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Gr 2-5 Although Wongs days were filled with backbreaking work as she helped in her familys San Francisco Chinese laundry, her daydreams were replete with visions of life as a film star. Anna saw every movie she could, and eventually, despite her parents opposition, she became a movie extra. As a young woman in the 1920s, beautiful and unusually tall, she was given supporting roles, but, distressed by the stereotypical characters Chinese actors were forced to portray, she decided to pursue her career in Europe. When she returned to Hollywood in 1935, she discovered that nothing had changed. Aft...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Anna May longed to escape her family's Chinatown laundry for Hollywood's silver screen. But when her dream became reality in the early 1920s, th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More