Anna once had an affair with noted silent film director Marshall Neilan. Most of her romances tended towards Caucasian men, as many Chinese men looked down on actresses as prostitutes.

Was a Christian Scientist practitioner.

Spoke fluent French and German along with her native English and Chinese.

Buried in an unmarked grave in Angelus Rosedale Cemetary in Los Angeles.

Anna attended Hollywood High School, where she became a photographer's model.

The second of seven children, her siblings were Richard, Lulu, James, Frank, Roger and Mary. Mary once served as Anna's film understudy but died suddenly in early adulthood. Her father disapproved of Anna's acting career, which caused a severe strain in their relationship. Following Anna's mother's death in a car accident in 1931, they grew even further apart. Anna's will disinherited her father.

Never married, Anna is rumored to have been bisexual but that has never been definitely established.

Hollywood Walk of Fame 1700 Vine St. (motion pictures)

Her Chinese name means "Frosted Yellow Willow" in Chinese.

According to the British Film Institute biography, her birth name was Luong Liu Tsong.

Cousin of cinematographer James Wong Howe.

In 1956 Anna received a long-deferred chance to play a role she lost out on in 1940s Hollywood. Playing the Asian blackmailer in W. Somerset Maugham`s "The Letter" on TV, the director of the show was none other than William Wyler, who had originally nixed the idea of her playing the role in the Bette Davis classic film version of The Letter (1940). The part instead went to non-Asian Gale Sondergaard.

She was more often cast in "sinister oriental" roles only after actresses like Nita Naldi were forced out of motion pictures owing to the coming of sound.

In 1960, actor Anthony Quinn co-starred with Anna in her last film, Portrait in Black (1960). Quinn also starred as an Inuit in Nicholas Ray`s The Savage Innocents (1960). Co-starring with him was actress Marie Yang, who in this film was for some reason billed as Anna May Wong! It may be the only instance ever of an actor appearing with two actresses of the same name in the same year.

Enjoyed golfing, skiing, and horseback riding in her spare time.

Producer Ross Hunter cast her in the film version of Flower Drum Song (1961). However, she became ill in December of 1960 and was replaced by Juanita Hall.

Once coached Dorothy Lamour, who was appearing as a Eurasian girl in the film Disputed Passage (1939).

In the 1930s she toured in vaudeville and with her own one-woman show, traveling through Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries. In London, she had a widely praised nightclub engagement at the Embassy Club, where she sang and danced.