7 Facts About Anna May Wong - Page 7 of 9

She never got married, but that didn’t stop papers from spreading rumors

Wong was romantically linked to several men through her life—including Dracula and Freaks director Todd Browning and English entertainer Eric Maschwitz, who (it is rumored) wrote the song “These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)” about her—but none of those relationships have been definitively proven. Wong never married, though there was some confusion about that when, in a 1936 stop-over in Tokyo, she told a reporter that she was married “to my art.” Later, local papers reported that she had married a Cantonese businessman named “Art.”