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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
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January 1, 2005
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Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 284 pages; $27.95.
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I can't wait for the movie! And I hope desperately that there will be a movie of Graham Russell Gao Hodges' biography (one of three recently published) of Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Hodges brings to life one of Hollywood's lesser known "legends." Born in 1905 Los Angles to Chinese immigrants, she spent her life attempting to bridge two worlds-something the pioneering Asian-American actress never quite accomplished
Although discouraged by her family, Anna May, a beautiful young girl, longed to be in the movies. In 1919, she ...
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