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🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Anna May Wong wasn't supposed to be in the movies. Her laundryman father was dead set against it. And Hollywood preferred white actors in "yellow face" for Asian characters. But Wong knew what she wanted. With her talent, beauty and tenacity, she ran a gauntlet of social and legal obstacles to become Hollywood's very first Chinese-American star. Mo talks with comedian Margaret Cho, actress Rosalind Chao and best-selling author Lisa See about the woman who is finally getting her due.
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0:00.0 | Hey Jeff Prope's Chair, host and executive producer of Survivor. |
0:03.8 | To celebrate the 44th season of our show, we launched an official survivor podcast called |
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0:30.0 | Don't you find respectable people terribly dull? |
0:41.7 | The year 1932, the movie Shanghai Express, starring Marlena Dietrich. |
0:49.0 | It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily. |
0:55.5 | Connecting alongside the German screen siren and every bit is cool, 27 year old Anna May |
1:02.9 | Wong. |
1:03.9 | I must confess I don't quite know the standard of respectability that you demand in your |
1:09.2 | boarding house. |
1:12.0 | In the movie both actresses play women of ill repute, but it was Wong's performance |
1:17.4 | that was publicly denounced by the Chinese media for bringing shame on her race. |
1:23.4 | The government has offered a price of 20,000 for his capture live or dead. |
1:28.3 | That was the movie that took my breath away that she was just unapologetic. |
1:32.4 | You better get her out of there. |
1:35.4 | I've just killed change. |
1:37.9 | Anna May Wong had already run a gauntlet of social and legal obstacles to become Hollywood's |
1:44.0 | very first Chinese American star. |
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