Barbie Unveils Anna Might Wong Doll for AAPI Heritage Month

Mattel introduced Monday the discharge of an Anna Might Wong doll for Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month.

The determine has her trademark bangs, eyebrows and well-manicured nails. The doll is wearing a crimson robe with a shiny golden dragon design and cape, impressed by her look within the 1934 film “Limehouse Blues.”

“I didn’t hesitate in any respect. It was such an honor and so thrilling,” Wong advised The Related Press in an e-mail. “I needed to verify they received her facial options and clothes appropriate. They usually did!”

As a toddler, Anna Wong owned a Barbie and Skipper doll (Barbie’s little sister) and a Barbie dream home and automobile. She loves the concept that Asian youngsters will now have a doll who seems to be like them.

The doll is a part of the Barbie “Inspiring Women” series, which options dolls within the likeness of pioneering ladies. Previous inspirations embody aviator Amelia Earhart and artist Frida Kahlo.

“As the primary Asian American actor to steer a U.S. tv present, whose perseverance broke down limitations for her gender and AAPI group in movie and TV, Anna Might Wong is the proper match for our Barbie Inspiring Girls Collection,” Lisa McKnight, an govt vice chairman at Mattel, stated in an announcement.

Born in Los Angeles, the Chinese language American actor is taken into account the primary main Asian American film star. She began out through the silent film period within the Nineteen Twenties and gained worldwide discover in movies like “The Thief of Bagdad” in addition to for her style sense. Within the ’30s, Anna Might Wong was performing reverse actors like Marlene Dietrich in “Shanghai Specific.” However in 1937, she misplaced the lead position of a Chinese language villager in “The Good Earth” to Luise Rainer, a white actor who went on to win a finest actress Oscar.

Within the ensuing many years, Anna Might Wong went to Europe to behave. However she later returned to the U.S. In In 1951, she led her personal tv present, “The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong.” The short-lived thriller collection was believed to be the primary with an Asian American lead.

In one other first, she was the primary Asian American girl to get a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame for performing in 1960. She died a 12 months later at age 56.

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