Anna May Wong, Part 1: The Certificate of Identity
Anna May Wong was born in Los Angeles in 1905 and spent her life carrying a card that certified she had been admitted to her own country as a native, on a doctor's word.
Part 1 of 2: from a laundry on Figueroa Street to a Broadway stage in 1931, by way of Berlin. The modelling job at ten, the Chinese Exclusion Act file, the Technicolor lead at seventeen, the production company she founded at nineteen, and the reasons she gave for leaving America.
Part Two, The Dragon Dress, covers 1931 to 1961.
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