# Anna May Wong

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CLASSICS-Portrait in Black

Front Row Classics is celebrating the work of legendary producer Ross Hunter. Brandon is thrilled to welcome back Paul Walsh to discuss 1960's Portrait in Black. This melodramatic suspense thriller stars Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee John Gavin and Anna May Wong in her final film performan…

Ep. 489- Portrait in Black

Portrait in Black Front Row Classics is celebrating the work of legendary producer Ross Hunter. Brandon is thrilled to welcome back Paul Walsh to discuss 1960’s Portrait in Black. This melodramatic suspense thriller stars Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee John Gavin and Anna May Wong in he…

Anna May Wong: A Thousand Deaths

Hollywood didn’t just typecast Anna Mae Wong, it built a whole set of “acceptable” fates around her and then acted like those limits were natural. We pull apart how a third-generation Chinese American woman from Los Angeles became one of the first true movie stars of the 1920s and 30s, while the in…

Not Your China Doll Audiobook by Katie Gee Salisbury

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Not Your China DollSubtitle: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May WongCategories: Actor, Biography, Celebrity, EthnologyAuthor: Katie Gee SalisburyNarrator: Katie Gee Salisbury, Caroline McLaughlinPublisher: Penguin AudioRele…

Anna May Wong, Part 1: The Certificate of Identity

Anna May Wong was born in Los Angeles in 1905 and spent her life carrying a card that certified she had been admitted to her own country as a native, on a doctor's word. Part 1 of 2: from a laundry on Figueroa Street to a Broadway stage in 1931, by way of Berlin. The modelling job at ten, the Chine…

Anna May Wong: A Thousand Deaths

"When I die, my epitaph should be: I died a thousand deaths." Anna May Wong was Hollywood's first Chinese American star, and the industry kept killing her off. In this episode of Witches, Bitches, and Sluts, host Xtina Rose follows a third-generation Angeleno from sneaking onto film sets as a kid t…

Anna May Wong, Part Two: The Dragon Dress

"I'm afraid that I'm a woman without a country." Anna May Wong, 1938, on taking her American clothes to China and finding she was foreign there too. Part Two of two, covering 1931 to 1961: the Travis Banton dragon gown now in the Metropolitan Museum and where its dragon really comes from, the two p…