Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, was featured on the back of the American quarter in 2022, marking a significant moment in US coinage history and celebrating her trailblazing legacy. The inclusion of Wong's image on the quarter is part of the American Women Quarters Program, which aims to honor prominent women in American history and their accomplishments by featuring them on the coin. Despite facing racial discrimination and limited opportunities in Hollywood, Wong took control of her own career and achieved success, making her a deserving choice for the quarter and earning other honors such as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2022 saw an important moment in US coinage history, as legendary Asian American actress Anna May Wong was featured on the back of the American quarter. Born on January 3, 1905, Wong became both the very first Chinese American movie star and a trailblazing historical...
2022 saw an important moment in US coinage history, as legendary Asian American actress Anna May Wong was featured on the back of the American quarter. Born on January 3, 1905, Wong became both the very first Chinese American movie star and a trailblazing historical...
- 10/25/2023
- by Timothy Lee
- ScreenRant
As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out. The great movie factories were so prolific, none of them have succeeded in making anything like all their major works available on the repertory circuit, home video, television, or streaming, but Fox now seems particularly indifferent to providing any access to their catalog, so focusing on them seems fair. I hope to illuminate the movies Fox ought to be proud of, and a few you couldn't blame them for wanting to hide under a rock.Oh, and we're doing it chronologically, so first up is a crummy kids' film from 1917.Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp is directed by workhorses Sidney and Chester M. Franklin, perhaps best remembered for the Dorothy Gish...
- 1/22/2020
- MUBI
Nowadays we take color for granted. When a monochromatic film is released, it receives more attention for the sheer fact that it is different. Now imagine it’s 1923 and you’re seeing “The Toll of the Sea,” Hollywood’s first color feature produced by the “forgotten pioneer” Herbert Kalmas. You’re flabbergasted, no doubt, and what the film lacks in background and plot, it makes up for in sheer radiance. Kalmas was a student at MIT who didn’t have a particular interest in the film industry, but he was certainly interested in the scientific intricacies. His experiments eventually came to utilize various color lenses on film (remembering that white light incorporates every color of the spectrum) and once he received funding from the Bon Ami company (George Eastman notably turned him down) Kalmas founded the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation. (They adapted the name as an ode to MIT.) Read...
- 12/16/2015
- by Samantha Vacca
- The Playlist
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Throughout summer it has been difficult to ignore the recent Chinoiserie trend in stores and magazines, kick-started by the opulent Louis Vuitton show in Paris and merged effortlessly into autumn by Paul Smith. Cheongsam collars and qipao slits aside, this new-found interest in the East may have been partly triggered by China’s growing appetite for high-end goods, which despite recent economic setbacks, has left Western luxury brands competing for a share of this very sizable market.
This obsession with the ‘Orient’ has also seen a proliferation of Asian models on catwalks and throughout editorial spreads, which has courted controversy for some publications and raises all manner of questions regarding ethnicity and standards of beauty. Whilst researching this trend it becomes impossible not to contemplate the...
Throughout summer it has been difficult to ignore the recent Chinoiserie trend in stores and magazines, kick-started by the opulent Louis Vuitton show in Paris and merged effortlessly into autumn by Paul Smith. Cheongsam collars and qipao slits aside, this new-found interest in the East may have been partly triggered by China’s growing appetite for high-end goods, which despite recent economic setbacks, has left Western luxury brands competing for a share of this very sizable market.
This obsession with the ‘Orient’ has also seen a proliferation of Asian models on catwalks and throughout editorial spreads, which has courted controversy for some publications and raises all manner of questions regarding ethnicity and standards of beauty. Whilst researching this trend it becomes impossible not to contemplate the...
- 10/18/2011
- by Contributor
- Clothes on Film
To mark the release of the Anna Wong double bill including Java Head and Tiger Bay on DVD now, Optimum Home Entertainment have been given three copies to give away!
Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961) was the first Asian American movie star to become an international star. Her career spanned over four decades. She started in Technicolor’s first two-strip color movie, The Toll of the Sea (1922) and was chosen by Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. to be in The Thief of Bagdad (1924), and co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932). Both Hollywood and Europe proclaimed her exoticism and she became known for her fluid grace and languid sexuality on screen.
Java Head (1934) – Directed by Thorold Dickinson & J. Walter Ruben and starring Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan and John Loder
A heavy-breathing melodrama of the White Cargo school, Java Head was adapted from the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer.
The port city of Bristol, England,...
Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961) was the first Asian American movie star to become an international star. Her career spanned over four decades. She started in Technicolor’s first two-strip color movie, The Toll of the Sea (1922) and was chosen by Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. to be in The Thief of Bagdad (1924), and co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932). Both Hollywood and Europe proclaimed her exoticism and she became known for her fluid grace and languid sexuality on screen.
Java Head (1934) – Directed by Thorold Dickinson & J. Walter Ruben and starring Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan and John Loder
A heavy-breathing melodrama of the White Cargo school, Java Head was adapted from the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer.
The port city of Bristol, England,...
- 6/24/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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