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Based on interviews with friends and colleagues along with many clips from his film and television appearances,\n <i>\n You Don't Know Jack\n </i>\n also covers his time at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tanforan_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Tanforan (detention facility)\">\n Tanforan\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Topaz\" title=\"Topaz\">\n Topaz\n </a>\n during World War II.\n </p>\n <p>\n Born in 1917 to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Issei\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n parents on a ship between the United States and Japan (and thus not an American citizen by birth), his birth name was Goro Suzuki. Childhood friends and Soo/Suzuki's daughter Jayne Soo Carelly describe his sports exploits in high school and his talent as a singer, first as an amateur, then as a professional after graduating from high school. His fledgling career was interrupted by the war. Friends describe his role as a musical performer, MC, and organizer of shows at Tanforan and Topaz.\n </p>\n <p>\n Leaving Topaz for Cleveland, he worked as a nightclub singer and comedian, taking the name \"Jack Soo\" because of wartime prejudices against Japanese Americans. Fellow performers—most notably Etta Benjamin, who with her husband LeRoy had a popular marionette act known as \"The LeRoy Brothers\"—describe the ups and downs of the nightclub years, including his courtship of his future wife Jan Zdelar, a Croatian American former model. The film goes on to cover his big break in landing a role on Broadway in Rodgers & Hammerstein's\n <i>\n Flower Drum Song\n </i>\n and in the subsequent Hollywood movie through recollections by co-stars Alvin Ing and Nancy Kwan and\n <i>\n Flower Drum Song\n </i>\n author C. Y. Lee. 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