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Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
Jun 16, 2024 · Anna May Wong (born January 3, 1905, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died February 3, 1961, Santa Monica, California) was an American actress who overcame discrimination and racism to become one of the first Asian Americans to have a successful film career in Hollywood.
Anna May Wong. Actress: The Toll of the Sea. Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, was born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles, California, to laundryman Wong Sam Sing and his wife, Lee Gon Toy.
Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress of Chinese heritage, who grew up in a culturally diverse neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, Los Angeles. Her father believed in exposing his family to the creative arts, and often took them to see traditional Chinese stage productions. [2]
May 7, 2024 · Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American movie star. Her work includes silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.
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...
Oct 18, 2022 · LOS ANGELES — As a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrants in this city’s Chinatown, Anna May Wong talked her way into her first role in a movie. Over the decades-long career that followed,...
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...
Jun 15, 2024 · Anna May Wong — born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles on Jan. 3, 1905 — is widely recognized as Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star. A year before she died in 1961 from a heart attack ...
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,...
