Frances Chan: she might have been kin

Charlie Chan was, of course, a purely fictitious character. However, in 1944 an actress named Frances Chan played one of Charlie's daughters in a speaking role in Black Magic. She was very pretty, had been on the cover of Look magazine, her parents were both Hollywood extras, and she seemed to be on the verge of making a splash in Hollywood. Then, after two more small parts the next year, she disappeared from the movies. The reason? She had suddenly became engaged to Edward J. Eng, with whom she eventually had four daughters and a son. So, given that she had the right surname and, like him, a sizable family (although not quite so many as he did), she might have been a real relative of Charlie Chan.