'The Magic of Ordinary Days': Gwendoline as Japanese Interment Camp Res.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Gwendoline Yeo
LPurch6636 — 19 years ago(March 26, 2007 07:13 AM)
I had long been curious about the two "Japanese sisters" who played in Hallmark's "The Magic of Ordinary Days." It was a period piece about a Japanese interment camp where the Japanese workers were sent to Colorado to work on a beat farm during WWII. The side plot was about their friendship with the newly married mistress of the farm Keri Russell who was uncomfortable in her new "marriage of convenience" because she had become pregnant by a soldier and her Reverend father had insisted on marriage- basically any Christian marriage since the father of the baby had yet to be found. Her father had found the humble beat farm owner through church connections; and so the educated, upper-class and gorgeous young woman who had been working on her Master's degree found herself unhappy as a rural housewife on a beat farm.
The two sisters had been pulled out their California homes where Gwendoline's role was that of a U.C.L.A. student working on an English degree; the pregnant and newly married mistress on the beat farm found the two educated Japanese women as immediate friends with similar tastes much more similar than the young woman's new beat farmer husband (played exquisitely by Skeet Ulrich).
When I found Gwendoline in IMDB, I was amazed to find such a glamorous and non-Japanese woman. Her part in the Hallmark movie had been so opposite of glamour but also so quietly lovely with mark of the Oriental, unsuffering spirit I am eager to see her in something else
Flanagan