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| Title | Sessue Hayakawa, n.d. |
| Photographer | Hixon-Wiese, Kansas City, MO |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Autograph on photo.
PH Coll 569.90 |
| Contextual Notes | Sessue Hayakawa (1889-1973) achieved fame as a silent film star through his role in Cecil B. DeMille's controversial 1915 film The Cheat, which told the story of a white woman's passionate affair with an Asian ivory merchant. The movie was a huge box office success and turned Hayakawa into the first Japanese matinee idol in Hollywood history. Hayakawa remained popular through the 1910s, but a rise in racism in the U.S. sparked by anger over immigration ended his stardom in 1922. In the 1920s, Hayakawa began a new career in Europe, acting in the French and British movie industry. He tried but failed to regain his career as a star in the U.S., which can be partly attributed to the revelation of his heavy accent after the advent of "talking" pictures. After WWII, Hayakawa turned himself into a character actor, which led him to play the POW camp commander in David Lean's Bridge over the River Kwai (1957). For this role, he was nominated for an Academy award for best supporting actor, making him one of the only eight actors of Asian descent to date to be nominated for an Academy award in an acting category.
Charles "Tiny" Burnett was known for his popular orchestra leadership in the Orpheum Circuit vaudeville theaters here from 1915-1933. Over the years, Burnett amassed a large collection of souvenir photographs from the performers with whom he worked. Many of the photographs are studio portraits signed with fond notes by the performers, who range from novelty acts and circus attractions to opera singers and silent film actors.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Actors |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Hayakawa, Sesshù„, 1889-1973; Theater--United States--History |
| Location Depicted | United States |
| Digital Collection | Society and Culture Collection
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| Order Number | SOC1916
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collection Division |
| Repository Collection | Charles "Tiny" Burnett photograph collection. PH Coll 569 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanner 1000x at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2010 |
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