Thank you Katie. It was wonderful to read about her in your piece. Another slice of a Grandma's life that only revealed itself recently. I did not know her well, but it was wonderful to see her on screen, in the movie, if only for a few mins.
The Hollywood Chinese name game would be funny if it weren't so ghastly! Savage Innocents does sound grotesque, and Hoberman's comments inexcusable. Grand sleuthing, Katie!!! And congrats on the early raves!
will order up the book asap. Anna May Wong LIVES !! Have visited her grave site 3 times with always hope she can have a place somewhere in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. She deserves more.
A coda to the newspaper article about Anna May Wong’s involvement in the European car crash-there was a retraction of the article [nice start, but never undoes the damage]. She and others might have felt she should have received damages against the publisher [she did not].
But at least one head did roll in the newspaper business. I saw reported in several news accounts that the correspondent responsible for the article’s publication was one William Shirer. That is the same name as a famous journalist and author of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”.
I won’t compound the same name-game error by stating that the famous Shirer lost his job because of the story, without proof certain.
But it’s clear a reporter _did_ get canned for the story. And that reporter’s name is as indicated.
Thank you very much. The Malaysian Anna May Wong was my grandmother and she recently passed away.
Wow. Thank you for sharing that, Calvin. I appreciate you reaching out. My condolences to you and your family. May your grandmother rest in peace.
Thank you Katie. It was wonderful to read about her in your piece. Another slice of a Grandma's life that only revealed itself recently. I did not know her well, but it was wonderful to see her on screen, in the movie, if only for a few mins.
The Hollywood Chinese name game would be funny if it weren't so ghastly! Savage Innocents does sound grotesque, and Hoberman's comments inexcusable. Grand sleuthing, Katie!!! And congrats on the early raves!
will order up the book asap. Anna May Wong LIVES !! Have visited her grave site 3 times with always hope she can have a place somewhere in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. She deserves more.
Thank you! And me too.
Hi. That Anna must almost certainly be the actress who played the spider woman in an ATV series The Voodoo Factor, shows in late 1959/60.
A coda to the newspaper article about Anna May Wong’s involvement in the European car crash-there was a retraction of the article [nice start, but never undoes the damage]. She and others might have felt she should have received damages against the publisher [she did not].
But at least one head did roll in the newspaper business. I saw reported in several news accounts that the correspondent responsible for the article’s publication was one William Shirer. That is the same name as a famous journalist and author of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”.
I won’t compound the same name-game error by stating that the famous Shirer lost his job because of the story, without proof certain.
But it’s clear a reporter _did_ get canned for the story. And that reporter’s name is as indicated.