Anna May Wong FBI Files

Anna May Wong FBI Files

333 pages of FBI files chiefly covering an extortion attempt against Anna May Wong and the wife of David O. Selznik.

Anna May Wong was Born in 1905, Wong was the daughter of a Chinese immigrant who ran a Los Angeles laundry.

In 1921,  at the age of 16, Anna May Wong became the first widely recognized Asian-American film star. In 1951, she also became the first Asian-American to have her own television series, “The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong.”

As simultaneously a star, yet one whose roles were necessarily limited, at least in the studio’s view, by ethnicity, Wong’s career oscillated between major roles and character parts or exotic bits in Chinatown or far eastern scenes. As a result she played the romantic lead in “The Toll of the Sea” (1922), a seductive spy opposite Douglas Fairbanks in “The Thief of Bagdad” (1924), and a barmaid temptress in “Across to Singapore” (1928).

 On February 3, 1961, at the age of 56, Wong died of a heart attack as she slept at home in Santa Monica,