The first Chinese American film star had to content with Hollywood’s racism.
was a commercial success in the United States, but Chinese government officials banned the film for what they understood as negative portrayals of Chinese persons.
In her films of this era, Wong transcends the typecasting, exhibiting the acting skills and screen presence that would have made her a perfect leading lady, but Hollywood failed her. Beyond simple racist myopia, the Hollywood production code prohibited depictions of mixed-race love on screen, making it nearly impossible for Wong to play a romantic lead.The Good Earth
, but once the white actor Paul Muni was cast as the male lead, producers instead hired white actress Louise Rainer for the role. Rainer went on to win an Oscar for Best Actress, and the entire episode was a major disappointment for Wong that soured her on Hollywood. Wong made another major overseas trip—this time to China in 1936—to visit her family. This was a complicated journey, and it was also fairly well-documented, with a Chinese government wrestling with the fact that stereotypical roles were being performed by a widely recognized superstar with a global platform., opposite Korean American actor and friend Philip Ahn, marking the earliest instance in American cinema of an Asian American couple on screen together.
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