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| When Wong (whose first name is actually Anna May)graduated from high school in the 1930s, she left her Stockton, Calif., home to chase her Hollywood dreams, something rarely heard of in the culturally isolated Chinese communities of the time. | |||
| She began her Hollywood career with roles in Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto flicks. But her first love was dancing, and eventually the tall, slender young woman received a scholarship to train and perform with the San Francisco Opera Ballet. | |||
| Some members of the Chinese community were taken aback by her provocative acts in the late '30s and early '40s at the Forbidden City, a club featuring all-Asian revues and stars like "The Chinese Sinatra" and "The Chinese Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers." | |||
| "The first eight months, we were ostracized," Wong said of those days of short skirts and high kicks. "They would say things like, 'Why don't the girls go get a good job?'" | |||
| In those early days, the club catered to a mostly white clientele. But with time, the Chinese community began patronizing the club, too, especially after Wong made the cover of Life magazine in 1940, an honor she attributes to her shapely breasts and long legs. | |||
| During the Second World War, Wong traveled overseas to entertain American soldiers. When the war ended, Wong returned to the United States to discover that the nightclub scene was beginning to drift as television invaded people's homes. | |||
| Wong set her sights overseas again, performing dance and song routines in cabarets all over Europe, and later in Asia. In the late '50s, she performed on the luxury cruise liner the Leonardo da Vinci. | |||
| Eventually, she found herself back in the United States, landing roles in Broadway plays including "The King and I" and in "The World of Suzie Wong." During this time she met the man who became her husband, Edward Dowling, a Broadway producer. He died in 1967. | |||
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| http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-05-15/471.asp | |||
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