page_title: The Bitter Tea of General Yen
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: The Bitter Tea of General Yen / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Poster for the American drama film The Bitter Tea of general Yen (1933).
context_page_description: The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American pre-Code drama war 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 her to his palace. When the general falls in love with the naive young woman, she fights her attraction to the powerful general and resists his flirtation, yet remains at his side when his fortune turns.
  The Bitter Tea of General Yen was the first film to play at Radio City Music Hall upon its opening on January 6, 1933. It was also one of the first films to deal openly with interracial sexual attraction. The film was a box office failure upon its release and has since been overshadowed by Capra's later efforts. In recent years, the film has grown in critical opinion. In 2000, the film was chosen by film critic Derek Malcolm as one of the hundred best films in The Century of Films.
context_section_description: Barbara Stanwyck as Megan Davis
  Nils Asther as General Yen
  Walter Connolly as Jones
  Toshia Mori as Mah-Li
  Gavin Gordon as Dr. Robert Strike
  Lucien Littlefield as Mr. Jackson
  Richard Loo as Capt. Li
  Helen Jerome Eddy as Miss Reed
  Emmett Corrigan as Bishop Harkness
  Clara Blandick as Mrs. Jackson (uncredited)
  Ella Hall as Mrs. Amelia Hansen (uncredited)
caption: Theatrical release poster
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