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Though she was a third-generation Chinese American, Anna May Wong had to file a special application to get traveling papers that proved she was a U.S. citizen and not an"alien" Chinese."She decided that she was no longer going to take on any unsympathetic roles," Salisbury said. "And she would only play roles that reflected well on her people."
After leaving the U.S. to act in films and plays in Europe, Wong returned to Hollywood to make the crime thrilleropposite the Korean American actor Philip Ahn. They were the heroes and all the villains were played by white actors.
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