Submitted by ActuallyCausal t3_y8h0ae in todayilearned
You must have the Criterion channel, she was featured recently.
Moreso she's being featured on the new quarter, which is making racists heads explode.
One guy on Facebook said, "Anna May isn't even her real name!"
My rebuttal was, "Would you feel that way about Mariyln? Her real name was Norma".
Ohhh I didn’t realize! I don’t live in the US.
My bad! Yes, this is US based because I forgot other countries can participate.
We just launched a new series of quarters highlighting historic females. Anna May Wong is the first. Maya Angelou and Dr Sally Ride are coming up next. The first Indigenous American female chief (I forget the tribe) and one more female will be featured.
Unless you work for the US Mint, saying "we just launched a new theory of quarters" is incorrect.
Also bi. Had a relationship with Marlene Dietrich. But people always gloss over that.
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Define "much better". Asian-American movie stars are still extremely rare.
Maya Angelou and Sally Ride were already minted. I think the Native American Chief was also minted and Anna May Wong is the last one for this year. They’ll mint more women every fiscal quarter for the next 4 years
I mean the representation isn't that far off 6.5% of roles while being 7.2% of the general population. Hispanics are the real ones getting shafted in film roles (only 5.7% of roles vs 19% of the general population)
Almost every actor changed their name back then. Marion Morrison, Archibald Leach & Bernard Scwartz would have been good rebuttals too.
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That’s not gloss…
I live near a US mint. Does that count?
Considering you didn't even get my quote right, I don't give a fuck.
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they still do, but they used to also
Well that's hot.
Shanghai Express is a great movie with her in it if your looking for something to watch with Anna. It's a dark and hazy 1932 pre code film, good for a late night watch.
Her Korean American high school classmate Philip Anh drove her to an audition and was offered a part, leading to his own film career
Before crazy rich Asians, Hollywood was still straight up white washing and yellow facing Asians and Asian stories.
John Wayne’s real name is Marion Robert Morrison
RedSonGamble t1_it014kg wrote
In 1935, Wong was dealt the most severe disappointment of her career, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer refused to consider her for the leading role of the Chinese character O-Lan in the film version of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. MGM instead cast Luise Rainer to play the leading role in yellowface. One biographer believes that the choice was due to the Hays Code anti-miscegenation rules requiring the wife of a white actor, Paul Muni (ironically playing a Chinese character in yellowface) to be played by a white actress.[6] But the 1930-1934 Hays Code of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America insisted only that "miscegenation (sex relationship between the white and black races) was forbidden" and said nothing about Asian/white intermarriages.[7] Other biographers have not corroborated this theory, including historian Shirley Jennifer Lim's Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern.[8] MGM screen-tested Wong for the supporting role of Lotus, the seductress, but it is ambiguous whether she refused the role on principle or was rejected.[9]
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