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HOLLYWOOD (2020-) 1x02/1x07 Michelle Krusiec as Anna May Wong

Break drawing from the other day. The fabulous Anna May Wong. BABE.

She was born Wong Liu Tsong in 1905 in Los Angeles to a Cantonese-American family that had lived in America since at least 1855. However, being an American didn’t matter in a time when people of Chinese descent were being heavily legislated against. Beginning in 1909, any people of Chinese descent entering or residing in the US, regardless of the country of their birth, had to carry a Certificate of Identity with them at all times. Even at the peak of her fame, Wong still had to carry papers like the one above to prove she was allowed to be here. Read the rest of the article.

Baby Anna May Wong with her mother, Lee Gon Toy, and her older sister, Lew Ying (“Lulu”).

Dress worn by Anna May Wong in “Limehouse Blues”

Travis Banton, 1934

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961)

Anna May Wong was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American to become an international star.Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, singer, author and radio. Her career began in 1919 and lasted till 1960, at the age of 55, one year before she passed.