Author: Barbara Quarshie

Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese American film star. In addition to her roles in silent films, television, and the stage, Wong was cast in one of the first Technicolor films. Wong left Hollywood after many years of attempting to work in American films due to constant discrimination. She relocated to Europe, where she…

Anna May Wong was an American actress who was widely regarded as the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star and the first Chinese-American actress to achieve international acclaim. During her four-decade film career, Wong never won an Oscar. Her diverse career included work in silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio. Wong appeared in…

Anna May Wong is the first Asian American to appear on US currency as one of the first women depicted on the reverse of the quarter in the 2022-2025 American Women quarters series. According to Mint director Ventris C. Gibson, “The fifth coin in our American Women Quarters Program honours Anna May Wong, a courageous advocate…

Anna May Wong was an American actress who was the first Chinese-American actress to achieve international acclaim. Anna May Wong learned to speak English, Chinese, French, German, and Italian during her career. Anna May Wong spoke German and French so well that critics couldn’t believe they were hearing her rather than a native actress. Anna May…

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was a film and television actor from the United States. Yelchin was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, on March 11, 1989. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of six months after being born in the Soviet Union to a Russian-Jewish family. As a child…

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was a film and television actor from the United States. Yelchin was 27 years old when he was killed by his car outside his Los Angeles home on June 20, 2016. He had planned to see his friends before the terrible accident. According to Los Angeles police, he was found dead by…

Kristin Smart was an American woman who disappeared in 1996 and was legally declared dead in 2002. Kristin Smart was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany, on February 20, 1977, to Stan and Denise Smart, both teachers to children of American military personnel. Denise and Stan Smart, who are in their 70s, live in Stockton,…

Kristin Smart was an American woman who disappeared and was found to have been murdered by Paul Flores near the end of her freshman year at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. On May 25, 1996, Smart attended an off-campus party hosted by a fellow Cal Poly University student. She was discovered passed out…

Kristin Smart disappeared on May 25, 1996. Kristin Smart was last seen on her way home from a party at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her body was never discovered. In 2002, Smart was declared dead. The disappearance of Kristin Smart prompted state legislation, including the Kristin Smart Campus Security Act. The Act…

Kristin Smart was a19 year-old American woman who was found to have been murdered by Paul Flores at the end of her freshman year at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Kristin Smart was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany, on February 20, 1977, to Stan and Denise Smart, both teachers to children of…