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  • Unladylike Anna May Wong (Season 1, Episode 6)
  • TV Episode | 11 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Unladylike

Anna May Wong (Season 1, Episode 6)
TV Episode | 11 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Anna May Wong (1905-1961), born in Los Angeles to second generation Chinese Americans, was the first Asian American female movie star. Her long and varied career spanned silent and sound film, stage, radio, and television, in an era when ...See moreAnna May Wong (1905-1961), born in Los Angeles to second generation Chinese Americans, was the first Asian American female movie star. Her long and varied career spanned silent and sound film, stage, radio, and television, in an era when Chinese protagonists in Hollywood movies were typically performed by white actors in yellow face. The first woman to buck this trend, Wong starred in classics such as The Toll of the Sea (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), and Shanghai Express (1932). Wong left Hollywood for Europe in the late 1920s, frustrated by the stereotypical roles in which she was often typecast as either a victim known as a 'Madam Butterfly' or as a 'dragon lady' victimizer. Her career was also limited by American anti-miscegenation laws, which prevented her from sharing an on-screen kiss with any person of another race. See less
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Producer
Julie Sacks
Cinematographers
Matt Crum | Martina Radwan
Editor
Xuan Vu
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Status
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Updated Apr 8, 2020
Release date
Apr 8, 2020 (United States)

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Our America with Lisa Ling (2011)
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ER (1994)
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