~Anna May Wong~ Born: January 3, 1905 in Los Angeles, CA, USA Died: February 2, 1962 in Santa Monica, CA, USA |
Schmutziges Geld (1928) .... Song ... aka Show Life ... aka Song (UK) ... aka Wasted Love Chinatown Charlie (1928) .... Mandarin's Sweetheart Across to Singapore (1928) (uncredited) .... Singapore Woman ... Movie Still Code: 354-X The Crimson City (1928) .... Su Streets of Shanghai (1927) .... Su Quan The Devil Dancer (1927) .... Sada The Chinese Parrot (1927) .... Nautch Dancer Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) (scenes deleted) .... Delamar Old San Francisco (1927) .... A Flower of the Orient The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) .... Baroness Stoloff Mr. Wu (1927) .... Loo Song Driven from Home (1927) The Desert's Toll (1926) .... Oneta The Silk Bouquet (1926) .... Dragon Horse ... aka The Dragon Horse A Trip to Chinatown (1926) .... Ohati Fifth Avenue (1926) .... Nan Lo ... Movie Still Code: 240-X His Supreme Moment (1925) .... Harem Girl in play Forty Winks (1925) .... Annabelle Wu Peter Pan (1924) .... Tiger Lily The Alaskan (1924) .... Keok The Fortieth Door (1924) .... Zira ... aka The 40th Door The Thief of Bagdad (1924) .... The Mongol Slave Lilies of the Field (1924) - Movie Still Code: 14-X Thundering Dawn (1923) .... Honky-Tonk Girl Drifting (1923) .... Rose Li The Toll of the Sea (1922) .... Lotus Flower Bits of Life (1921) .... Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife Shame (1921) .... Lotus Blossom The First Born (1921) Outside the Law (1920) (uncredited) .... Chinese Girl Dinty (1920) (uncredited) The Red Lantern (1919) (uncredited) |
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~The Los Angeles Times, 1961~ |
Born in Los Angeles to traditional Chinese parents in 1905, Anna May Wong's star-struck ambition and her svelte good looks coincided with a taste for Oriental exotica on stage and screen in the U.S. and in Europe in the '20s and the '30s. She was the first Asian movie star in the West, and her career spanned four decades, bridging the silent films to talkies, and even venturing onto stage and into early television. Wong was a woman in the right place at the right time. Her career rose meteorically, yet she would find it hard to escape the crater of stereotyping into which she too easily tripped. Wong was one of seven children born in a Los Angeles combination flat and laundry. She attended Hollywood High School. She scored her first big-screen success opposite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in "Thief of Baghdad" (1924), establishing the stardom that she held from the silent era into the early 1940s. Although she typified the slinky Oriental siren in scores of movie intrigues, Wong did not visit China until 1936, where she remained for a year to absorb the Chinese culture. After retiring from film life in 1947, she returned to the big screen in 1959 when she starred in "Portrait in Black." In recent years several of her films have been beautifully restored — including "Piccadilly" (1929), which was Wong's last silent film and one in which she plays a cheeky scullery maid who becomes the glittering headliner at a swank London nightclub. In this and countless other films, she does her obligatory Oriental-style shimmy, here a concoction with Thai and Balinese flavors, in a scanty Oriental-style costume while desire-filled white men look on. "For a good 10 years she received top billing, she was a huge international star," says Mimi Brody, who programmed a UCLA film series on Wong's work. "For an Asian American actress there's no comparison for the scope of her career." — Scarlet Cheng in the Los Angeles Times, with additional Times material January 4, 2004 and Feb. 4, 1961 |
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