China/USA: Anna May Wong (3 January 1905 - 3 February 1961), Chinese-American movie star, wearing a cheongsam designed by Travis Banton. Publicity still from 'Limehouse Blues', 1934. Anna May Wong was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage and radio. Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age.

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