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Actresses --- Motion pictures --- Theater --- History --- History
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Monroe, Marilyn --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- United States --- Biography
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Anna May Wong was one of Hollywood's most well-known Chinese American actresses. Between 1919 and 1960, she starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Marlene Dietrich and Werner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant's difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of six children born to a laundryman and his wife. Her life there fuelled her fascination with Hollywood and, in 1919 she secured a small part in her first film, 'The Red Lantern'. Her most famous film roles were in 'Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco' and 'Shanghai Express'. Discrimination against Asians, though, was commonplace and when it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck's 'The Good Earth', she was passed over for the role that was ultimately given to the Luise Rainer as producers thought Wong was "too Asian" for the role. In a narrative that recalls both the pathos of life in Los Angeles's Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood's pleasure palaces, Graham Hodges recounts the life of a Hollywood legend.
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When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.
Interpersonal relations --- Conduct of life --- Actors and actresses --- Indiana
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Articles on history of Hindi motion pictures.
Filmindustrie. --- Filmkunst. --- Motion Pictures as Topic --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Motion picture actors and actresses. --- Motion picture actors and actresses. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- History. --- History --- India. --- India.
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Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Radio actors and actresses --- Radio actors and actresses. --- Radio programs --- Radio programs. --- Émissions radiophoniques --- History and criticism --- United States.
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