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Baby Picture of Anna May Wong
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1934 caption from Paramount Productions: "ANNA MAY WONG IN ARMS. The large-eyed little girl, seated in her mother's lap, is Anna May Wong, Chinese film star, who has grown up to be rated the most sophisticated woman in the world, and the outstanding Oriental beauty. Anna May has just completed a Hollywood trip from London to complete 'Limehouse Blues' with George Raft and Jean Parker. Standing in this photo is Anna May's sister, Ying Wong. The mother, who died three years ago, was Mrs. Wong Sam Sing."
1905
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Publicity Still with Anna May Wong, Estelle Taylor, and Herbert Brenon
1924
Actresses Anna May Wong and Estelle Taylor are hitched to a decrepit carriage driven by director Herbert Brenon in a publicity still for the 1924 Famous Players-Lasky production "The Alaskan." Bren...
Portrait of Anna May Wong
1924
Actress Anna May Wong stands with her hands palms up in front of her waist. She wears a silk robe with flowers on the front and a high stiff-necked button collar shirt. Wong looks directly at the...
Anna May Wong Baby Photo
Photograph of Anna May Wong as a small child of eighteen months. She is wearing a traditional Chinese robe and headpiece.
Pola Negri Publicity Still
1925
A glamorous head and shoulders publicity still of Pola Negri dressed for the role of the Countess Elnora Natatorini in the 1925 Paramount production "A Woman of the World." She wears a jeweled head...
Charles Ray in "The Sheriff's Son"
1919
Royal Beaudry (played by Charles Ray) peers cautious from the open door of a rough stone building with a revolver in his hand in a scene still from "The Sheriff's Son" (Paramount, 1919).
"Too Late Blues"
circa 1961
Costume sketch by Edith Head for Stella Stevens' character Jess Polanski in the film "Too Late Blues." The dress is black velvet with white fox cuffs.
