Posted on 10/18/2022 11:41:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES — As a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrants in this city’s Chinatown, Anna May Wong talked her way into her first role in a movie. Over the decades-long career that followed, she rose to become the first Asian American film star in Hollywood. When Wong died in 1961, The New York Times called the actress, known for her large, expressive eyes and flapper-era styles, “one of the most unforgettable figures of Hollywood’s great days.”
Now Wong is gaining another coveted role — on the quarter. Part of a new effort that also put writer Maya Angelou and astronaut Sally Ride on currency, the U.S. Mint on Monday will begin producing coins pressed with Wong’s image, a close-up of her face resting on an elegant, manicured hand.
The new quarter honors not just Wong’s trailblazing career but also the difficulties she faced trying to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in an era of “yellowface” and anti-miscegenation laws.
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“WHO?
Anna May Be Wong.”
Might as well make it Annabel Chong
What about Ana Ng?
Or “poets”
Whatta joke that is
I D I O T I C
We can’t point out how idiotic it is, because ‘racism’.
Spare me...
Well, I could see Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Oliver Wendell Holmes getting stamps, at least...but maybe they’ve already done that.
(Every time I thought of a great American poet, I had to add another one. We’ve had a lot of greats.)
Yeah but the affirmative action’d one isn’t a worthy “poet”
That’s why I put it in quotes
♫ You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of
People who worked, and suffered and struggled for fame
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain (yeah) ♪
They Might Be Giants, right?
Right.
Well, I guess appreciation for poetry is very subjective, like all of the arts are...
Can you really classify the soulless as alive?
For these purposes, yeah. Anything else on a case-by-case basis.
Anna Mae Wong is being exploited by the Democrats.
In her day, Wong’s acting ability seemed to be limited to presenting Asian females as erotic fetish objects.
Allegedly, Wong conducted a lengthy affair with General Douglas MacArthur.
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