Anna May Wong

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  • August 30, 2018 at 3:49 AM #234187
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    Anna May’s film career wound down in 1940′s:
    Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery (1941) – Lois Lang
    Lady from Chungking (1942) – Kwan Mei
    Bombs Over Burma (1943) – Lin Ying
    Impact (1949) – Su Lin
    The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong (1951) – Mme Liu-Song
    The Savage Innocents (1959) – Hiko
    Portrait in Black (1960) – Tawny

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    October 13, 2018 at 1:16 AM #241721
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    Anna May Wong’s personal relationships typically were with older Caucasian men. However, California law stopped all marriage between Asians and Caucasians until 1948. One of her white lovers offered to marry her, then intentions became known and he backed out. It’s up to debate if she would have accepted or not.

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    October 13, 2018 at 1:22 AM #241726
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    Anna May was asked many times about marrying a Chinese man of which she responded different ways. But her answers always bore down to her loss of career and independence if she did so.

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    October 13, 2018 at 1:29 AM #241731
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    Anna May loved reading, and her favorite subjects spanned a wide range, everything from Asian history and Tzu Lao to William Shakespeare. She liked playing golf, riding horses and skiing. She smoked and drank heavily which became more and more habitual over the years.

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    October 13, 2018 at 1:32 AM #241737
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    She was poised to make a comeback as a character actress on the big screen toward the end of her life, having appeared as Lana Turner’s maid in Ross Hunter’s sudsy potboiler Portrait in Black (1960). She was cast in the role of Madame Liang in Flower Drum Song (1961), the movie version of Richard Rodgers’s and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Broadway musical “Flower Drum Song,” but before shooting could begin she passed away.

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    October 13, 2018 at 1:45 AM #241742
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    Anna May dances in 1929 classic silent film, Piccadilly.

    October 14, 2018 at 1:28 PM #241797
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    Oldieslover,

    Wow! She had quite a nice little body too.

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    October 14, 2018 at 11:34 PM #241798
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    Thank you for this well researched and informative article. I am glad that Hollywood’s attitude towards Asiatic, coloured and other races has changed but it certainly took a while.

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