“Decades before the civil rights-generated category of Asian American existed, Wong grappled with how to be an Asian American actress,” Shirley Jennifer Lim, a Stony Brook University history professor, wrote in her book about Wong’s career. 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. Mint on Monday will begin producing coins pressed with Wong’s image, a close-up of her face resting on an elegant, manicured hand. Part of a new effort that also put the writer Maya Angelou and the astronaut Sally Ride on currency, the U.S. Now Wong is gaining another coveted role - on the quarter. 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.” Over the decades-long career that followed, she rose to become the first Asian American film star in Hollywood. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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.
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