Anna May Wong

[cheiby11]

1928



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[cheiby11]

1928


American-Chinese film actress Anna May Wong wearing Oriental garb and hairstyle.



wearing a large straw hat and traditional Oriental shoes in front of a painted backdrop featuring ducks and an Oriental building.



Anna May Wong aiming a spear at a cartoon sea lion.



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[cheiby11]

1925



lovely hat



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[cheiby11]

1906

as a baby



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[Luxury's Lap]

Cheiby11!!!!!!!!!! I am literally doing this:

Unbeliveable!!!! I haven't seen 99% of those!!!! WOW!! Thanks!!!

 

[cheiby11]

It was my pleasure

I was as happy as you were when I found them... just adorable

 

[Luxury's Lap]

New photos!!!

Candid photo of Anna with actor Colin Clive (he played Dr. Frankenstein in the first sound version of Frankenstein (with Boris Karloff playing the monster). They weren't in any movies together, so I guess they were just friends.

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[Luxury's Lap]

Photos of Anna by famed photographer Edward Steichen in 1931 and 1932 (black coat from 1932, the other two are 1931).

(corbis; en.easyart.com)

 

[Luxury's Lap]

More candid style, from 1925.

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[Luxury's Lap]

I posted one from this set earlier; very happy to have found a few more...from 1938.

(corbis, ebay)

 

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Candid photo from 1933 of Anna lighting a cigarette for actor Ivan Lebedeff (no movies together).

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Showing off her home in 1931 (how fantastic is the one where she's standing?? )

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More of her fantastic candid style...

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[Luxury's Lap]

I love her portraits too...a few early ones from 1926.

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More portraits...

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[Luxury's Lap]

I found four photos from the same shoot on four different sites

(corbis; ebay; leonarmaltin.com; film.virtual-history.com)

 

[northernsky]

gooorgeous! i love how she could wear everything, those glamorous 20s dresses, chinese traditional costumes and casual clothing, and manage to look both incredibly elegant and natural in all of them.

 

[somnambule]

wow,cheiby and luxury´s lap,those are simply stunning !!especially the pics in post 82 .i have never seen anything like it before.they´re all the more extraordinary considering the fact that they were created in 1928.

i can only remember seeing one of anna may wong´s films : "the thief of bagdad" (which was one of her first screen appearances i suppose).therefore i´m not really familiar with her as an actress but regarding her style i agree with everything northernsky said.
it reminds me a bit of dolores del rio,who managed to mix traditional mexican clothing with the elegant hollywood style of her times and often created a wonderful,surprising and above all perfect symbiosis.

 

[cheiby11]

some pics of Anna from profimedia.cz

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[cheiby11]

I'll post more later, imageshack isn't working for me now