Anna May Wong

[purplelucrezia]

I was extremely surprised and pleased to find an Asian star from the period!
Anna May Wong...
http://silentladies.com/PWong1.html

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by purplelucrezia@Apr 21st, 2004 - 8:29 pm
I was extremely surprised and pleased to find an Asian star from the period!
Anna May Wong...

She reminds me a bit of the actress from Shanghai Express. Marlene Dietrich's co-star...I'll have to look it up now...

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by purplelucrezia+Apr 21st, 2004 - 8:50 pm--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(purplelucrezia @ Apr 21st, 2004 - 8:50 pm)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-purplelucrezia@Apr 21st, 2004 - 8:29 pm
I was extremely surprised and pleased to find an Asian star from the period!
Anna May Wong...

She reminds me a bit of the actress from Shanghai Express. Marlene Dietrich's co-star...I'll have to look it up now... [/b][/quote]
I was right! Her character in that movie was just so cool...

 

[purplelucrezia]

I found a couple sites on Anna May Wong. She was really a groundbreaking actress!
http://classicfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aa010304a.htm
http://www.anna-may-wong.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2440/wong.html

This article was an interesting read...
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6590

 

[fashionbébé]

I found a couple sites on Anna May Wong. She was really a groundbreaking actress!
http://classicfilm.about.com/library/weekly/aa010304a.htm
http://www.anna-may-wong.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2440/wong.html

This article was an interesting read...
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6590

purple lucrezia, this is THE BEST. i'm chinese myself and found this incredibly fascinating. as well as the rest of this topic. you folks are exposing me to a wonderful world of fashion. thank you.

 

[Mythique]

Anna May Wong was beautiful.

 

[northernsky]

anna may wong.

a random favourite of mine. i love the picture and what she is wearing, she seems so strong and elegant. haw.

(from www.thepcfixer.co.uk)

someone stop me.

 

[DosViolines]

Anna May Wong

source: doctormacro.com



source: http://www.elizabethwong.net/pages/1/



source: imageraptor.com



source: http://www.naatanet.org/festival/2004/html/pr_a.html

In The Toll of the Sea

 

[cheiby11]

amazing pics of Anna May Wong! I love her silent beauty

 

[Luxury's Lap]

Bumping this up with a photo of Anna May Wong found on eBay....

 

[northernsky]

i just watched piccadilly with anna may wong and i'm still amazed by that woman. oh, she was wonderful.

some stills from that film, it's a pity i couldn't find pictures of all of her outfits.
[moviemail-online.co.uk; wildviolet.net; nwfilm.org]

 

[northernsky]

anna may wong is wearing the exact same outfit here marlene dietrich wore in morocco, the black two-layer dress with the pearls. but they wouldn't have traded clothes, would they?

[from digitaljournalist.org]

 

[DosViolines]

^ amazing Gloria pics Dos
maybe you should give Gloria her own thread now that we have this lovely area...

I think that's a great idea

those Anna May Wong pics, northernsky
Wish I could give you karma, but I'm all out

 

[cheiby11]

Anna May Wong is amazing!

Northernsky, thank you for pics

 

[cheiby11]

I've found this one. Anna May Wong in 1930

 

[DosViolines]

^ , I really want to see that movie.

Sadly enough the only silnet ones I've been able to find here are Charlie Chaplin ones

Anna May Wong


doctormacro.com

 

[DosViolines]

Anna May Wong


doctormacro.com

 

[northernsky]

very beautiful pictures of anna may wong on this site. i especially love the yellow dress that cheiby posted and the very last one in sepia showing her in profile. love nazimova and eagles, too.

(i just found out that anna may wong was only 5' 4½" (1.64 m) tall. i always thought she must be at least 5'7'' or something maybe due the way she walked?)

dosviolines, i don't know where you live, but couldn't you order DVDs online or look out for cheap copies on ebay? i'm lucky to live in a city with a good cinema and some cultural institutions specialized in films nearby and many film students living here so even a video store offering non-mainstream movies can hope to survive (and i often use the videos the faculty itself has.) but i know how difficult it would be without that.

 

[Luxury's Lap]

This photo of Anna May Wong is from 1929....I posted more of her in the 1930s Actresses thread....had to spread the loveliness around.

(ebay)

 

[Luxury's Lap]

Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, was born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles, CA to laundryman Wong Sam Sing and his wife Lee Gon Toy. A third-generation American, she managed to have a substantial acting career during a deeply racist time when the taboo against miscengenation meant that Caucasian actresses were cast as "Oriental" women in lead parts opposite Caucasian leading men. Even when a role called for playing opposite a Caucasian in Asian drag, Wong was rejected as she did not fit a Caucasian's imagined ideal look for an Asian woman. The discrimination she faced in the domestic industry caused her to go to Europe for work in English and German films.

(ebay; babyjaneofhollywood.com)