7 Facts About Anna May Wong - Page 3 of 9

Wong starred in the first Technicolor feature

When most people think of Technicolor movies, they likely think about 1939’s The Wizard of Oz—but the first Technicolor feature actually hit theaters 17 years earlier. It was called The Toll of the Sea and starred a 17-year-old Wong in her first lead role. The asterisk comes from the fact that The Toll of the Sea was the first generally available Technicolor film—a movie called The Gulf Between came out earlier but required specialized projectors to screen, and thus was never generally available.