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. Wong was featured in films of the early sound era, and went on to appear in Daughter of the Dragon (1931), with Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932), Java Head (1934), and Daughter of Shanghai (1937). She spent the first half of the 1930s traveling between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. In 1934, the Mayfair Mannequin Society of New York voted her the 'world's best dressed woman.' In the 1920s and 1930s, Wong was acclaimed as one of the top fashion icons.įrustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in Hollywood, Wong left for Europe in March 1928, where she starred in several notable plays and films, among them Piccadilly (1929).

Wong had been one of the first to embrace the flapper look. Wong became a fashion icon and had achieved international stardom in 1924. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first films made in color, and in Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924).

Her varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.īorn in Los Angeles to first-generation Taishanese Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with films and began acting in films at an early age. Wong Liu Tsong (Janu– February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese-American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese-American actress to gain international recognition.

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