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    Anna May Wong

    Chinese American actress

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  2. www.history.com › news › anna-may-wong-facts-careerAnna May Wong: 13 Facts About Her Trailblazing Hollywood Career

    Apr 30, 2024 · Anna May Wong rose to fame as an actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Living from 1905 to 1961, when the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its extensions were enforced,...

  3. www.biography.com › actors › anna-may-wongAnna May Wong - Career, Movies & Facts - Biography

    May 7, 2024 · Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American movie star. Her work includes silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.

  4. www.cnn.com › 2024/03/21 › entertainmentAnna May Wong made history as the first Chinese American movie...

    Mar 21, 2024 · It was her first day as an intern at LA’s Chinese American Museum, and a curator explained that she was looking at Anna May Wong: an internationally famous actress from the ’20s and ‘30s who...

  5. americanhistory.si.edu › explore › storiesAnna May Wong's long journey from Hollywood to the Smithsonian

    May 1, 2024 · Wong built a remarkable career. She became a legendary style icon and paved the way for other Asian American actors to follow—all the while battling prejudice and stereotyping still so profound that it was not until 2023 that a woman of Asian ancestry would win an Academy Award for Best Actress.

  6. www.womenshistory.org › education-resources › biographiesBiography: Anna May Wong - National Women's History Museum

    Appearing in over sixty movies throughout her career, Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood. In addition to her roles in silent films, television, and stage, Wong landed a role in one of the first movies made in Technicolor.

  7. www.newyorker.com › books › under-reviewHow Anna May Wong Became the First Chinese American Movie Star

    Aug 30, 2023 · In March, 1929, when the twenty-four-year-old Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made her London stage début on the city’s West End, in a play called “The Circle of Chalk,” critics took issue...

  8. www.theguardian.com › film › 2022Anna May Wong: the legacy of a groundbreaking Asian American star

    Oct 19, 2022 · The international film star and fashion icon Anna May Wong has been named the first Asian American to be featured on US currency. As part of the Women Quarters program, which launched by...