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Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese Pioneer of Stage and Film (The New York Sun) |
Miyoshi Umeki, who died August 28 at 78, was nominated for a Tony Award as Mei-Li the mail order “picture bride” in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” (1958). She also won an Oscar for best supporting actress as Red Buttons’s wife Katsumi in the film “Sayonara” (1957). She was later seen on television in the recurring role of a housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston, in “The Courtship of Eddie’s …
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