Anna May Wong was perhaps the best known Chinese American actresses during HollywoodOCOs golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much like Louise Brooks. She starred in over fifty movies between 1919 and 1960, sharing the screen with such luminaries as Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Marlene Dietrich. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, Wong was the second daughter of six children born to a laundryman and his wife. Obsessed with film at a young age, she managed to secure a small part in a 1919 drama about the Boxer Rebellion. Her most famous film roles were in The Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco, and Shanghai Express opposite Dietrich. Despite these successes, instances of overt racism plagued WongOCOs career. When it came time to make a film version of Pearl BuckOCOs The Good Earth, she was passed over for the Austrian-born actress, Luise Rainer. In a narrative that recalls both the gritty life in Los AngelesOCOs working-class Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood at its peak, Graham Hodges recounts the life of this elegant, beautiful, and underappreciated screen legend.
ISBN 9781403967909
Condition USED
Publisher PAN MACMILLAN
Artist / Author Graham Russell Gao Hodges; Graham Russell Ga Hodges
Shipping Weight 0.3000kg
Type books
Format Paperback

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