Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words
Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words is a 2010 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Yunah Hong. It chronicles the life and career of the first Asian American Hollywood film star, Anna May Wong. The film later aired on KPBS (TV) May 23, 2014. Plot Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American Hollywood star. As a young girl she knew she wanted to be a movie star, and by 17 she had become one. She went on to act in nearly sixty films in Hollywood, London and Berlin. She was one of the few silent film actors to successfully transition to sound cinema and television. She co-starred with Marlene Dietrich, Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks along the way. She was beautiful, glamorous, talented and cultured, but she was typecast for most of her career as either a scheming dragon lady or a painted doll. Due to the Hays production code, she could never kiss a Caucasian man on screen, so she could never be the one to end up with the leading man. The documentary paints a vivid picture of a Hollywood original, summoning Wong's own words, from private correspondences and public interviews, to narrate her