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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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
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]
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 .