Hollywood’s earliest filmmakers often used colorful real locations, like the streets around Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in their movies. Watching them as a child, Anna May Wong, a third-generation Chinese ...

Considered the movie industry's first Chinese American star, Wong overcame widespread discrimination to carve out a four-decade career in film, theater and radio. Here are photos from her life: Anna ...

Anna May Wong’s career spanned more than 60 films across the silent era and the talkies. Her life is now the focus of an exhibit at the Chinese American Museum. KCRW replays a conversation about her ...

Anna May Wong — born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles on Jan. 3, 1905 — is widely recognized as Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star. A year before she died in 1961 from a heart attack at age 56, ...

Anna May Wong was a pioneering actress considered to be the first major Asian American film star, despite the limits imposed by Hollywood’s racism. As this year’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian and ...

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The 10th Asian World Film Festival kicks off Nov. 13 with the critically acclaimed Korean drama “A Normal Family,” while also spotlighting the best in Asian cinema and adding new programs to boost ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KABC) -- Anna May Wong became a trailblazer for Asian women looking for representation in Hollywood in the early 1900s. Wong was the first Asian American woman to become a movie ...

WASHINGTON -- Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong will be the first Asian American to be featured on some U.S. quarters. The U.S. Mint will begin shipping the fifth coin in the American Women Quarters ...

The Chinese American Museum in downtown Los Angeles is paying tribute to Asian American Hollywood trailblazer and icon Anna May Wong, through a new exhibit opening this week. “Unmasking Anna May Wong” ...

Hearst newsreel footage courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Packard Humanities Institute. Additional photos provided by Everett Collection and Brendon Wilde. Transcript Anna May ...