ANNA MAY WONG (1925) Early portrait by Irving Chidnoff
$1,500.00
[New York: Chidnoff Studio, 1925]. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Condition is superb, fine.
Anna May Wong became the first Chinese American movie star when she played the lead in the first Technicolor (two-color) production, The Toll of the Sea in 1922. By 1925 she was making five films a year, including two box office spectacles in 1924: The Thief of Bagdad and Peter Pan. Russian-born celebrity photographer Irving Chidnoff founded his studio in New York City in 1925 and Wong became one of his first portraiture subjects.
