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02817aam a2200361 i 4500 001 4735B70A0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 220630s2023 ilua b 001 0beng d 020 $a 1641608838 020 $a 9781641608831 035 $a (OCoLC)1333620711 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OEM $d FMG $d SO$ $d JTH $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN2287.W56 $b H63 2023 082 04 $a 791.43028092 $2 23 100 1 $a Hodges, Graham Russell, $d 1946- $e author. 245 10 $a Anna May Wong : $b from laundryman's daughter to Hollywood legend / $c Graham Russell Gao Hodges. 250 $a Third edition. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b Chicago Review Press, $c [2023]. 300 $a xxxii, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b black and white illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood's best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant's difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children born to a laundryman and his wife. Childhood experience fueled her fascination with Hollywood. By 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, The Red Lantern, and she continued to act up until her death. Her most famous film roles were in The Toll of the Sea, Peter Pan, The Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco, and Shanghai Express. But discrimination against Asians, in both in the film industry and society, was commonplace, and when it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, she was passed over for the Chinese female lead role, which was ultimately given to the white actor Luise Rainer. In a narrative that recalls the pathos of life in Los Angeles's Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood's pleasure palaces, Graham Russell Gao Hodges recovers the life of a Hollywood legend. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Wong, Anna May, $d 1905-1961 $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000066548256 600 17 $a Wong, Anna May, $d 1905-1961. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00250378 650 0 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Chinese Americans $v Biography. 650 7 $a Motion picture actors and actresses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027096 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012514.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4735B70A0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search