Sessue Hayakawa Playing Card
date: label: date made
content: 1916
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Actor Sessue Hayakawa is featured in a deck of cards circa 1916 by the Movie Souvenir Card Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born Kintarō Hayakawa on June 10, 1886 in Japan. Professionally known as Sessue Hayakawa, he became a leading male actor and a global superstar during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Often typecast as a villain and due to anti-Japanese attitudes in the United States, Hayakawa sought work in Japan and Europe. He returned to the United States several years later and earned Oscar and Golden Globes nominations for his work on the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In 1960, Hayakawa was honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Sessue Hayakawa died on November 23, 1973.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0111.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0111
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0111.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, playing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm