Oral history interview with Sessue Hayakawa, 1959
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- Name
- Hayakawa, Sesshū, 1889-1973 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Sessue Hayakawa, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Sessue Hayakawa, 1959
- Abstract
- 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 Fr ance 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. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Actors; Motion picture acting; Silent films; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture industry; Hayakawa, Sesshū, 1889-1973
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Note (Biographical)
- Actor
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 14835376
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-n29d-hr65
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.