Vintage 8x10 Contact Sheet Singer, dancer, actress Jadin Wong 1942

Description: See My other items I Combine Shipping on Multiple Item Orders !! Jadin Wong (May 24, 1913 – March 30, 2010)[2] was an American singer, dancer, actress, and comedian. Wong married three times. Her first husband was Li Sun from British Singapore, whom she divorced. She then married Edward Duryea Dowling.[6][7] This second marriage was her longest marriage. More than a decade after Dowling's death, Wong married baseball champion Gil Chichester Wong was a celebrity, diva, and grand dame who discovered John Lone[citation needed]. She performed ballet right into her 90s, where she was caught by an interviewing journalist doing splits and pirouettes as "morning exercise". She studied with Balanchine and trained in classical ballet and jazz. Wong performed in Hong Kong, Paris, Cuba, Germany and New York during her younger days in Charlie Low's Forbidden City (nightclub). Wong retired from performing on Broadway and cabaret comedy and went into theatrical agenting in the 1970s, creating the Jadin Wong Talent Management, where she cast for Bernardo Bertolucci and brought David Henry Hwang to fame with her theatrical connections. Clients included David Henry Hwang, John Lone, Joan Chen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lucy Liu and Bai Ling.[9] AwardsShe was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Lincoln Center, New York in winter of 2002. Her thank you speech quoted in The New York Times was, "Age is just a number, and I have an unlisted number."[3] Ben Stiller has been quoted in the press as calling Jadin Wong the "original Dragon Lady", before Ziyi Zhang

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