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Anna May Wong (1905–61) first became entranced with movies when she saw silent films being made in San Francisco’s Chinatown. In her teens, she decided to become a film star and in a few years she landed a role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Baghdad (1924). Hong’s (Between the Lines: Asian American Women’s Poetry) documentary examines how an independent, “modern” Asian American woman struggled to find a place in Hollywood. Wong quickly grew tired of dragon lady roles, eventually turni...Log In or Sign Up to Read More