[Free pdf] Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend






 | #2212608 in Books |  2012-08-14 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.80 x5.80l,1.05 | File Name: 9888139630 | 320 pages


||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| not bad, but|By helena|The author did probably his best. He writes well, and his fascination with Anna May Wong is seen through the book. However, and he admitted this drawback in the preface, he had only limited access to personal and family papers of Anna May Wong (due to some problems withing the Wong family). And this is the unfortunate point, and that is why I rated the b|From Publishers Weekly|While Wong (1905-1961) has been called "the premier Asian-American actress," controversies surrounding her career have left her life and work largely unexamined. In this groundbreaking biography, Colgate University history professor Hodge

Anna May Wong was perhaps the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood's 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 manag...


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