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Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio.
Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks’ The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became a fashion icon, and by 1924 had achieved international stardom.
Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in Hollywood, she left for Europe in the late 1920s, where she starred in several notable plays and films, among them Piccadilly (1929).
She spent the first half of the 1930s traveling between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. Wong was featured in films of the early sound era, such as Daughter of the Dragon (1931) and Daughter of Shanghai (1937), and with Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express (1932).
In 1935 Wong was dealt the most severe disappointment of her career, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer refused to consider her for the leading role in its film version of Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth, choosing instead the German actress Luise Rainer to play the leading role. Wong spent the next year touring China, visiting her family’s ancestral village and studying Chinese culture. In the late 1930s, she starred in several B movies for Paramount Pictures, portraying Chinese-Americans in a positive light. She paid less attention to her film career during World War II, when she devoted her time and money to helping the Chinese cause against Japan. Wong returned to the public eye in the 1950s in several television appearances as well as her own series in 1951, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, the first U.S. television show starring an Asian-American. She had been planning to return to film in Flower Drum Song when she died in 1961, at the age of 56.
For decades after her death, Wong was remembered principally for the stereotypical “Dragon Lady” and demure “Butterfly” roles that she was often given. Her life and career were re-evaluated in the years around the centennial of her birth, in three major literary works and film retrospectives. Interest in her life story continues and another biography, Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story, was published in 2009.
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Anna May Wong Biography / Wiki
| Name | Anna May Wong |
| Also Know | Wong Liu Tsong, Anna Mae Wong, 黃柳霜 |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1905-01-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 56 |
| Deathday | 1961-02-02 |
Anna May Wong Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Bombs Over Burma | Lin Ying | 1942-06-05 | The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang i… |
| The Toll of the Sea | Lotus Flower | 1923-01-22 | While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship. The plot is a… |
| Lady from Chungking | Kwan Mei | 1942-12-21 | During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to … |
| Daughter of Shanghai | Lan Ying Lin | 1937-12-17 | A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring…. |
| Daughter of the Dragon | Ling Moy | 1931-09-05 | At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective…. |
| Tiger Bay | Lui Chang | 1934-09-01 | Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles … |
| Song | Song | 1928-08-21 | After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malays… |
| Chu Chin Chow | Zahrat | 1934-05-01 | Musical retelling of the “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” Arabian Nights tale…. |
| Island of Lost Men | Kim Ling | 1939-08-16 | A Chinese general’s daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant’s (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire…. |
| Java Head | Princess Taou Yuen | 1934-07-31 | The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, i… |
| Dangerous to Know | Madame Lan Ying | 1938-03-11 | Racketeer Steve Recka (Akim Tamiroff), art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying (Anna May Wong), his beautiful Orienta… |
| King of Chinatown | Dr. Mary Ling | 1939-03-17 | A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown…. |
| The Flame of Love | Hai Tang | 1930-03-30 | In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother’s life…. |
| Pavement Butterfly | Hai-Tang | 1929-04-09 | In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of na… |
| Flame of Love | 1930-09-19 | French language version…. | |
| The Silk Bouquet | Dragon Horse | 1926-06-25 | This obscure silent melodrama, directed by the veteran Harry J. Revier, was filmed entirely in San Francisco with an all-Asian cast that included Chin… |
| Driven from Home | 1927-01-15 | A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn’t approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by … | |
| The Honorable Mr. Buggs | Baroness Stoloff | 1927-04-24 | Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a … |
| Souvenirs | The Captain’s Chinese Love | 1928-02-15 | Plot unknown…. |
| Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 | Self | 1932-10-20 | Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out…. |
| A Study in Scarlet | Mrs. Pyke | 1933-05-14 | In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining me… |
| Piccadilly | Shosho | 1929-02-01 | A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act…. |
| Anna May Wong – Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend | Herself (archive footage) | 2007-01-01 | Documentary of Anna May Wong, a Chinese-American woman who endured many hardships and heartaches to become an international star of film, stage and te… |
| When Were You Born | Mei Lei Ming | 1938-06-18 | A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger’s death and then helps the police look for the murderer…. |
| Shanghai Express | Hui Fei | 1932-02-12 | A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey…. |
| Limehouse Blues | Tu Tuan | 1934-12-11 | Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloo… |
| The Devil Dancer | Sada | 1927-11-03 | An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER … |
| The Chinese Parrot | Nautch Dancer | 1927-10-23 | The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective C… |
| Just Joe | Peach Blossom | 1960-07-01 | A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet…. |
| Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery | Lois Ling | 1941-03-24 | Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoram… |
| Dinty | Half Moon | 1920-11-21 | Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers i… |
| Drifting | Rose Li | 1923-08-26 | In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has t… |
| The Desert’s Toll | Oneta | 1926-11-14 | Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn’t kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta…. |
| Mary of the Movies | Anna May Wong (uncredited) | 1923-05-27 | Mary’s kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given … |
| The Fortieth Door | Zira | 1924-05-25 | Aimee is a young girl betrothed to a rascal, Hamid Bey. An American archeologist, Jack Ryder, arrives to help the girl escape ending up in Bey’s harem… |
| Forty Winks | Annabelle Wu | 1925-02-02 | The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to … |
| A Trip to Chinatown | Ohati | 1927-01-03 | A young hypochondriac who believes that he has only a week to live. His name, by the way, is Welland Strong. He decides to visit his uncle in the sho… |
| Impact | Su Lin | 1949-03-20 | After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime…. |
| Peter Pan | Tiger Lily | 1924-12-29 | Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefario… |
| The Alaskan | Keok | 1924-09-14 | An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state…. |
| Bits of Life | Toy Sing, Chin Chow’s Wife | 1921-09-26 | This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a Ch… |
| Chinatown Charlie | Mandarin’s Sweetheart | 1928-04-15 | A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown…. |
| The Thief of Bagdad | The Mongol Slave | 1924-03-18 | A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess…. |
| Shame | Lotus Blossom | 1921-07-31 | William Fielding, a young widower, is living in Shanghai with his little boy, David. A young Chinese woman looks after the child, and Foo Chang, a tra… |
| The First Born | 1921-01-30 | Loey Tsing (Helen Jerome Eddy), the first love of Chan Wang (Hayakawa), is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan marries another, he still lo… | |
| Old San Francisco | A Flower of the Orient | 1927-09-04 | In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family…. |
| Outside the Law | Chinese Girl (uncredited) | 1921-01-06 | Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master…. |
| The Crimson City | Su | 1928-04-07 | Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit…. |
| Fifth Avenue | Nan Lo | 1926-01-24 | When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kem… |
| Portrait in Black | Tawny | 1960-07-27 | A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman’s rich husband…. |
| Streets of Shanghai | Su Quan | 1927-12-15 | Plot unknown…. |
| The White Mouse | 1921-11-06 | Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers who are bringing illegal Chinese immigrants into … | |
| Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood | (archive) | 2019-10-13 | A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack…. |
| Thundering Dawn | Honky-Tonk Girl | 1923-11-05 | Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduc… |
| A Tale of Two Worlds | 1921-03-13 | A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese…. | |
| Why Girls Love Sailors | Delamar (scenes deleted) | 1927-07-17 | Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain’s wife catches him. St… |
| Mr. Wu | Loo Song | 1927-03-26 | When Mandarin Wu’s unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance…. |
| Hollywood Party | Herself | 1937-04-03 | Elissa Landi and Charley Chase (playing Asian Charley Chan Chase) host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hol… |
| The Red Lantern | Eurasian woman (uncredited) | 1919-05-04 | Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. … |
| His Supreme Moment | Harem Girl in Play (uncredited) | 1925-04-12 | John Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play starring Carla King, and he falls in love with the actress…. |
| Elstree Calling | Herself / Katherina in Taming of the Shrew | 1930-02-01 | A series of 19 musical and comedy “vaudeville” sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself)…. |
| Across to Singapore | Singapore Saloon Girl (uncredited) | 1928-04-07 | While Joel and his older ship’s captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship’s mate Finch who, upon their ret… |
| The Savage Innocents | Hiku | 1960-03-20 | An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by… |
| Lilies of the Field | 1924-02-29 | A young mother, Mildred, doesn’t know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband’s, and th… | |
| Hollywood on Parade | Self | 1932-06-05 | A short featuring many stars… |
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