An avowed bachelor ("the guy who wrote the bachelor""s bible finally getting hooked himself"), he is with lovely girl-next-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), a minister""s daughter.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)Nominated for two Academy Awards (with no wins): Best Original Score, and Best Visual Effects.With a production budget of $130 million, and gross revenue of $250 million (domestic) and almost $796 million (worldwide).Chang also propositioned Shanghai Lily to join him at his palace in the interior of China as his mistress, but she refused, citing that she was "reformed.[The real blacks in the film only played in minor roles.]Its climactic finale, the suppression of the black hreat to white society by the glorious Ku Klux Klan, helped to assuage some of America""s sexual fears about the rise of defiant, strong (and sexual) black men and the repeal of laws forbidding intermarriage.