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Flower Drum Song is a 1961 American musical film directed by Henry Koster, adapted from the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, in turn based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author Chin Yang Lee.
Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee.It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour.
Film Year Title Role Notes 1956: The King and I: Prince Chulalongkorn: 1960: High Time: T.J. Padmanagham: 1961: Flower Drum Song: Wang San: 1965: John Goldfarb, Please Come Home: Prince Ammud: 1966: Step Out of Your Mind: Barney: Television Year Title Role Notes 1961: The Enchanted Nutcracker: Prince: TV movie 1967: The Final War of Olly Winter ...
Irene Tsu (born November 4, 1945, Shanghai, China) is an actress who started in the film Flower Drum Song in 1961. She was featured in an advertising campaign ( Wiki wiki dollar ) in the 1960s. She speaks English and three varieties of Chinese .
The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee, first published in 1957. The novel tells the story of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco , and was a bestseller in its time. It is the basis of 1958 musical Flower Drum Song , and later a movie of the same title was released in 1961, starring Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta .
Featuring classic Cambodian rock hits and songs from the L.A. band Dengue Fever, the play made its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in 2018 and has since been programmed all over the country.
James Saburo Shigeta (Japanese: 繁田 三郎; June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor and singer of Japanese descent. [1] He was noted for his roles in The Crimson Kimono (1959), Walk Like a Dragon (1960), Flower Drum Song (1961), Bridge to the Sun (1961), Midway (1976), Die Hard (1988), and Mulan (1998).
Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) [1] was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary – a role that garnered her the Tony Award – and Flower Drum Song as Madame Liang.