According to the official website of the U.S. Mint, the bureau recently announced the establishment of the American WomenQuarters Program. The plan will issue up to five brand new 25 cent coins per year between 2022 and 2025.
Screenshot of the official website of the U.S. Mint
The coin will feature the heads of prominent American women from diverse fields, ethnicities, and diverse backgrounds. The first year of coin release included the first Chinese-American Hollywood actress, Anna May Wong.
Who is Yellow Willow Cream?
Born in California in 1905, Huang Liushuang was a third-generation Chinese immigrant with his ancestral home in Taishan, Guangdong Province. The parents run a local laundry to make ends meet.
Huang Liushuang, who has loved acting and watching movies since he was a child, began to run dragon sets in various movies at a young age.
In Hollywood in the 20th century, Most of the Chinese women played minor roles such as mistresses and slaves.
Yellow Willow Cream in the movie (video screenshot from American Masters PBS)
At the age of 14, Huang Liushuang's first film role was to play an English mistress in "Red Lantern", nameless and nameless.
At the age of 17, she starred in "The Death of the Sea", playing the Chinese girl Lotus, a hit, her amazing acting skills were greatly appreciated by the local mainstream media in the United States such as "Variety" and "The New York Times", and the amazing selling power made the filmmakers earn a lot of money.
Poster for the movie "The Sea Passed". (Video screenshot from American Masters PBS)
Among the Chinese actresses of the same era, Huang Liushuang has the most skilled acting skills. But because of the times and environment in which she grew up, she could not be used.
In 1928, she decided to leave the United States, which lacked an Asian stage, and went to Europe to develop. Huang Liushuang, who has a great talent for language, learned a London accent when he was in the United States, and even mastered a fluent German.
In the following two years, Huang Liushuang starred in five British films, one of which was called "Chinatown Prosperous Dream", which became a local hit in London, and Huang Liushuang also received a banquet invitation from the British royal family at that time.
After the great success in britain, the momentum of yellow willow cream in the United States also quickly reversed. In 1930, Paramount Pictures invited her back to the United States.
Newspaper reports in the newspapers at the time called her a "rising star on the screen." (Video screenshot from American Masters PBS)
In 1937, she participated in "Daughter of Shanghai", which was the first film after Huang Liushuang joined Paramount, and Huang Liushuang played a truly intelligent and resourceful heroine, which was also the positive Chinese image she starred in.
After that, Huang Liushuang began to experiment with stage plays, starring in 167 stage plays "Flash" on Broadway in New York.
Yellow Willow Cream (Video screenshot from American Masters PBS)
However, "Anti-Interracial Marriage Law" has become a major obstacle to Huang Liushuang's career, she can not kiss any European and American actors on the screen, and can only play the role of a chinese who is ugly in the eyes of typical Americans.
Huang Liushuang once asked in an interview with Movie Weekly: "Why are Chinese on the screen almost always villains?" And it's such a brutal villain — murderous, treacherous, sinister, reckless, and we're not the kind of people. How can we be like this? Our civilization is several times older than the civilization of the West. ”
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For his ancestral country, Huang Liushuang is also full of feelings, and at the end of January 1936, Huang Liushuang embarked on a nine-month journey to find his roots in China.
<h1 toutiao-origin="h1" > screenshot of Huang Liushuang's 1936 visit to Shanghai documentary</h1>
Shortly after returning to the United States, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, and Huang Liushuang issued a condemnation and wrote in a press release: "Although I was born in the United States like my parents, I was a pure Chinese, more Chinese than ever." She also began lobbying filmmakers to make films that showed Chinese positive image.
In addition, she has made several films to educate fans around the world about the crimes of the Japanese army in Asia. She donated all the remuneration for the two anti-Japanese propaganda films she participated in to the United Relief Society of China.
Screenshot of Huang Liushuang's 1936 visit to Shanghai documentary (American Masters PBS)
Huang Liushuang used all public occasions to call on the American people to actively support China's War of Resistance, and took out his jewelry to sell charity, and all the proceeds were remitted back to China to support the War of Resistance.
After that, Huang Liushuang retired from the film industry...
In 1960, Huang Liushuang, as the first Chinese, left a star of her own on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the United States. She also became a figurine of the "Hollywood Silver Four Lady's Belvedere" with Dorothy Delio, Dorothy Dandridge, May West and Marilyn Monroe.
On February 3, 1961, Huang Liushuang died of a sudden heart attack while taking a nap at home. A generation of Hollywood Chinese film stars fell.
In Huang Liushuang's long career, her acting career spanned silent films, sound films, television dramas, stage plays and radio dramas.
From the daughter of a Chinese washer to a movie star, Huang Liushuang has endured all the hardships that "Chinese women" may encounter. She spent her life pursuing her dreams with "courage and perseverance" and became a superstar of the Chinese generation in Hollywood.
Source: China News Network, China Overseas Chinese Network, The Paper, World Journal, etc
Author/Editor: Zeng Xiaowei
Editor-in-Charge: Historical Words
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