| ~Silent Filmography~ |
Schmutziges Geld (1928) .... Song
... aka Show Life
... aka Song (UK)
... aka Wasted Love
Chinatown Charlie (1928) .... Mandarin's Sweetheart
Across to Singapore (1928) (uncredited) .... Singapore Woman
The Crimson City (1928) .... Su
Streets of Shanghai (1927) .... Su Quan
The Devil Dancer (1927) .... Sada
The Chinese Parrot (1927) .... Nautch Dancer
Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) (scenes deleted) .... Delamar
Old San Francisco (1927) .... A Flower of the Orient
The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) .... Baroness Stoloff
Mr. Wu (1927) .... Loo Song
Driven from Home (1927)
The Desert's Toll (1926) .... Oneta
The Silk Bouquet (1926) .... Dragon Horse
... aka The Dragon Horse
A Trip to Chinatown (1926) .... Ohati
Fifth Avenue (1926) .... Nan Lo
His Supreme Moment (1925) .... Harem Girl in play
Forty Winks (1925) .... Annabelle Wu
Peter Pan (1924) .... Tiger Lily
The Alaskan (1924) .... Keok
The Fortieth Door (1924) .... Zira
... aka The 40th Door
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) .... The Mongol Slave
Lilies of the Field (1924)
Thundering Dawn (1923) .... Honky-Tonk Girl
Drifting (1923) .... Rose Li
The Toll of the Sea (1922) .... Lotus Flower
Bits of Life (1921) .... Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife
Shame (1921) .... Lotus Blossom
The First Born (1921)
Outside the Law (1920) (uncredited) .... Chinese Girl
Dinty (1920) (uncredited)
The Red Lantern (1919) (uncredited)
... aka Show Life
... aka Song (UK)
... aka Wasted Love
Chinatown Charlie (1928) .... Mandarin's Sweetheart
Across to Singapore (1928) (uncredited) .... Singapore Woman
The Crimson City (1928) .... Su
Streets of Shanghai (1927) .... Su Quan
The Devil Dancer (1927) .... Sada
The Chinese Parrot (1927) .... Nautch Dancer
Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) (scenes deleted) .... Delamar
Old San Francisco (1927) .... A Flower of the Orient
The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) .... Baroness Stoloff
Mr. Wu (1927) .... Loo Song
Driven from Home (1927)
The Desert's Toll (1926) .... Oneta
The Silk Bouquet (1926) .... Dragon Horse
... aka The Dragon Horse
A Trip to Chinatown (1926) .... Ohati
Fifth Avenue (1926) .... Nan Lo
His Supreme Moment (1925) .... Harem Girl in play
Forty Winks (1925) .... Annabelle Wu
Peter Pan (1924) .... Tiger Lily
The Alaskan (1924) .... Keok
The Fortieth Door (1924) .... Zira
... aka The 40th Door
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) .... The Mongol Slave
Lilies of the Field (1924)
Thundering Dawn (1923) .... Honky-Tonk Girl
Drifting (1923) .... Rose Li
The Toll of the Sea (1922) .... Lotus Flower
Bits of Life (1921) .... Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife
Shame (1921) .... Lotus Blossom
The First Born (1921)
Outside the Law (1920) (uncredited) .... Chinese Girl
Dinty (1920) (uncredited)
The Red Lantern (1919) (uncredited)
Anna May Wong was born in Los Angeles' Chinatown. She was educated in the public schools but,
always intensely ambitious for a screen career, she found time to study dancing and to appear in
amateur theatricals. Marshall Neilan discovered her when she was playing as an extra girl and gave her
a part in "Dinty." She has straight black hair and brown eyes, weighs 120 and is 5 feet, 4 1/2 inches tall.
With the advent of the talkies she went to Europe and made a name for herself in films there.
always intensely ambitious for a screen career, she found time to study dancing and to appear in
amateur theatricals. Marshall Neilan discovered her when she was playing as an extra girl and gave her
a part in "Dinty." She has straight black hair and brown eyes, weighs 120 and is 5 feet, 4 1/2 inches tall.
With the advent of the talkies she went to Europe and made a name for herself in films there.
| ~Stars of the Photoplay, 1930~ |
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| ~Anna May Wong~ Born: January 3, 1905 in Los Angeles, CA, USA Died: February 2, 1962 in Santa Monica, CA, USA |
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| ~The Los Angeles Times, 1961~ |
Born in Los Angeles to traditional Chinese parents in 1905, Anna May Wong's star-struck ambition and
her svelte good looks coincided with a taste for Oriental exotica on stage and screen in the U.S. and in
Europe in the '20s and the '30s.
She was the first Asian movie star in the West, and her career spanned four decades, bridging the silent
films to talkies, and even venturing onto stage and into early television. Wong was a woman in the right
place at the right time.
Her career rose meteorically, yet she would find it hard to escape the crater of stereotyping into which
she too easily tripped.
Wong was one of seven children born in a Los Angeles combination flat and laundry. She attended
Hollywood High School.
She scored her first big-screen success opposite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in "Thief of Baghdad" (1924),
establishing the stardom that she held from the silent era into the early 1940s.
Although she typified the slinky Oriental siren in scores of movie intrigues, Wong did not visit China until
1936, where she remained for a year to absorb the Chinese culture.
After retiring from film life in 1947, she returned to the big screen in 1959 when she starred in "Portrait
in Black."
In recent years several of her films have been beautifully restored — including "Piccadilly" (1929),
which was Wong's last silent film and one in which she plays a cheeky scullery maid who becomes the
glittering headliner at a swank London nightclub. In this and countless other films, she does her
obligatory Oriental-style shimmy, here a concoction with Thai and Balinese flavors, in a scanty Oriental-
style costume while desire-filled white men look on.
"For a good 10 years she received top billing, she was a huge international star," says Mimi Brody, who
programmed a UCLA film series on Wong's work. "For an Asian American actress there's no comparison
for the scope of her career."
— Scarlet Cheng in the Los Angeles Times, with additional Times material January 4, 2004 and Feb. 4,
1961
her svelte good looks coincided with a taste for Oriental exotica on stage and screen in the U.S. and in
Europe in the '20s and the '30s.
She was the first Asian movie star in the West, and her career spanned four decades, bridging the silent
films to talkies, and even venturing onto stage and into early television. Wong was a woman in the right
place at the right time.
Her career rose meteorically, yet she would find it hard to escape the crater of stereotyping into which
she too easily tripped.
Wong was one of seven children born in a Los Angeles combination flat and laundry. She attended
Hollywood High School.
She scored her first big-screen success opposite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in "Thief of Baghdad" (1924),
establishing the stardom that she held from the silent era into the early 1940s.
Although she typified the slinky Oriental siren in scores of movie intrigues, Wong did not visit China until
1936, where she remained for a year to absorb the Chinese culture.
After retiring from film life in 1947, she returned to the big screen in 1959 when she starred in "Portrait
in Black."
In recent years several of her films have been beautifully restored — including "Piccadilly" (1929),
which was Wong's last silent film and one in which she plays a cheeky scullery maid who becomes the
glittering headliner at a swank London nightclub. In this and countless other films, she does her
obligatory Oriental-style shimmy, here a concoction with Thai and Balinese flavors, in a scanty Oriental-
style costume while desire-filled white men look on.
"For a good 10 years she received top billing, she was a huge international star," says Mimi Brody, who
programmed a UCLA film series on Wong's work. "For an Asian American actress there's no comparison
for the scope of her career."
— Scarlet Cheng in the Los Angeles Times, with additional Times material January 4, 2004 and Feb. 4,
1961
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