Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong

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The result was: not scheduled by Brianboulton (talk) 09:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)



Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage and radio. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became a fashion icon and by 1924 had achieved international stardom. Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in Hollywood, Wong left for Europe in the late 1920s, where she starred in several notable plays and films, among them Piccadilly (1929). She spent the first half of the 1930s traveling between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. Wong was featured in films of the early sound era, such as Daughter of the Dragon (1931) and Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and with Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932).
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 * Main editors: Dekkappai
 * Promoted: June 13, 2008
 * Reasons for nomination: Being the first CHinese American movie star and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition i thought that her article needs to be on the main page of wikipedia
 * Support as nominator. A8v (talk) 23:49, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Unless anyone can give a good reason for rerunning this article, I or another TFA coordinator will close this nomination. Wong ran on the main page on 3 August 2008. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:28, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Aside from the fact that it has run before, it is in no fit condition for the main page, with multiple unsourced statements, broken links etc. I am closing this nomination. Brianboulton (talk) 09:10, 6 July 2015 (UTC)