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	Anna May Wong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was the first truly notable Chinese American Hollywood actress.
		Anna May Wong: A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Television Work was written by Philip Leibfried and Chei Mi Lane.
		For her contribution to the film industry, Anna May Wong was given a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 1708 Vine Street.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_May_Wong (447 words)

	GA - Vintage Posters - Anna May Wong, Hai Tang
		Anna May Wong as Hai-tang in the film a young Chinese dancer who falls for a Russian military officer, but their affair is complicated when the officer’s superior sets his sights on her.
		The legendary Anna May Wong growing up in Hollywood during the heyday of silent films, she was only 14 in the Films debut as the lantern bearers in The Red Lantern, 1919.
		Anna May Wong despite a long and varied career and to this day the most famous of Hollywood’s Asian actress to become an international celebrity and appeared in over 50 films.
	www.renqvist.se /Vintage_posters/anna_may_wong.html (518 words)

	S.F. International Asian American Film Festival 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born on January 3, 1905 in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong was "a long—time Californian," as both sets of grandparents had arrived in California by 1855.
		Anna May Wong's celebrity was now international, and her striking appearance and unique fashion sense made her image ubiquitous in prestigious magazines, cheap weeklies and souvenir postcards.
		It was a leitmotif for her life and career: viewed by Hollywood as an exotic ornament not to be considered for leading or non-stereotypic roles, she was also rejected by the Chinese as a disgrace, unable even to speak Mandarin properly.
	www.naatanet.org /festival/2004/html/anna_may_wong_essay.html (662 words)

	Articles > Anna May Wong
		Anna May Wong was 5 feet 7 inches tall, had fl eyes and usually wore her hair in bangs.
		Anna May learned to speak both French and German, and many people believed that in both attitude and outlook she quickly became more European than American.
		In 1937, Anna May Wong appeared on the cover of the second issue of Look magazine where she was identified as the "World's Most Beautiful Chinese Girl", even though she was shown brandishing a dagger.
	www.pictureshowman.com /articles_personalities_wong.cfm (1213 words)

	Classic Images: Anna May Wong
		Anna May Wong was the first actress of Chinese descent to attain stardom in Hollywood.
		Anna, who was always a quick study, had learned German and French by the time she appeared in her next film Flame of Love, her first talkie, released in 1930.
		Anna's body was cremated at the Chapel of the Pacific at Woodlawn Cemetery on February 9, 1961.
	www.classicimages.com /1997/december97/wong.html (4505 words)

	Encyclopedia: Anna May Wong
		Anna May Wong in “Princess Turandot”, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, August 11, 1937 From the collection of the Library of Congress and in the public domain: http://memory.
		Alla Nazimova, (May 22, 1879 - July 13, 1945), was a Ukrainian born stage and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer.
		Lana Turner Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 â€“ June 29, 1995) was an American actress famed early in her career for tight sweaters and smoldering sensuality and later in her career for sudsy romance films with maximum tragedy and glamorous gowns.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anna-May-Wong (1080 words)

	UCLA Asia Institute: Nobody's Lotus Flower: "Rediscovering Anna May Wong" Film Retrospective
		Wong's biographers insist that she tried to bring authenticity to her acting by studying Chinese culture.
		During her visit, Wong was berated by the Chinese government for portraying the Chinese in a negative light, but also treated to a hero's welcome in many locales.
		Wong later recalled the elaborate, forty-course meals she was treated to, and the gazes of wonderment from many locals who had previously believed she wasn't real - that she existed only on film.
	www.international.ucla.edu /asia/article.asp?parentid=6590 (1600 words)

	Anna May Wong -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was the first truly notable (Click link for more info and facts about Chinese American) Chinese American (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood actress.
		Born Wong Liu Tsong (黃柳霜, pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng) in (Click link for more info and facts about Los Angeles, California) Los Angeles, California, a daughter of a laundryman, she began playing bit parts as a teenager.
		Anna May Wong: A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Television Work was written by Philip Leibfried and (Click link for more info and facts about Chei Mi Lane) Chei Mi Lane.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anna_may_wong.htm (444 words)

	News of the dead: Rediscovering Anna May Wong
		Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong in 1905 in Los Angeles, where her family operated a laundry.
		Wong began her career as an extra at the age of 14 and had several supporting roles before being cast as the lead in the first two-color Technicolor feature, 'The Toll Of The Sea' (1922).
		A stunning beauty, Wong was the first Chinese American actress to become an international celebrity and appeared in over 50 films, making the transition from silents to talkies and even to television.
	wileywiggins.blogspot.com /2004/01/rediscovering-anna-may-wong.html (177 words)

	TIME.com -- Richard Corliss: Anna May Wong Did It Right
		Anna May Wong, 54 [actually 56], Los Angeles-born daughter of a local laundryman, who became a film star over her father's objections that "every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul," died a thousand deaths as the screen's foremost Oriental villainess; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif.
		Tall, pretty and sinuously graceful, Wong had a smoldering effect on people, especially men; they could be driven to a purple passion trying to describe her beauty.
		Anna May Wong, a third-generation Chinese-American —; her grandparents had been in California at least since 1855, long before many of the state's natives — had plenty of hurdles to jump.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,1022536,00.html (1477 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| What's on? \| Anna May Wong
		Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong (translated as Frosted Yellow Willows) on 3 January 1905 in Los Angeles to second generation Chinese-American parents.
		Part of what makes Anna May Wong such an icon is the number of famous photographers that she sat to and collaborated with to produce images that transcend mere portraiture and elevate the results into high art.
		Wong made her screen debut in The Red Lantern (1919) and after appearing in five further films had her first starring role in Technicolor's first two-strip colour film, The Toll of the Sea (1922).
	www.npg.org.uk /live/woannamaywong.asp (482 words)

	Anna May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows, a Documentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anna was also the first Asian American to have her own television show.
		Anna became known for her fluid grace and languid sexuality on screen.
		In this biographical documentary, we will follow the ascent of Anna May Wong from her humble beginning in Los Angeles, California to her uphill climb in Hollywood and to the peak of her international fame.
	www.anna-may-wong.com (237 words)

	Rediscovering Anna May Wong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Los Angeles in 1905, over her family’s Chinese laundry, the glamorous Anna May Wong was the first Asian-American movie goddess, and made over 50 films in a remarkable career that spanned the silent, sound, and early television eras.
		Anna May Wong’s first starring role came in the first feature to be produced in the new two-colour Technicolor process (a highly expensive innovation later supplanted by the perfecting of the standard three-colour system in the 1930s).
		This outlandish romp, inspired by the Arabian Nights, is one of several films Anna May Wong made in Britain, and marked not the first time she was cast as a treacherous slave girl – see also the Douglas Fairbanks classic The Thief of Bagdad (May 5 and 6), likewise inspired by the Arabian Nights.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /MayJune04/annamaywong.html (1136 words)

	village voice > film > 'Anna May Wong'; Piccadilly by J. Hoberman
		The bill is rounded out with clips from The Thief of Bagdad (1924), which Wong nearly stole from Douglas Fairbanks in the small but unforgettable part of an underdressed Mongolian spy, and Old San Francisco (1927), made the year before she briefly relocated to Europe, her career stymied by American racial prejudice.
		The MOMA retro mainly samples Wong's subsequent Hollywood talkies: Daughter of the Dragon (1931); Shanghai Express (1932), showing with the 1936 Hearst newsreel Anna May Wong Visits Shanghai; and her two films directed by Robert Florey, Dangerous to Know (1938) and Daughter of Shanghai (1938).
		Wong is sensationally expressive and projects a modern, coolly appraising sexuality.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0403/hoberman2.php (374 words)

	Portrait of the actress Anna May Wong by Thomas Staedeli
		The actress Anna May Wong was born as Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles.
		Her cousin, the actor James Wong showed a picture of Anna May Wong to a producer and as a result she got a small part in the today no longer existing movie "Dinty" (18).
		Anna May Wong dies of a heart attack in 1961.
	www.cyranos.ch /spwong-e.htm (412 words)

	AlterNet: From Anna May Wong to Lucy Liu
		Wong's choice of roles was limited by what Hollywood studios were offering her at the time.
		Wong had a remarkable career, acting in more than 80 films over a 23-year period, successfully making the transition from the silent to the sound era.
		As a movie star, Lucy Liu is not yet Anna May Wong's equivalent but her film career is still in its early stages and her popularity seems to be rising.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=18175 (1439 words)

	Shwing! Art+Culture+Life Article: Anna May Wong - Part 1
		At home in the U.S. Anna May only found this kind of adulation in Chinatown, where crowds parted for her like the Red Sea parting for Moses, and people stopped in their tracks to stare at her.
		The fan magazines and the public were content to see whatever the studios handed out, and Anna May provided the studios with the sexual and exotic draw they needed to bring audiences to many B-movies the public would otherwise have ignored.
		Anna May Wong was the only Asian woman screen star in the early days of motion pictures.
	www.shwing.com /artman/publish/article_39.shtml (712 words)

	Anna May Wong: The Famous Actress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anna May Wong was one of the most famous actresses of her time.
		Many times, he would take Anna himself and when she was not being filmed, he would lock her in a room on the set.
		Anna May Wong was a strong women who had to overcome the obstacle of Asian American racism.
	www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us /htm/Units/middle/sstudies/Stuper (442 words)

	Read about Anna May Wong at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Anna May Wong and learn about Anna May Wong here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 –; February 3, 1961) was the first truly notable Chinese American
		Born Wong Liu Tsong (黃柳霜, pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng) in Los Angeles, California, a daughter of a laundryman, she began playing bit parts as a teenager.
		Wong never married, though reportedly was a mistress of film director
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Anna_May_Wong (389 words)

	Anna May Wong posters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anna May Wong posters It all is available and the mounting and framing prices are real attractive.
		Wong May Anna can save up to 65% percent over a local mall and not deal with all the headaches and bad coffee that comes with it either.
		Anna May Wong as Hai-tang in the film a young Chinese dancer who falls for a Russian military officer,...
	www.radical-usurper.com /anna-may-wong-posters.htm (522 words)

	anna may wong, pinup photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was revered the world over, though the closest she ever came to the Orient was being born in Los Angeles' Chinatown as Wong Liu Tsong.
		I have been informed by a visitor (Philip Leibfried) that Anna did indeed spend some time in China in the 1930's.
		Anna was born in 1905 and her first film was
	www.homestead.com /Wolfsden3/AnnaMayWong.html (94 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Anna May Wong : From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He writes compellingly of Wong's ambivalence about her Chinese heritage and its traditions--she was in most ways a thoroughly modern American woman--and how an extended trip to the land of her ancestry was something of a life-changing experience for the star.
		Anna May Wong was known as something of a sex symbol in her day, but she was also a very talented actress.
		Then at the end of the book Hodges describes one of Wong's last appearances on television with the fact that there was a problem with her lower lip "from her near fatal stroke two years before." The TV show in question was taped in 1960.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312293194?v=glance (2769 words)

	S.F. International Asian American Film Festival 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anna May Wong's screen roles are steeped in controversy to this day, while her personal life was filled with contradictions.
		Wong, and fueled renewed debates over racial stereotypes, gender roles and the responsibility of an actress to both her conscience and community.
		A diverse panel of actresses, academics and critics will assess from personal and professional perspectives the career of Anna May Wong, and what the future holds for the inheritors of her legacy.
	www.naatanet.org /festival/2004/html/anna_panel.html (276 words)

	Anna May Wong 1905-61
		Anna may Wong, nee Wong Liu Tsong (translates as Frosted Yellow Willows), was a Chinese-American actress born in 1905 above a Los Angeles laundrette, to a Laundryman and his wife.
		The British actress Gilda Gray was top-billed, but it is Wong who grabs the on-screen attention.
		Nowadays Anna May Wong enjoys somewhat of a cult following, but is not as widely remembered as she maybe deserves.
	www.freewebs.com /annamaywong (520 words)

	Anna May WONG, Astrologie et planètes : thème astral, carte du ciel interactive
		Mais vous savez mieux que d'autres jouer avec les sentiments et attirances.
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	www.astrotheme.fr /portraits/24F4DF6Fn3dt.htm (8525 words)

	Anna May Wong posters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And with Anna May Wong posters framing and matting directly from the supplier you can save a bundle and time is quick for this process and they ship Anna May Wong posters to the house.
		Give them the address and presto, Anna May Wong posters is delivered in a timely manner.
		They had some replica picasso that I just had to have as well as Anna May Wong posters and MC Escher as well as Anna May Wong posters too.
	www.unconventionalfilms.com /anna-may-wong-posters.htm (622 words)

	LA Weekly: Film: Dragon’s Daughter
		Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu-Tsong on January 3, 1905, above the Flower Street laundry her family ran in L.A.’s Chinatown.
		Determined to thrive in talkies, where other silent stars were failing, and after critics said she sounded too Californian, Wong went to Europe in 1928, took speech lessons, trod the boards at the Haymarket opposite Laurence Olivier, and came home with a handful of films and an Etonian accent.
		Wong soon fled back to England, where screen roles and parties at Claridge’s awaited, and where she told a London paper: “I think I left America because I died so often.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/04/07/film-tan.php (1213 words)

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