Orig.Autograph Actress Anna May Wong 1928 ColorPostcard
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Original Autograph (Ink) of Actress Anna May Wong 1928 English and Chinese Color Postcard. From Berlin to Bucarest . "With kindly remembrance of my first picture in Europe Anna May Wong" Color Postcard: 3432/1 Atelier Jacobi Berlin phot. Eichberg-Film, Berlin "Rosa" Verlag Anna May Wong ( January 3 , 1905 Â- February 2 , 1961 ) was the first notable Chinese American Hollywood actress. Born Wong Liu Tsong ( Chinese : é»fæY3éoeoe ; pinyin : Huáng LiÇ"shuāng ) in Los Angeles, California , a daughter of a laundryman, she began playing bit parts as a teenager in the early days of Hollywood. Wong's first role was in Alla Nazimova 's silent film The Red Lantern (1919) as an uncredited extra. However, even with associations with a Hollywood power like Nazimova, her ethnicity prevented her from getting choice parts. Though her family had been in California since 1855, as a Chinese-American, Wong was considered "foreign" both through social prejudices of the time, and by law. Anti- miscegenation laws existed in California until 1948. [1] Hollywood films of the silent era and early 1930s pre-code era sometimes flouted the more conservative social mores of the time, but these restrictions were codified when the studios adopted the Hays Code in 1930, and began enforcing it in 1934. Wong's career was especially affected by the anti-miscegenation
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