Discovering Anna May Wong

China didn't like Anna and by the same token China today dooesn't like someone like Zhang Ziyi. She is considered a disgrace to Chinese for dating a white man. So this idiot on video shouldn't be too hard on American hollywood at the time as racist. America was really no more racist than other culture in those days. They just were big enough to be famous for it. Chinese today are increasingly having to change their attitudes as well about a lot of things they aren't historically accustomed to.

amen.

Anna May Wong - a 'role model' for all young Chinese girls all over the world to chase a dream.

Mmmm, yummy.
If that's Wong, I don't wanna be right !

I haven't read his book but Professor Chan's book "Perpetually Cool: The Life of Anna May Wong" is quite intreresting, esp. as it's written from an Chinese American's viewpoint. He has a quite good Filmography.
If you can watch only a couple of Anna's movie's:"Picadilly" (silent), "The Thief of Baghdad" (silent) and "Chu Chin Chow" 1934 British, avail w/ commentary on Amazon.
An extremely underappreciated LA GIRL who, like many LA Girls made Hollywood what it is today.

She wasn't even considered to play lead in The Good Earth because Asians couldn't play romantic leads with white men. So they cast a Hungarian Luise Rainer, and she won the Oscar for it.

tony young

anna may wong is my favorite movie icon and my favorite song is these foolish things.

Excellent documentary! I really enjoyed watching it. It's such a shame that she died so young.

She should have played the lead in The Good Earth and Dragon Seed. I even saw a movie where Edwatd G. Robinson and Loretta Young called The Hatchet Man played Chinese.