More than 60 years after becoming Anna May Wong first Asian American woman gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame leading actor will feature Asian American on US currency for The first time.
Wong, who fight against Debunking Stereotypes on Her by the white Hollywood, is one of five women This is honored year as part of The program. selected for Being ‘courageous’ advocate who defend for Increase representation and more Multidimensional roles for The mint director, Fentress Gibson, said: “Asian American actors in a permit.
Other icons selected include Maya Angelou, writer and civil rights advocate, Dr. Sally Ride, educator and first American woman in spaceWilma Mankiller first feminine elected main head of Cherokee Nation and Nina Otero Warren, pioneer for The suffrage movement in New Mexico.
Wong achievement Asian Americans have raised at home and outside of entertainment industry.
her niece who father It was Anna Mae Wong brotherWe will participate, or I will participate in a event with mint on November 4th at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. One of Wong movies “Shanghai Express” will be shown, followed by a panel Discussion.
Arthur Dong, author of “Chinese Hollywood,” said quarter Feel like Validating of Not just Wong’s contributions, but of All Asian Americans. a star on Walking of Fame is huge, but presence on The American currency is a whole other layer of the stratosphere of Fame.
“What does that mean? people All over the country – my guess is about world – I’ll see her face And seeing her name, Dong said. “If they don’t, know Anything about her, they’d be curious and want to learn something about it.”
Boy in Los Angeles in 1905, Wong began acting during the silent film era. While her career path coincided with Hollywood first Golden age, things weren’t golden for Wong.
I got it first big role in 1922 in “outcome of sea”, according to Dong’s book. Two years later, she played the role of a Mughal slave in “the thief of Baghdad.” For several years, she was stuck in only receiving offers for Fatal women or Asian roles “The Dragon Lady”.
She ran away to European movie sets and theaters, but so was Wong back in the United States by the early 1930s and again mastermind characters Accreditation on Metaphors that can hardly be tolerated today. These roles included untrustworthy daughter of Fu Manchu in “Girl of the Dragon “.
You famously lost out on The lead White actor Louise Rayner in 1937 entitled “The Good Land” on The novel About Chinese Agriculture family. But in 1938, I got that play a more A Chinese American doctor sympathetic to humans in “king of Chinatown.”
juxtaposition of this movie with Her other roles is focus of one day in for a month program”Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years”, curated by Dong at the Academy Museum of Animation in Los Angeles in November.
“(‘king of Chinatown) was a part of This is the multi-photo deal in Paramount that he gave her more control, more Say in Species of The films you were going to be in in’ He said, ‘of a Chinese American woman who has this type of A multi-photo deal at Paramount, that was pretty cool.”
By the 1950s, Wong moved on to television appearances. Was supposed to go back to big Monitor in The movie Adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein “Flower Drum Song” but had to bend down out Because of illness. she died on February 2, 1961, a year after receiving it star.
Bing Chen, co-founder of Gold House is a non-profit organization that focuses on on Raising the level of representation and empowerment of Asian and Asian American content – Call new quarter “very important”. praised Wong as a star “for generations. “
But at the same time, highlight how Anti-Asian hate incidents and shortages of the acting in media persist.
Asian American advocacy groups outside of Entertainment world also praise new quarters. Norman Chen, CEO of Asian American Foundation, plans To search for coins out to me show for him parents.
For them to see an Asian American woman on A coin, I think it would really be powerful for they. It’s a dramatic symbol of how We are an integral part of American society even now in Stereotypical ways,” he said. “But my parents We will look at this. They will be pleasantly surprised and proud.”
To sum it up, Chen said, it’s huge step: “no thing more American of us money. “
