Anna May Wong (1905-1961), US actress, wearing a sleeveless white top, posing with her arms folded in a dramatically-lit studio portrait , against a tiger skin background, circa 1930. (Photo by ...

Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American movie star in Hollywood. Born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, her career spanned both silent and sound film, appearing in more than 60 movies ...

Anna May Wong, star of screen, stage, and radio, is now ready for her debut in television and is shown on August 25, 1951 with director William Marceau discussing the first program.

In March, 1929, when the twenty-four-year-old Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made her London stage début on the city’s West End, in a play called “The Circle of Chalk,” critics took ...

Anna May Wong's fame has endured since before movies even had sound. Her niece wants to make sure everybody knows who she was and how she made history, cutting the path Yeoh was finally able to ...

Chinese American actor Anna May Wong, whose first film appearance was in 1922 was "Chinese Parrot," appears on Jan. 22, 1946. More than 60 years after her death, Wong will be the first Asian ...

Anna May Wong made history as the first Chinese American movie star. ... Watching Michelle Yeoh win the Oscar for Best Actress last year was such an emotional moment for me and for so many people.

Movie star Anna May Wong will be the first Asian American person to be featured on a US coin. Wong will appear on the back of a quarter as part of the US Mint’s American Women Quarters Program ...

Anna May Wong in 1928. Getty Images “I was so tired of the parts I had to play,” she said in a 1933 interview explaining why she moved to Europe, according to a 1987 article in the Los Angeles ...

Anna May Wong in 1926. ... churning out movies such as “Chinese Procession” (1898), “Scene in a Chinese ... the breeze off the Pacific was cool and the sunlight was doing its California best.

Anna May Wong made history as the first Chinese American movie star. ... Watching Michelle Yeoh win the Oscar for Best Actress last year was such an emotional moment for me and for so many people.