Anna May Wong is finally having her moment.
The silent film actor and Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star is not only featured on a new commemorative US quarter, she’s also back on the big screen as the inspiration for the self-assured Lady Fay Zhu in Damien Chazelle’s current entry in the Oscar race, the ’20s industry taleWong delivered many bold and daring performances in her nearly 60-film career, most famously in 1932’sopposite Marlene Dietrich.
“Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain of the piece, and so cruel a villain—murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass,” she toldin 1933. “We are not like that.” Even when Wong auditioned multiple times for a role that seemed tailor-made for her—the lead inwhich centers on a Chinese farming family—the part was given to white actor Luise Rainer, who won an Oscar for it.’s Lady Fay, Wong was “a lone warrior”: “There were no others like her.
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