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Miyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, Umeki Miyoshi, or ミヨシ・ウメキ Miyoshi Umeki, May 8, 1929 – August 28, 2007) was a Japanese American singer and actress. [2] Umeki was nominated for the Tony Award and Golden Globe Award and was the first East Asia-born woman to win an Academy Award for acting.
Sayonara is a 1957 American romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán.
Starring in the movie were Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, James Hong, Reiko Sato, Victor Sen Yung, and the original Broadway cast members Jack Soo, Miyoshi Umeki, and Juanita Hall (an African American actress who had previously played the Tonkinese Bloody Mary in the Broadway and film productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South ...
The father-son duo's domestic arrangements are managed, with great discretion, by their Japanese housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston (Miyoshi Umeki). Her sage advice adds to the comedic mix in situations where she looks after Eddie, and sometimes helps him further his schemes to marry off his father and find a new mother. Mrs.
Miyoshi Umeki won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in for Sayonara (1957). In the legacy of Sessue Hayakawa , James Shigeta often in his early career in the late 1950s-1960s played romantic male lead roles even interracial ones, which as an actor of Asian descent during his time was almost non-existent.
Miyoshi Umeki; Y. Patti Yasutake; Jenny Yokobori; Catalina Yue; Yuriko (dancer) This page was last edited on 8 October 2022, at 01:56 (UTC). Text is available ...
With The Courtship of Eddie's Father co-stars, Brandon Cruz and Miyoshi Umeki. Bixby was nominated for the Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1971. The following year, he won the Parents Without Partners Exemplary Service Award for 1972. Bixby made his directorial debut on the sitcom in 1970, directing eight episodes.
Miyoshi Umeki played Mei Li. The three producers sought Chinese, or at least Asian, actors to fill the cast, an idea that was, at the time, considered "very risky". [14] In the 1950s, there were relatively few Asian-American actors; [20] Rodgers believed that Asians avoided acting because of shyness. [21]