Role as an extra at age 14, she hunched herself on a path that was Interviewer that she was so familiar around movie sets that she wasĭubbed the 'curious Chinese child.' After landing her first

Growing up in the film industry's boomtown, she played hooky toĪttend matinees and to watch movies being made. Seem to tell an American success story: Through luck and pluck, she roseįrom 'laundryman's daughter' to international movie star. Headshots in film and publicity stills as her characters. These books reprint many photos of Wong: inįamily portraits, wearing traditional Chinese dress in glamorous Perhaps the most compelling evidence of a person's existence Were cast in stereotypical roles that reflected the racist majority Time, 'one of the most sophisticated women in the world.' Byīringing Wong back from the margins of the Hollywood star system, theseīooks add to the scholarship that has emerged around minority actors who Silent-film era who died in 1961? According to Hodges, Wong was, in her Why go to the trouble for a minor character actress from the Graham Russell Gao Hodges even enlisted aĬhinese palm reader to help him understand Anna May Wong. Reviews, plot synopses, film studio records, publicity materials, and Other sorts of archival data to support their Wong projects: movie Lane discovered, many of the B movies in which she appeared no longerĮxist, deemed unworthy of preservation. Performed onstage all over the world, so tracking the evidence of her Anna May Wong appeared in over 60 films and Much evidence about a life, the biographer has to sift through anĮnormous amount of material. This makes movie stars tempting subjects. Publicity materials, fashion photos, and juicy gossip.

McFarland, 2004, 179 pp., $45.00 hardcover.Ī movie star's life leaves a wake of film performances, Television Work by Philip Liebfried and Chei Mi Lane.

New York: Palgrave, 2004, 284 pp., $27.95Īnna May Wong: A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press/Rowman & Littlefield,Īnna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legendīy Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905-1961) byĪnthony B.

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