PDF [DOWNLOAD] Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's

Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Anna-May-Wong-From-Laundryman-s.pdf
ISBN: 9781641608831 | 304 pages | 8 Mb

• Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
• Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Graham Russell Gao Hodges
• Page: 304
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781641608831
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Download Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend

Ebook downloads online free Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend CHM PDF MOBI (English literature) 9781641608831

Overview

Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors.   Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant’s difficult path through the prejudices of American culture.   Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children born to a laundryman and his wife. Childhood experience fueled her fascination with Hollywood. By 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, The Red Lantern, and she continued to act up until her death. Her most famous film roles were in The Toll of the Sea, Peter Pan, The Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco, and Shanghai Express.   But discrimination against Asiana, in both in the film industry and society, was commonplace, and when it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, she was passed over for the Chinese female lead role, which was ultimately given to the white actor Luise Rainer. In a narrative that recalls the pathos of life in Los Angeles’s Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood’s pleasure palaces, Graham Russell Gao Hodges recovers the life of a Hollywood legend.

More eBooks:
PDF EPUB Download Saturdays and Teacakes by Lester L. Laminack, Chris Soentpiet, Lester L. Laminack, Chris Soentpiet Full Book
Read [Pdf]> Induction: Her world just got a whole lot scarier. by S.E. Sharp, S.E. Sharp
PDF [Download] Spy School Project X by Stuart Gibbs, Stuart Gibbs
[download pdf] Krivda, the Godtrix Against the Matrix by
DOWNLOADS Sea, sexisme and sun - Chroniques du sexisme ordinaire