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Hollywood’s First Asian American Star Anna May Wong Celebrated in L.A. Museum Show
Anna May Wong — born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles on Jan. 3, 1905 — is widely recognized as Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star. A year before she died in 1961 from a heart attack at age 56, she joked that her epitaph should be, “I died a thousand …