Oral history interview with Sessue Hayakawa, 1959.

Biographical Note

Actor

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hayakawa, Sesshū, 1889-1973--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Silent films.