Word: umeki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Bill Bixby, as a widowed magazine editor, teams up this season with a seven-year-old charmer named Brandon Cruz, who plays his son. Miyoshi Umeki plays their housekeeper. Premiere...
...France Nuyen, who was born in Marseille of a French mother and a Chinese father, plays Tamiko, a highborn Japanese girl who wants Harvey. Martha Hyer, who is as American as a mink-lined raincoat in July, also wants Harvey, and so does Miyoshi Umeki, an honest-to-Buddha Japanese, who plays a Ginza B-girl...
Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Teahouse of the August Moon with David Wayne, Paul Ford, and John Forsythe of the original Broadway cast. Also Miyoshi Umeki...
...film still tells essentially the same story: Chinese girl (Miyoshi Umeki), a "picture bride" from Hong Kong, meets Chinese-American boy (James Shigeta). But boy loves Chinese-American girl (Nancy Kwan), a nightspot stripper who wants to cover her nakedness with greenbacks. In the end, true love triumphs in a large, vulgar Chinese wedding...
Flower Drum Song is clearly photographed, and brightly colored. But the songs-except for a charming little villanelle sung by Actress Umeki-don't exactly ring the gong, and Choreographer Hermes Pan has apparently reworked some routines from Chu Chin Chow. Also, moviegoers may be disturbed to find that most of the Chinese characters in the picture are played by actors of various other Oriental extractions. Honest, fellows, they really don't all look alike...