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    Miyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, Umeki Miyoshi, or ミヨシ・ウメキ Miyoshi Umeki, May 8, 1929 – August 28, 2007) was a Japanese American singer and actress. Umeki was nominated...
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  • 1962), Japanese speed skater Miyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, 1929–2007), Japanese-American actress and singer Miyoshi (surname) Miyoshi clan, Japanese clan This disambiguation...
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  • Japanese judoka Miyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, 1929–2007), Japanese-American singer and actress Tsubasa Umeki (梅木 翼, born 1998), Japanese footballer Umeki Webb (born...
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    starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán. It tells the story of...
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  • American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Miyoshi Umeki won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in for Sayonara (1957)...
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    with great discretion, by their Japanese housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston (Miyoshi Umeki). Her sage advice adds to the comedic mix in situations where she looks...
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    American author Chin Yang Lee. The film stars Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, Benson Fong and Juanita Hall. It was nominated for five Academy...
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  • mainstream theatre." Joshua Logan recommended a young Japanese actress, Miyoshi Umeki, whom he had discovered and cast the previous year opposite Marlon Brando...
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  • France Nuyen, with Martha Hyer, Gary Merrill, Michael Wilding, and Miyoshi Umeki. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ronald Kirkbride. A Girl...
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    well. The core cast was rounded out by Academy Award-winning actress Miyoshi Umeki, who played the role of Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston, James Komack...
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    filmed there. The title song is sung during the opening credits by Miyoshi Umeki, who has a major role in the movie. During the Korean War, Andy Cyphers...
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    Sayonara which starred Marlon Brando, James Garner, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki and Red Buttons; Umeki and Buttons both won the 1958 Academy Award ("Oscar") for...
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    Benedict Giant Patty McCormack Rhoda Penmark The Bad Seed 1957 (30th) Miyoshi Umeki ‡ Katsumi Kelly Sayonara Carolyn Jones 'The Existentialist' The Bachelor...
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    in several other films and TV shows with fellow performers such as Miyoshi Umeki, James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Toshirō Mifune. Taka was born...
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    Cruz (center) with The Courtship of Eddie's Father co-stars Bill Bixby and Miyoshi Umeki...
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  • different roles including Richard Deacon, Gale Gordon, Harvey Korman, Miyoshi Umeki, Doodles Weaver, and Dick Wilson. As Fabares co-starred in the Mickey...
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    Olive Sturgess Gloria Talbott Rip Torn Audrey Totter Forrest Tucker Miyoshi Umeki Lee Van Cleef Dick Van Patten James Whitmore Frank Wilcox Robert J....
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  • by Joshua Logan, starring Marlon Brando, James Garner, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), directed by Ingmar Bergman,...
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    the film,— Li, Shirley (2018-02-22). Goldblatt, Henry (ed.). "Why did Miyoshi Umeki, the only Asian actress to ever win an Oscar, destroy her trophy?"....
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  • Freddy Fields – Agent Robert Lantz – Agent Ray Kurtzman – Executive Miyoshi Umeki – Singer, actress Suzanne Pleshette – Actress Deborah Kerr – Actress...
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  • Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka as Major Gruver and Hana-ogi, respectively. Miyoshi Umeki won an Academy Award in 1958 for her portrayal of Katsumi in that film...
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    and Asian to be nominated for and to win Best Costume Design in 1954, Miyoshi Umeki is the first Japanese and Asian to be nominated for and to win Best...
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  • non-White woman to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant. That same year, Miyoshi Umeki, also a Japanese woman, won an Academy Award. This period marked the...
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    the sport. He has been compared to baseball greats like Babe Ruth. Miyoshi Umeki won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1957. Actors Sessue...
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    during the Korean War, who marries Katsumi, a Japanese woman (played by Miyoshi Umeki), but he is barred from taking her back to the US. His moving portrayal...
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    Award winner James Shigeta and the first Asian Academy Award-winner Miyoshi Umeki. Non-Chinese actors in the ensemble included Filipino-American Patrick...
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  • St. John, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Gloria Swanson, Terry-Thomas, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Chill Wills, Ed Wynn...
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  • Letter 27 Richard T. Heffron 76 US Director Futureworld I, the Jury 28 Miyoshi Umeki 78 Japan Actress Sayonara The Horizontal Lieutenant 30 José Luis de...
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    circuit until at least the 1970s. Suzuki and Flower Drum Song costar Miyoshi Umeki were photographed by Philippe Halsman for the December 22, 1958 cover...
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    Peyton Place as Lucas Cross Russ Tamblyn – Peyton Place as Norman Page Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara as Katsumi Kelly‡ Carolyn Jones – The Bachelor Party as The...
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