The actress, who also starred in “Flower Drum Song” has passed away. Most of my generation remember her as Mrs. Livingston on “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/06/obit.umeki.ap/index.html
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Wonder if her death made the news in Japan. Or was she just an American star.
It dropped off the front page pretty quickly.
Wow. I play *FDS *in the store a lot, and it always gets a reaction. Pretty serious subject matter for a 50s Bway musical, and she of course is great in it. A course, she was a Japanese woman playing a Chinese woman, but I guess that imbalance was redressed in Memoirs of a Geisha, where most of the Japanese women were played by Chinese women. There’s progress for ya!
Namu Amida Butsu, RIP Umeki-san.
I didn’t know this about Sayounara:
Wow.
It made the Entertainment section of the Mainichi Daily News.
Japan’s only Oscar-winning actress Miyoshi Umeki, dies in US
It also got mentioned in the forums at fuckedgaijin.com
Good night, Mrs. Livingston.