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- Actor James Shigeta played the leading male role in the lavish movie musical “Flower Drum Song” in 1961. The year before, he won a Golden Globe as most promising newcomer. But after “Flower Drum Song” he never again played the leading man in a major film.
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Jul 31, 2014 · James Shigeta, who played the romantic lead in Hollywood films in the late 1950s and early ’60s, passed away on Monday afternoon in Los Angeles, according to his publicist, Jeffrey Leavitt. Leavitt said the actor died peacefully in his sleep.
Jul 30, 2014 · Actor James Shigeta played the leading male role in the lavish movie musical “Flower Drum Song” in 1961. The year before, he won a Golden Globe as most promising newcomer. But after “Flower...
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An aspiring song-and-dance man early in his career, he had a series of romantic leading roles in the late fifties, culminating in his most important one, the lead in Ross Hunter's glitzy production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Flower Drum Song (1961).
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Jul 31, 2014 · After coming to the attention of Hollywood (winning on “The Ted Mack Amateur Hour”), Shigeta was cast in his movies as a leading man. In “Crimson Kimono” and “Bridge to the Sun,” he played the love interest and husband, respectively, to (everybody gasp in unison now) white women.
An aspiring song-and-dance man early in his career, he had a series of romantic leading roles in the late fifties, culminating in his most important one, the lead in Ross Hunter's glitzy production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Flower Drum Song (1961).
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- June 17, 1929
Jul 31, 2014 · Actor James Shigeta played the leading male role in the lavish movie musical “Flower Drum Song” in 1961. The year before, he won a Golden Globe as most promising newcomer.
At a time when very few Asians were seen in Hollywood movies, Shigeta managed to score leading man roles in films such as “Flower Drum Song,” “Walk Like a Dragon” and his favorite, “Bridge to the Sun.”
