7 Facts About Anna May Wong - Page 6 of 9

Wong was one half of the first Asian-American couple in a sound movie

In 1937’s Daughter of Shanghai, Wong and Korean-American actor Philip Ahn became “the first self-representing Asian American romantic couple in sound-era Hollywood cinema,” according to Hye Seung Chung in Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-ethnic Performance. There was much media speculation as to a romantic relationship between Wong and Ahn, who were long-time friends stemming back to childhood. Wong shrugged off the rumors, saying that marrying Ahn “would be like marrying my brother.”