Reminiscences of Sessue Hayakawa : oral history, 1959.

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Reminiscences of Sessue Hayakawa : oral history, 1959.

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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.

Transcript: 95 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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