Anna May Wong Vintage Photo. Wong and Clive Brook.

Collectibles : Memorabilia : Movie Related

 

Anna May Wong ( aka Anna Mae Wong ): Old Ross photo of the young Anna May Wong with Clive Brook.

Size: 5,5 x 3,5 inches. There are paper remnants at the back since the photo has been pasted in an album. The front side is very fine though and there are no creases.

Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961) was the first notable Chinese American Hollywood actress.

Born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles, California, a daughter of a laundryman, she began playing bit parts as a teenager in the early days of Hollywood.

Despite this discrimination, she had a number of significant film roles. Her first starring role was in Hollywood's first color movie, The Toll of the Sea (1921) opposite actor Kenneth Harlan. Anna May travelled throughout Europe, and was one of the leads in the British film Piccadilly (1929). In Java Head (1934) she starred opposite actor John Loder as a Chinese princess married to a 19th-century English gentleman.

She also made films in German and French. In addition, she co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932) and with Lana Turner in Portrait in Black (1960), though she typically earned far less than her billing would indicate.

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