| Title: |
Reminiscences of Sessue Hayakawa
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A76
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Popular Arts Project, Part III
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| Description: |
Childhood and early adulthood in Japan; emigration to United States, University of Chicago, 1909; Japanese theater in Los Angeles, 1914; career in silent films; "Typhoon," work for Paramount, owner film company, 1917-'20s; filmmaking in France, "Rabbatais"; command performance for British royal family, 1923; Paris during 1920s; first role in sound pictures "Daughter of the Dragon" 1930; occupied France during World War II; filming "The Bridge on the River Kwai" 1957; reminiscences of directors Cecil B. DeMille, D.W. Griffith, David Lean and others.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 95 leaves, Tape: 1 reel
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1959 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hayakawa, Sessue, 1889-1973
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1889
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| Speaker occupation: |
Actor
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| Age at speaking: |
70
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| Document date: |
1959
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| Interviewer: |
Franklin, Joan; Franklin, Robert
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Japan; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Actors; Asia; Japan; Motion picture acting; Motion picture industry; Motion picture producers and directors; North America; Oral history; Silent films; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Hayakawa, Sessue, 1889-1973
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0020337-15779
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