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Portrait in Black

as Tawny

1960
Impact

as Su Lin

1949
Bombs Over Burma

as Lin Ying

1942
Lady from Chungking

as Kwan Mei

1942
King of Chinatown

as Dr. Mary Ling

1939
When Were You Born

as Mei Lei Ming

1938
Dangerous to Know

as Madame Lan Ying

1938
Daughter of Shanghai

as Lan Ying Lin

1937
Hollywood Party

as Herself

1937
Chu Chin Chow

as Zahrat

1934
A Study in Scarlet

as Mrs. Pyke

1933
Piccadilly

as Shosho

1929
Old San Francisco

as A Flower of the Orient

1927
The Devil Dancer

as Sada

1927
The Chinese Parrot

as Nautch Dancer

1927
The Thief of Bagdad

as The Mongol Slave

1924
The Toll of the Sea

as Lotus Flower

1923
Anna May Wong Anna May Wong

Birthday

1905-01-03

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna May Wong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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