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  2. Flower Drum Song (film) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Flower Drum Song - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Patrick Adiarte - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Nancy Kwan - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, she starred in Flower Drum Song in a related role. The film was distinguished for being the "first big-budget American film" with an all-Asian cast. [26] [note 6] Kwan did not sing the songs in the musical film; the vocals for Linda Low were performed by B. J. Baker. [31] Comparing Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song, she found

  6. Jack Soo - Wikipedia

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    Soo had been working in San Francisco at the Forbidden City, a Chinese nightclub and cabaret, where he was discovered by the actor and dancer Gene Kelly who was the director for Flower Drum Song. [2] Soo switched to the Sammy Fong role [ 6 ] (Chinatown's " Nathan Detroit ") during the run and played the role when the film version (1961) of the ...

  7. 'Cambodian Rock Band,' revised 'Flower Drum Song' lead East ...

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    The season wraps with a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Flower Drum Song" (May 28-June 21, 2026), featuring a newly updated book by David Henry Hwang.

  8. Irene Tsu - Wikipedia

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    The choreographer brought Irene to Hollywood and she was a teenage dancer in the film Flower Drum Song (1961), directed by Henry Koster. [2] He gave her her first speaking role as a teenage prostitute in his next film, Take Her, She's Mine (1963) starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee, which started her acting career. [citation needed]

  9. The Flower Drum Song - Wikipedia

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    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 .