Sunday, December 21, 2014

Anna May Wong #2


1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Deservedly, Miss Wong has two bios on IMDb, one extensive, the second comprehensive. She experienced tough times in Hollywood's intensely racially-prejudiced era, even being denied casting for looking either too Chinese, or not Chinese enough, according to the studio powers. LOOK magazine named her the most beautiful Chinese girl in the world. Her finest work and best success was found in Europe, where she was at last respected. She returned the respect by learning German and French, and won the hearts of her Continental audiences. She died of a heart attack, at only 56 years of age, out here in Santa Monica, in 1961.