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19 de ago. de 2024 · Anna May Wong, born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles, was the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood and the first Chinese American actress to achieve international fame. She had a significant career that spanned silent films, sound films, television, stage, and radio.
Hace 12 horas · Growing Up in Film. In the 1910s, when Wong was a little girl, the movie industry moved from New York City to Los Angeles, her hometown. While working in her parents’ laundromat, Wong would use the money she earned to buy movie tickets. She would also head to movie sets and watch as the actors and crew members got to work.
21 de ago. de 2024 · Anna May Wong was a pioneering actress considered to be the first major Asian American film star, despite the limits imposed by Hollywood’s racism. As this year’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month draws to a close, we bring you her story as part of our “Hidden Histories” series.
Hace 5 días · His costumes, meanwhile, recall the gowns worn by Marlene Dietrich, Leni Riefenstahl, Anna May Wong and Swanson herself. Ashley Wallen’s athletic choreography with its thrusting port de bras is equal parts Gene Kelly and Jack Cole; and director Paul Warwick Griffin’s accomplished scene work lifts the characters off the page, affording them more psychological depth than has previously been ...
21 de ago. de 2024 · ABOUT THE BOOK: In her time, Anna May Wong was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad.
23 de ago. de 2024 · Life in the Box: Valuing Women, Anna May Wong - August 21, 2024 You don’t see many women on U.S. coins. I pawed through my collection of change recently and found a few females. Helen Keller is etched i...
29 de ago. de 2024 · One celebrated pioneer, Anna May Wong, began her ascent to global fame as early as the 1920s, breaking out in “The Thief of Bagdad” and starring in films like “Shanghai Express.”)