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Lim Kee, Alice (c. 1900 - )

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Alice Lim Kee
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Alice Lim Kee with fan
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Douglas Fairbank, Alice Lim Kee and Mary Pickford in Shanghai, 1929?, courtesy of Contact print created by Museum of Chinese Australian History c1980s.
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Queenie Lim Kee (left) and Alice Lim Kee (right), c. 1915, by Mendlesohn Studios
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Born: c. 1900
Rutherglen, Victoria
Occupation: actor
Summary: Queenie Lim Kee and Alice Lim Kee were daughters of Ng Hock Lim. They were born in Rutherglen, Victoria. Some time in the 1920s they moved to Melbourne and at this stage (or earlier?) Alice was unofficially engaged to Frank Chinn. Alice later went to Shanghai and became a film star there.

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Lim Kee, Queenie (c. 1902 - )

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Title: Alice Lim Kee
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Alice Lim Kee with fan
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia?; Details

Title: Douglas Fairbank, Alice Lim Kee and Mary Pickford in Shanghai
Type: Photograph
Date: 1929?
Place: China - Shanghai; Details

Title: Queenie Lim Kee (left) and Alice Lim Kee (right)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages; Museum of Chinese Australian History collection.

Created: 17 March 2003, Last modified: 19 July 2005