Marion E. Wong created the Mandarin Film Company in Oakland, California and served as its president.
In an interview with the Oakland Tribune in 1916, she expressed her interest in presenting Chinese culture to American audiences through film.
She produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for The Curse of Quon Gwon, the only film her company made.
[2] In 1969, Violet Wong told her grandson Gregory Mark about a film canister in the basement of the family home and said: "You do something with it."
[2] In 2004, filmmaker Arthur Dong learned of two nitrate reels and the 16mm print containing footage from The Curse of Quon Gwon that were in the possession of Violet Wong's descendants while researching his documentary film Hollywood Chinese.