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When Were You Born?

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When Were You Born?	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })When Were You Born? is a 1938 film directed by William C. McGann.A ship crosses the ocean headed to San Francisco. A young woman, Nita Kenton, gets an astrological reading from Mei Lei Ming (Anna May Wong). Her lover Philip Corey, an importer of Asian goods, rolls his eyes and scoffs at what he regards as obvious nonsense. Mei Lei then flings a prediction at him: he will be dead within 48 hours.Of course, it happens, as Corey is found dead in his condo the very next morning. And no, Mei Lei didn't do it to make her prediction come true, as she has a solid alibi. Was it Doris, the woman Philip wanted to marry? Larry, Doris's admirer who didn't like her spending time with Philip? Frederick Gow, Philip's extremely shifty business partner? (And he's very shifty, as the investigation reveals that the two of them were actually smuggling heroin.) Maybe it was Shields, the butler.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The cops zero in on Doris and Larry. As it happens, Mei Lei is Doris's good friend from school. She resolves to use her skill at astrology, which is totally legit, to find the real killer.
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When Were You Born? / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Philip Corey, who was a drug smuggler, who was attempting to blackmail Doris into marrying him, and who was generally an obnoxious jerk.
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When Were You Born? / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Manly P. Hall, a mystic and astrologer who wrote the story to this movie, appears in a prologue before the film proper starts to explain the twelve signs of the Western Zodiac and insist that astrology is totally real and a science. (This intro takes up a good five minutes in a film that is only 66 minutes long.)
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When Were You Born? / int_fb3ac5b7	comment	Astrologer: Mei Lei, who unlike most examples of this trope is not a fake but instead is a phenomenally talented real astrologer who makes eerily accurate deductions about people based on the date and time of their birth.
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