Clark Gable
Answer: a brave sea captain