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Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Chop Suey

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The Young Mr. Pitt (1943)

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Flower Drum Song - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for Flower Drum Song (1961), starring Nancy Kwan. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

The Crimson Kimono - Lobby Card

Here is a Lobby Card from Columbia Pictures' The Crimson Kimono (1959), directed by Sam Fuller. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

The Crimson Kimono - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for Columbia's The Crimson Kimono (1959), directed by Samuel Fuller. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

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Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Chop Suey Another Rodgers & Hammerstein original which has long split opinion (Is it cultural stereotyping or knowing commentary?), Juanita Hall reprising her stage role as Madame Liang of San Francisco, receiving a citizenship award then supported by Jim Shigeta (who, it is sometimes forgotten, started out as a singer), Jack Soo, Benson Fong et al, in Flower Drum Song, 1961.

Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Such Fun Going Steady James Shigeta (as Wang Ta) and Nancy Kwan (as showgirl Linda) discuss their immediate future in a San Francisco Chinatown cafe in director Henry Koster's Flower Drum Song, 1961, from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.

Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Going to Like it Here James Shigeta (as student Wang Ta, scion of a prosperous San Francisco Chinese family) greets Miyoshi Umeki (as picture-bride Mei Li), just arrived from China, leading into her Asian-inflected song by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, in Flower Drum Song, 1961.

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Down Here In Little Tokyo Writer-director Sam Fuller working on one side of L-A’s Little Tokyo then the other, first James Shigeta as Kojaku interviews nuns outside the old Maryknoll School, then partner Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) shows witness Christine (Victoria Shaw) the layout from the old (then-new-ish) Parker Center LAPD headquarters, in The Crimson Kimono, 1959.

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) A Lot Of Citizens Cave In L-A police detective Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) has just asked artist Christine (Victoria Shaw) to attempt a sketch of a possible suspect who hired her to do an earlier painting linked to the spectacular murder of a stripper, in writer-producer-director Sam Fuller’s The Crimson Kimono, 1959.

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Sugar Torch Nudie Dolls Credits then the shocker opening, which writer-producer-director Sam Fuller called one of the toughest he ever shot, with hidden cameras on location around Main St. & 6th in downtown L-A, Gloria Pall the featured act, in The Crimson Kimono, 1959, starring Victoria Shaw, James Shigeta and Glenn Corbett.

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) She Was Gonna Crack Vegas After the spectacular opening shooting of a statuesque stripper on a downtown L-A street, writer-director-producer Sam Fuller introduces his two leading men, James Shigeta and Glenn Corbett, as war-buddies, roommates and police detective team Kojaku and Bancroft, interviewing the stripper’s manager (Paul Dubov), in The Crimson Kimono, 1959.

Bridge To The Sun (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Love Is A Luxury First Japanese diplomat “Terry” Terasaki (James Shigeta) then Tenneseean Gwen (Carroll Baker, as the author of the original book) are called before his boss in Washington, D.C., 1935, recommending against his proposal, later consoled by her aunt (Ruth Masters), in Bridge To The Sun, 1961.

Bridge To The Sun (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Even If They Are Japanese Opening from MGM and debutante Belgian director Etienne Perier, introducing Carroll Baker as the author of the underlying memoir, Sean Garrison and Ruth Masters her escorts at a Washington, D.C. reception, and Hawaiian-born James Shigeta as the Japanese-diplomat leading man, in Bridge To The Sun, 1961.

Bridge To The Sun (1961) -- (Movie Clip) His Imperial Majesty Her first day in Tokyo, 1935, American bride Gwen (Carroll Baker), with Japanese diplomat husband “Terry” (James Shigeta), has some trouble with the emperor, does better with his pals (Tetsuro Tamba, Hiroshi Tomono), but less-so with his hostess aunt, in MGM’s Bridge To The Sun, 1961.

Carol For Another Christmas, A (1964) -- (Movie Clip) No More Faces Singer Steve Lawrence, impressive as the doughboy "Ghost Of Christmas Past," brings Scrooge-derived Drudge (Sterling Hayden) to Hiroshima, recalling nurse Eva Marie Saint and doctor James Shigeta, in the Rod Serling scripted TV movie riff on Dickens, A Carol For Another Christmas, 1964.

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