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Jamie Chung’s Interview Behind The Scenes of Big Hero 6
Jamie Chung’s Interview Behind The Scenes of Big Hero 6
The Kim Sisters Sing La Bamba Medley
The Kim Sisters Sing La Bamba Medley
Pat Morita’s Stand Up Act on Hollywood Palace
Tony Randall hosts Hollywood Palace, featuring Pat Morita in his early days of stand up!
Cristeta Comerford – Chef of Filipino Descent
Cristeta is the executive chef for the White House and has been since she “took office” in 2005. So far she has worked in the White House kitchen with both George W. Bush and Barack Obama as president. She made it through primary, secondary, and college education in the Philippines then migrated to the United States when she was just 23 years old. Her first job was at the Sheraton Hotel at the…
Name: Tsuru Aoki
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Birthdate: September 9, 1892
Death: October 18, 1961
Tsuru Aoki, of Japanese descent, may have been the first Asian actress to have top billing credits in American films. She was born in Tokyo, and immigrated to Los Angeles when she was 13. She began her career performing in LA’s Japanese Theatre. She was discovered by producer Thomas Ince and made her film debut in The Oath of Tsuru San. In 1914, she starred in O Mimi San alongside Sessue Hayakawa whom she married later that year. They would go on to work together in more than twenty films through the 20’s. Her most popular film of the silent period is The Dragon Painter, which was released in 1919, starring herself and her husband. She appeared in close to 40 films, often in lead roles.
Aoki retired from the screen after the release of The Danger Line in 1924. She returned briefly to work with her husband in Hell to Eternity in 1960 before passing away the following year from acute peritonitis.
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