Flower drum song

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  • @dougn2350
    @dougn235010 ай бұрын

    In 1964 I was 6 years old and we just got our first color TV. That same evening this movie was broadcast on the local CBS channel. We all watched it together.

  • @ashrafosman7845

    @ashrafosman7845

    2 ай бұрын

    In 1964 I was 10 YO and we got our first B&W TV

  • @dalebryant9282
    @dalebryant92822 жыл бұрын

    I lived in San Francisco in the 70s, I had a Chinese-American friend who rather had a kind of an inferiority complex, I watched this with him (I had seen it before) He had not ever seen it. The movie was a kind of a revelation to him, he kept talking about how many talented oriental actors and actresses were in the movie lost track of him, but I think the movie might have changed his life

  • @gardensofthegods

    @gardensofthegods

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow I think you were lucky to have lived in San Francisco in the 70s .

  • @curtischildress9580

    @curtischildress9580

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm kind of envious of you living in SF during the 70s...so much was happening for everybody. Young folks from all over the USA & other countries made their way there. That was the last decade for the magic.

  • @jacquelynperry7941

    @jacquelynperry7941

    Жыл бұрын

    If you're going to San Francisco, b sure to wear some flowers in your hair...and hav a concealed carry permit.

  • @curtischildress9580

    @curtischildress9580

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jacquelynperry7941 And for the fellows visiting SF be sure to get ready for some very nice, lovely, & well-intended comments from gay men! ...Who can resist the happy gay receptions that SF offers?!

  • @kennethwayne6857

    @kennethwayne6857

    Жыл бұрын

    The sad thing is that many Asian-Americans now consider this lovely musical offensive. I'm sure some of them have never even seen it, but we're all being told what to think nowadays.

  • @ottomechanic1370
    @ottomechanic13702 жыл бұрын

    This remarkable assembly of 1960's cast of Asian actors and actresses really brought so much creativity, talent and joy, to their audiences through this movie. I really enjoy watching this timeless musical. Nancy Kwan is great!

  • @candaceg.8081
    @candaceg.80813 жыл бұрын

    At 75 years old, I still love this. With Nancy Kwan's blended ethnicity, she paved the way for Asian Americans in Hollywood. When in doubt - dance!

  • @gardensofthegods

    @gardensofthegods

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes she was really incredible ... I remember seeing her in this and also the world of Suzie Wong when I was a little girl in the 1960s

  • @kennethwayne6857

    @kennethwayne6857

    Жыл бұрын

    She is wonderful. It's kind of obvious that her singing is dubbed by someone else. Her Barbara Walters-ish speech impediment disappears when she starts to sing- not saying it to be critical.

  • @jacobgarrity651

    @jacobgarrity651

    Жыл бұрын

    Until Crazy Rich Asians and Shang-Chi made more acceptance for Asian Americans

  • @tessdurberville711

    @tessdurberville711

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@kennethwayne6857Speech impediment???🤨

  • @kennethwayne6857

    @kennethwayne6857

    4 ай бұрын

    @@tessdurberville711 Perhaps I'm hearing it wrong. No offense intended.

  • @carmenpeters728
    @carmenpeters7289 ай бұрын

    my mother loved this movie. I watch it every so often with her in spirit, and to see San Francisco as it was when I was growing up.

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins23894 жыл бұрын

    I had forgotten just how WELL choreographed this film was. (And the beautiful opening title drawings by Dong Kingman..)

  • @ofallmyintention9496

    @ofallmyintention9496

    3 жыл бұрын

    The scenes with theirs songs, 'Love, Look Away and 'Sunday' are both genius for completely different reasons: one is meant to be funny, the other, sad.

  • @ovenrestore5668

    @ovenrestore5668

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes that Sunday number is fantastic!

  • @rachelgrenadier3021

    @rachelgrenadier3021

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hermes Pan. One of the best.

  • @LazyDaisyDay88

    @LazyDaisyDay88

    2 ай бұрын

    I loved the drawings! Wish I could buy a copy of them.

  • @devydu
    @devydu Жыл бұрын

    I'm here because of James Hong, who plays Gong-Gong in 2023 Oscar winning "Everything Everywhere All at Once". Here in "Flower Drum Song", he plays Sammy Fong's head waiter at the Celestial Garden night club. James Hong is now 94 years old and finally received his star on Hollywood of Walk of Fame in March 2022. I loved "Flower Drum Song" since watching it on TV as a little girl and growing up in San Francisco. This 1961 movie musical had amazing cast of Asian actors & actresses, not seen again until decades later with Joy Luck Club, Crazy Rich Asians, Shang-Chi and now EEAAO which won 7 Oscars with Michelle Yeoh as first Asian actress winning Best Actress, Ke Huy Quan winning Best Supporting Actor, Stephanie Hsu nominated as Best Supporting Actress, Jamie Lee winning Best Supporting Actress (is she not Asian?), Daniel Quan winning Best Director and EEAAO winning Best Picture! James Hong gave an amazing speech on the history of Asian actors at SAG Awards when he accepted Best Motion Picture Cast on behalf of EEAAO! Triumphantly, with the EEAAO cast behind him, James shouts "Look at us now!" ❤🥢🎞🎭🏆👀⛩🍜🐉😊🎵🎤

  • @johneddy908

    @johneddy908

    Жыл бұрын

    Not only that, Jack Soo, who has a role in the movie version, was also in the original Broadway cast.

  • @devydu

    @devydu

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johneddy908 Thank you for that bit of trivia that Jack Soo performed on Broadway! I think he's best known for his TV role on Barney Miller.

  • @devydu

    @devydu

    Жыл бұрын

    I wish the all-Asian cast of "Flower Drum Song" received recognition in 1961: Nancy Kwan, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, James Shigeta, Reiko Sato, James Hong, Benson Fong, Kam Tong.

  • @mastersadvocate
    @mastersadvocate3 жыл бұрын

    I love this movie! It is so beautiful, and so beautifully done! The songs are very memorable, and the dancing is wonderful! Thank you for sharing this!! ~Janet in Canada

  • @mconesa52
    @mconesa523 жыл бұрын

    I saw this movie back in the 60's. The memories, the music and the details still linger in my mind. Now I am 69 years old and looking at the story after so many years I can say that this was a very important and historical film, in which the traditional concepts of Chinese customs were being challenge by the newly acquired customs of living in America.

  • @cheehohkwok6239

    @cheehohkwok6239

    3 жыл бұрын

    me too mr osuna....i saw this in the 1960s., now i am 69 also., it all brings back good warm memories. Sadly Shigeta and Umechi are no longer with us but at least nancy kwan is still around

  • @770Thinker

    @770Thinker

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me, too. Saw it way back when, and I am now 69 years old. Nice to feel that I have company. ; ))

  • @ginajones2328

    @ginajones2328

    2 жыл бұрын

    Really needed to watch a cultural Chinese icon musical today lol

  • @richardalfaro3890

    @richardalfaro3890

    2 жыл бұрын

    The same here.

  • @fairyprincess911

    @fairyprincess911

    2 жыл бұрын

    62

  • @LS-kg6my
    @LS-kg6my6 ай бұрын

    Don Kingman’s watercolors are incredible!!!

  • @wmperkins25
    @wmperkins252 жыл бұрын

    I remember when this came out, I was a child then and never got the chance to see it, now after all these years later I did get the chance, much better than I imagined it, nice love story, great acting, love the all Asian cast, (well almost all Asian ) just an entertaining movie and visually stunning !!

  • @gardensofthegods

    @gardensofthegods

    2 жыл бұрын

    I got to see it on TV with my family in the sixties when I was a little girl . Today was the first time I've seen it since then but I did remember a lot of it ... certain scenes ... especially when they first are performing for money and then the beautiful courtyard where they are living and the end wedding scene .

  • @cynthiawilson4500
    @cynthiawilson45003 жыл бұрын

    Watched this years ago. I am still enchanted by it.❤

  • @JJmikra
    @JJmikra9 ай бұрын

    Great movie. As a Japanese, how could I not know about this movie until now?

  • @rmoore1686

    @rmoore1686

    2 ай бұрын

    At least you finally found it. I’m glad it’s on KZread.

  • @elizabeths4371
    @elizabeths43713 жыл бұрын

    back when the city of San Francisco truly was- " SO WONDERFUL".

  • @dolcevitausa6448

    @dolcevitausa6448

    3 жыл бұрын

    that was before hipsters, techies and millennials

  • @maryvictoriasmith3466

    @maryvictoriasmith3466

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like the kid

  • @curtischildress9580

    @curtischildress9580

    2 жыл бұрын

    Beatniks who were proto-hippies are shown in this film at a club doing dancing during a poetry reading.

  • @imopman
    @imopman3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful musical , thank you so much for hosting it !

  • @ginajones2328
    @ginajones23282 жыл бұрын

    A nice Lazy Sunday and a Oriental movie.....my mother adored this musical! She passed at age 96 several years ago. I watched musicals every Sunday in honor of her memory ! My mother was an Amazing Irish lady

  • @JannQnTM_TM
    @JannQnTM_TM5 ай бұрын

    San Francisco, Ca Chinatown.Grandma Was Here Then.Pass Down To Generations.Everything Then Is Not The Same Now. I live Here So I Know . Thank You For Sharing This. Grandma Said Everyone Who Was Young Is Beautiful. Anyway Half Asaian We Are Coming Out More Thank You.

  • @queenmedesa
    @queenmedesa2 жыл бұрын

    Charming film, those beautiful R &H songs and dance numbers!

  • @RuthShultz47
    @RuthShultz47 Жыл бұрын

    I saw this movie when I was a kid in the sixties. This movie just may have gotten better! I am 75 now, I remembered all the lyrics as the storyline played out, I think this was the most amazing musical of 1961, and the music was fabulous, I really enjoyed it this time!

  • @joesoy9185
    @joesoy91853 жыл бұрын

    Reiko Sato, who mimes "Look away" is dubbed by the great operatic singer, Marylin Horne.

  • @rascalhusky8129
    @rascalhusky81292 жыл бұрын

    Great movie, fantastic dancing. Nancy Kwan very special in many ways.

  • @mchrysogelos7623

    @mchrysogelos7623

    2 жыл бұрын

    I really like Miyoshi

  • @sheilayungk7815
    @sheilayungk78153 жыл бұрын

    The music in this is beautiful. It makes me cry!!! "You are Beautiful". That's how emotional I get with music!!!

  • @gracewenzel
    @gracewenzel4 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU for uploading this!! Gorgeous movie!!

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel Жыл бұрын

    I’ve never seen a Rogers and Hammerstein movie I didn’t love.

  • @inkyguy
    @inkyguy4 жыл бұрын

    Patrick Adiarte was very young, handsome and quite a gifted and talented dancer in his role as the younger, baseball uniform-clad brother. Born in 1942, in fact, Adiarte was 18 when the movie was filmed and 19 by the time it was released. Viewers of early episodes of _M*A*S*H_ may also recognize him as the actor who played character Ho Jon, and fans of the _Brady Bunch_ may remember him as the local Hawaiian "David" from the two episodes set in Hawaii. Unfortunately, his screen career appears to have ended in the early 70s, and I can find nothing more about him. If still living, he would be 77 as of this post.

  • @jakeesmeralda5318

    @jakeesmeralda5318

    4 жыл бұрын

    He's filipino right i know him because of his Filipino article. He was in the King and I too i think.

  • @sheilayungk7815

    @sheilayungk7815

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow. You sure know your stuff. You must like this movie!! I tend to look people up too.

  • @inkyguy

    @inkyguy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sheilayungk7815 , thanks for your comment but don’t give me too much credit. I didn’t know all those facts off the top my head. I did a little research and shared some of what I learned, figuring if I find it interesting then others may as well. Glad you appreciated it.

  • @cherylcampbell9369

    @cherylcampbell9369

    2 жыл бұрын

    He amazes me when i see this now. I almost fast forwarded to end credits to see who he was. Thank you!

  • @johnpickford4222

    @johnpickford4222

    9 ай бұрын

    @inkyguy: Patrick Adiarte also portrayed Prince Chulalongkorn in THE KING AND I (1956).

  • @edelweisssymons7444
    @edelweisssymons7444 Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely delightful! Thanks for beautiful memories!

  • @wilsonfu1258
    @wilsonfu12583 ай бұрын

    What a wonderful movie, American Chinese people have lot of talented actors indeed! Love this movie and recommend it to my family members and friends.

  • @wrybreadspread
    @wrybreadspread Жыл бұрын

    Loved this movie as a Boomer youth. Still do. The parts of this that have aged the least well are what was contemporary in the 1960's.

  • @dalebryant9282

    @dalebryant9282

    Жыл бұрын

    Only thing was when they made the set of Portsmouth Square, it was not very accurate, bit that was a minor thing.

  • @susanscheuermann4898
    @susanscheuermann48982 жыл бұрын

    And The Handsome James Shigeta !!!!!!! UUUUUhhhhhhhhhh, I Always Had A Crush On Him Through The Years !!!!

  • @hatelovebowel4571
    @hatelovebowel457111 ай бұрын

    This might be the only musical movie with an majority of Asian cast

  • @lisawentworth6831
    @lisawentworth68312 жыл бұрын

    Ah, Mrs Livingtone before she was on Courtship of Eddie's Father....what a delightful film!

  • @padroneoso
    @padroneoso3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful showcase for the great Miyoshi Umeki. Brilliant Dong Kingman title sequence, Alfred Newman overture, Hermes Pan choreography, and Russell Metty cinematography.

  • @carlsilverman754

    @carlsilverman754

    2 жыл бұрын

    been to Grant Ave SF the heart of The City

  • @johnpickford4222

    @johnpickford4222

    9 ай бұрын

    @padroneoso: You forgot to mention the costumes of the great Irene Sharaff. Also, the musical was based on the stage musical with a book by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Joseph Fields, that was not in the credits. The screenplay however was by Joseph Fields as stated.

  • @padroneoso

    @padroneoso

    9 ай бұрын

    @@johnpickford4222 Ms Sharaff's work is wonderful. From the cast, Nancy Kwan, James Hong, and Patrick Adiarte are still alive.

  • @elizabeths4371
    @elizabeths43712 жыл бұрын

    LOVE all the Mid-century modern furniture in this movie- what goes around comes back around!

  • @dalebryant9282

    @dalebryant9282

    Жыл бұрын

    I was in the furniture business too at the time I saw this movie W. & J. Sloane, San Francisco, so I loved the interior shots too...

  • @belladonna131
    @belladonna13110 ай бұрын

    THE FIRST TIME I EVER HEARD OF THIS MOVIE WAS A FEW YEARS AGO, 2020 PERHAPS? WHEN I WAS WATCHING A REALITY SHOW. ALL OF THE CHARACTERS WERE GOSSIPING ABOUT ONE OF THEIR "FRIEND'S" RECENT FACELIFTS AND A MALE CAST MEMBER MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THE WOMAN'S FACE BEING STRETCHED SO TIGHT SHE COULD HAVE BEEN ON "FLOWER DRUM SONG." I LAUGHED SO HARD. HAVING NEVER SEEN THE MOVIE AND HEARING THE TITLE I IMAGINED THE CAST WAS ASIAN AND IT HAD TO DO WITH ASIAN CULTURE. I'M HALF JAPANESE AND I THOUGHT THE COMMENT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING I HEARD!

  • @canman5060
    @canman50602 жыл бұрын

    Thousand year old eggs. Make sure they are fresh ! Funniest line ever !

  • @g.joysantiago7864
    @g.joysantiago78643 жыл бұрын

    A hundred million miracles I love this movie 🍿

  • @rolandcuthbert784
    @rolandcuthbert7842 жыл бұрын

    It is weird how this movie was so far ahead of its time. We would have problems making a movie like this even today.

  • @del7i540

    @del7i540

    Жыл бұрын

    No, only you have problems.

  • @rolandcuthbert784

    @rolandcuthbert784

    Жыл бұрын

    @@del7i540 Oh my problem is only with youtube trolls. You guys are professionals.

  • @dckatyx9577

    @dckatyx9577

    9 ай бұрын

    There was no problem making this movie in 1960/61. In fact, the stage production of the 1950s was very popular. People were far less uptight as compared to now. Cancellation - and rewriting - of works of art due to nonconformity with contemporary moral codes is currently far more prevalent than at any time in American history. While religious zealotry has always been present, there has never been an order, in America, with the institutional power to enforce conformity that is currently wielded by the Liberal Church of Woke.

  • @rolandcuthbert784

    @rolandcuthbert784

    9 ай бұрын

    @@dckatyx9577 You guys spend too much time on youtube. It was "woke" to cast an all Asian cast and talk about subjects like what does it mean to be Chinese or Chinese American. But you probably didn't watch more than five minutes of the film. The song "Chop Suey" is legend.

  • @dckatyx9577

    @dckatyx9577

    9 ай бұрын

    @@rolandcuthbert784 Flower Drum Song thoughtfully develops its characters as individuals. Wokeism is an ideology that categorizes all people within racial and other identity groups. Identity politics was explicitly developed as a replacement to Marxism. It abandons the economic division of the proletariat versus the capitalist. The Church of Woke ordains that all people are permanently stratified by caste, according to their group’s (arbitrary) level of victimhood. The humanism of Flower Drum Song is a beautiful antithesis to the divisive ideology of Wokeism.

  • @MM-ManifestingMiracles
    @MM-ManifestingMiracles Жыл бұрын

    This is one of my all time favorite musicals!

  • @tinadarwish622
    @tinadarwish6223 жыл бұрын

    I love this movie!! James Shigeta is wonderful!!

  • @MosaicRose99

    @MosaicRose99

    2 жыл бұрын

    He really is, and so handsome. :)

  • @beverlyledbetter4906

    @beverlyledbetter4906

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure a lot of non-Asians enjoyed watching Kwan and Shigeta, whether they admitted it or not!

  • @curtischildress9580

    @curtischildress9580

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beverlyledbetter4906 I've always enjoyed this musical film...the Asian aspect is present, but the theme of the film travels above that in many rich ways.

  • @bobcadley3763
    @bobcadley37632 жыл бұрын

    Im 71 and I fell in love with it when I saw it on TV when I was a teenager. I always loved Asian culture and I adored th emovie and the actors. Bravo all around.

  • @jacquelynperry7941

    @jacquelynperry7941

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep, I'm 74 & remember in jhs falling in love w/Pearl Buck & trying to read everything she wrote. I think my 1st take away from her stories was th fact that women were treated so poorly. I had seen this movie b4 & remember how "slick" movies were back then w/th sophisticated suits/skinny ties, real hip. This is a great movie about a forgotten time.

  • @kennethhill1535
    @kennethhill153510 ай бұрын

    I'm white and watched this show where I was 6 and even then I cried 😢when she was mistreated no should go through that and I love they. Story it was beautiful ❤

  • @LoovesJf.
    @LoovesJf.3 жыл бұрын

    A really great musical movie. However, Japanese-American and Chinese-American actors play a central role in creating this movie. The music in the play is also really magnificent❗️

  • @padroneoso

    @padroneoso

    3 жыл бұрын

    And the wonderful Juanita Hall is African American. You remember her from Rodgers and Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC.

  • @LoovesJf.

    @LoovesJf.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@padroneoso Yep, exactly! She was so great actress.

  • @arlitabeard7693
    @arlitabeard76932 жыл бұрын

    Been a fan of Jack Soo for.many years great movie haven't seen for many years thanks

  • @bryanreyes7382
    @bryanreyes73823 жыл бұрын

    From 1:40:34 to 1:41:57 I literally started to shed a tear when Mei Li is telling Wang Ta how she felt about him until she came to Helen Chao's apartment when she notices Ta's coat and his shoes and ends when she tells him that her heart was so hurt and tells him that she doesn't love him anymore. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭..... Great performance by the late great actress, Miyoshi Umeki. God Rest Her Soul. But, everyone knows that the ending is a happy ending when Mei Li finally marries Wang Ta in a double wedding along with Sammy Fong and Linda Low. Greatest movie ever. Miyoshi Umeki has done a very wonderful performance as Mei Li in both the Broadway version and the film verison. I love this movie all the way. Though I first watched this movie last night on channel TCM and already I love this wonderful movie. #FlowerDrumSong #MiyoshiUmeki #JamesShigeta #NancyKwan 🎎🎎🎎🎎

  • @MK-hh1vo

    @MK-hh1vo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not "everybody" knows the ending of this movie, I never heard of it. Thanks for the spoiler 🙄 I'll watch it anyway...

  • @bryanreyes7382

    @bryanreyes7382

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MK-hh1vo you're welcome

  • @Adam-jg5re
    @Adam-jg5re Жыл бұрын

    "Remember me? We were on a double date last week. I was the one with the wrong girl. " Hope there comes a day where the stars align and I get to use this on my future wife and nobody gets hurt.

  • @mateofreile3047
    @mateofreile3047 Жыл бұрын

    What a joyful enchanting movie. Thank you for making it available.

  • @aminsadeghpour1549
    @aminsadeghpour15492 жыл бұрын

    1:36:36 to 136:41 I always found that part hilarious: father: "why are you not in school?" son: "it's Saturday" father: always some excuse!!!!

  • @cherylcampbell9369

    @cherylcampbell9369

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are so many good retorts in this film!

  • @lamfam0801
    @lamfam08014 жыл бұрын

    Love this musical!

  • @TheRozberry
    @TheRozberry2 жыл бұрын

    This is one of my favorite movies of all time!!!

  • @timihobbs1992
    @timihobbs19922 жыл бұрын

    Love Flower Drum Song. Best score, great cast, fantasticly great dancers!

  • @oldgringo2001
    @oldgringo20012 жыл бұрын

    This is another movie I saw maybe once on TV more than fifty years ago. When it came out I was a kid living in the back of the beyond in southeastern Idaho; no way a movie with Oriental stars was going to be booked into in one of the whitest patches in the USA. But I remember hearing "I Enjoy Being a Girl" on the radio long before that with never a clue it was a song from a Broadway musical..

  • @lizinwisconsin6728
    @lizinwisconsin67283 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful movie. Thank you for uploading it. Haven't seen it in years!!

  • @Razmatazz522
    @Razmatazz5226 ай бұрын

    Everyone is happy at the end. Except Helen Chow.

  • @maestroclassico5801

    @maestroclassico5801

    4 күн бұрын

    I always wondered why they left her alone at the end. I think in Rodger's and Hammerstein shows there usually has to be a bit of sad with the happy. (In the original book the musical was based on she commits SUICIDE!)

  • @Starfals
    @StarfalsАй бұрын

    Nancy Kwan is awesome, and i say this as a person who has never seen an Asian in their life (in my European country)

  • @stephencowley3661
    @stephencowley36613 жыл бұрын

    Rodgers & Hammerstein's greatest musical comedy as apposed to their musical plays 'Carousel'; 'South Pacific 'etc

  • @12classics39
    @12classics39 Жыл бұрын

    1:02:37 “How could he help himself, baby? You’re a bunch of stuff!” LOL what a line!

  • @jacquelynperry7941

    @jacquelynperry7941

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, very cleverly written.

  • @kathleenbarrow3373
    @kathleenbarrow3373 Жыл бұрын

    Never seen this. A friend told me about it. Love the Music so far. Here we go. Another Classic?

  • @patriciacurcio9455
    @patriciacurcio94557 күн бұрын

    I just love ❤️ this movie 🎥 the uncle is funny 😆 and it’s a good musical I missed this movie for a long time thank you 😊 again so much god bless you

  • @lrealestate
    @lrealestate2 жыл бұрын

    Back when San Francisco was beautiful

  • @cherylcampbell9369

    @cherylcampbell9369

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's mostly sound stages, i think.

  • @lrealestate

    @lrealestate

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cherylcampbell9369 Nope. I had a handicapped sister who would spend months at a time in Shriners Hospital in San Francisco until she was 17. When she was there we would visit her on Sundays. When we were younger we were not allowed in and SF was so safe my folks could leave their other 5 children outside on the lawn. That was normal back then. Then they would take us around the city and visit a museum, the zoo, Japanese Tea Gardens, Chinatown etc. It was beautiful, clean and safe because aside from Chinatown we were a homogenous demographic of people who are capable of having a civilized society.

  • @gardensofthegods

    @gardensofthegods

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lrealestate I believe you .

  • @archbishopjohnjohnston1184
    @archbishopjohnjohnston11842 жыл бұрын

    I have watch this move over a dozen times, great film

  • @thouger1
    @thouger14 жыл бұрын

    Just watched this on the TCM App last night...it was FANTASTIC!!! The dance numbers were incredible.

  • @maryoliver8596

    @maryoliver8596

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hermes Pan did the choreography. He used to work with Fred Astaire.

  • @erpollock
    @erpollock2 жыл бұрын

    I loved to sing Love Look Away - so beautiful. It's sung by mezzo Marilyn Horne.

  • @davidallen508

    @davidallen508

    2 жыл бұрын

    The best number in the film, along with ‘You are Beautiful’.Generally, I find the film very sexist and Jack Soo is insufferable.

  • @kennethwayne6857

    @kennethwayne6857

    Жыл бұрын

    She's phenomenal! I've had the great pleasure (many years ago) of hearing her on stage many times and getting to meet her. This was not her first encounter with Rodgers and Hammerstein, she sang with the studio chorus for the film of 'The King and I'. Viva Jackie!!

  • @tessdurberville711

    @tessdurberville711

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@davidallen508🤦🏼‍♀️.

  • @haroldho19
    @haroldho194 жыл бұрын

    Great movie. Great cast. Thanks.

  • @janeiwasduncan8463

    @janeiwasduncan8463

    3 жыл бұрын

    Didn't Miyosha Umeki earn an Oscar for Sayronara??? And appear on, The Courtship of Eddie's Father???

  • @janeiwasduncan8463

    @janeiwasduncan8463

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jack Soo...Barney Miller ? ? Benson Forg appeared on a couple episodes of Perry Mason as did James Shigata.

  • @URangryX
    @URangryX Жыл бұрын

    I never knew there was a movie like this! Awesome!

  • @MarieDBrown-fw4du
    @MarieDBrown-fw4du4 жыл бұрын

    excellent movie!🙌🏾

  • @maestroclassico5801
    @maestroclassico58014 күн бұрын

    Universal doing a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical for a change instead of Fox. But at least they still had Alfred Newman supervising, adapting and Conducting the score like he did for The King and I, Carousel, and South Pacific at Fox.

  • @ginajones2328
    @ginajones23282 жыл бұрын

    Chinese medicine I love acupuncture I love the diet of Asian people ! A beautiful race of humans !

  • @gardensofthegods

    @gardensofthegods

    2 жыл бұрын

    But it's a shame most of the San Francisco Chinatown is actually gone ... I saw a piece here just recently on the tube about how they're only down to two original restaurants in Chinatown ... and it showed how much it changed ... really a shame they couldn't hold on to some of these places

  • @curtischildress9580
    @curtischildress95802 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful movie...I've never forgotten it.

  • @ClearlyChantelle
    @ClearlyChantelle2 жыл бұрын

    Super Cinephile!! I freaking love this movie

  • @Kuma40
    @Kuma404 жыл бұрын

    I really love the plot twist at the ending!

  • @cynthiahawkins2389

    @cynthiahawkins2389

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Mei Ling, you did think of something - we must visit the shrine of the God of Television!!!"

  • @Kuma40

    @Kuma40

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cynthiahawkins2389 That was so hilarious line!

  • @2Fennie
    @2Fennie3 жыл бұрын

    Love this and the OST !

  • @tomdegan6924
    @tomdegan69242 жыл бұрын

    I had never seen this before. Excellent!

  • @ahsl
    @ahsl3 жыл бұрын

    send me a dozen thousand-year eggs, and be sure their fresh

  • @bylandleo

    @bylandleo

    3 жыл бұрын

    That line made me laugh, too!

  • @ginajones2328

    @ginajones2328

    2 жыл бұрын

    Loved it 💯 agree

  • @elizabethstevenson7100
    @elizabethstevenson71002 жыл бұрын

    I love this wonderful story and the music of my two favorite musical composer/writers. /

  • @terrydavies8336
    @terrydavies8336 Жыл бұрын

    After all these years - a much loved movie and sing along - from now a granny in Australia-

  • @rabbit.of.ill.portent9303
    @rabbit.of.ill.portent9303 Жыл бұрын

    One of my all time favorite musicals 🥰

  • @larciabella
    @larciabella4 жыл бұрын

    great ending!

  • @jenniepamatian1435
    @jenniepamatian14353 жыл бұрын

    first watched this movie when i was about 13 and loved it!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ginajones2328

    @ginajones2328

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me also in Baltimore Maryland

  • @robertyglesias9065
    @robertyglesias90652 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing this a young kid was not interested then in the 1980's when I was in the Navy was ready for the weekend couldn't not skeep turned my tv and watched the entire movie

  • @sunnychuang369
    @sunnychuang369 Жыл бұрын

    Come on in, folks! Sit tight and be ethically enriched and magically bewitched by being fantabulously and miraculously transported to the time immemorial, and that's simply glidin' and pridin' in a most outglowing and mind-blowing viewing experience - as if leisurely and securely walking down the memory lane with the unparalleled sublimeness and primeness; with the pristinely appealing and thrilling moments; with the sanguinely gallant and scintillant sentimental values; with the distinctly periodic and methodic full flowering; and not least of all, with the most divinest and finest selection of the long-standing and outstanding theater / film musical classics that were unreservedly adapted from the best-selling, social values-unveiling literary works enlaced and graced with the historic dramedic elements or with the euphoric romedic elements for all the public viewers to ponder and to wonder with great pleasure and pride about the bygone periods of grandiosity, luminosity, and virtuosity in the Hollywood musicals-making sphere - which is to say such authentic and fun-centric audio-visual spectacles that were, in the truest sense, being artistically gentrified, thematically signified, and technically intensified as priceless gems of high standard and true merit. One fine example is this 1961 Mr Ross Hunter / Mr Joseph Fields-produced "Flower Drum Song", a deferentially and celestially treasured musical rom-com gem, that was freely based on the 1957 Mr Chin Yang-Lee's quite pithy and witty cultural difference / generation gap-related novel. In time it was feasibly and sensibly shifted to the major Broadway / motion picture musical with the quite sharply and subtly modified rendition of Mr Joseph A Fields in collaboration with Mr Oscar Hammerstein II that has indeed dynamically, euphorically, and humanistically rocked all the true-blue theater / film musical retros aficionados with sheer gaiety and premier quality. For there's something caressing and warm about this Dir Henry Koster's engrossingly and rousingly helmed rich Oriental familial values / East-and-West cultural conflict-themed musical film classic that will make every viewer in particular the Asian descents to be delightfully and sprightfully fascinated to a tee. His craftily and raptly directorial method was so markedly impressive and expressive with regards to the cinematic texture as well as the charismatic feature of the film so as to precisely and nicely bring on an awesome and wholesome family entertainment ambiance that was brilliantly set out with an edifying flying colour, with a burning and turning passion, and with the breezy and steezy tone. The well-balanced blending of the opulent song-pieces and the coherent spoken / singing parts was jauntily and prettily kept to the best of Mr Richard Rodgers, Mr Oscar Hammerstein II, and Mr Joseph A Fields' authentic cleverness, optimistic lyricalness, stylistic naturalness, formalistic ethicalness, and modernistic liberalness, plus the exceptional communal backings of the lead stars' endearing performances; the bit players' clear-cut presence; and the behind-the-scene crews' integral expertness. This quite dandy and handy ensemble did likewise pictorially exhibit Mr Dong Kingman's composedly and purposedly watercolor-illustrated art-works in the opening credits. Thus the entire members had achieved the best outcomes as a total package treat for all the fanbase to revel in. Just for the historical record, this is the first Hollywood film to roll out the Asian-American cast for the most part of every scene. It was a totally new viewing experience for the non-Asians back then. Still and all, it's been a real brill thrill to see this divinely and finely crafted musical classic since then - with the upfront jubilation in our hearts and the out-front adulation coming out of our mouths as if engagingly savoring and favoring the sweet aroma of "Flower Drum Song" that is fragrantly emanating a pageantry of unadulterated and envigorated beauty enlaced with romance, laughter, and music. A hundred million miracles are happ'ning everyday, everywhere, and to everybody up to the present time even in the course of personal or social issues. For this fancily mixed values-gilded classic can serve as sort of an expedient mood-energizer at just the right moment.There's no doubt that we are going to like it here. So let's altogether lift our glasses with the tiger bone wine and wish each other for harmony, happiness, and prosperity. It's a truly fair-and-rare celebration of a lifetime. A ten-thousand benedictions to all!!

  • @DSheartlady
    @DSheartlady2 жыл бұрын

    i saw this movie when i was a child loved it thanks for the posting 😊

  • @Claudinistube
    @Claudinistube3 жыл бұрын

    I just saw this and i loooooved it so much!

  • @aminsadeghpour1549
    @aminsadeghpour15493 жыл бұрын

    when Ta and his father were arguing I could see both sides of the argument. Ta was trying to make his father understand that in the United States a man has a right to choose his own wife. the father was saying Ta was being too naive and did not really know Linda as much as he thought he did

  • @cheehohkwok6239

    @cheehohkwok6239

    2 жыл бұрын

    A hundred million miracles

  • @lewl8050
    @lewl8050 Жыл бұрын

    Great story!Love It!!!!!

  • @noellecms
    @noellecms3 жыл бұрын

    My first time to watch. Very cute. I like it.

  • @jkaji4871
    @jkaji48712 жыл бұрын

    My Father watched this with me when I was young. I love it!!! 🐉

  • @Mozart2Muse
    @Mozart2Muse4 ай бұрын

    Mrs. Livingston brought me here.

  • @ginny5937
    @ginny59375 ай бұрын

    Excellent, thank you!!👏🌹

  • @maestroclassico5801
    @maestroclassico58014 күн бұрын

    Nancy was 20 when this was filmed. GAWD was she hot. Kudos to the gal who dubbed for her. She sounds like Nancy. When I was younger, I really thought it was her.

  • @Urbankungfu61
    @Urbankungfu612 жыл бұрын

    Wow! 100 million miracles! ♥️

  • @valkyriesardo278
    @valkyriesardo2782 жыл бұрын

    The big dance number at the commencement party would have been better if it included some traditional Chinese dance. Americans already know American dances. The charm of this musical is in the foreign customs and the efforts to achieve compatibility.

  • @johnjackson7045
    @johnjackson70452 жыл бұрын

    i must say ross hunter and musicals productions are pretty great.his last film was a musical.

  • @susanscheuermann4898

    @susanscheuermann4898

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lost Horizon I Believe. It Came Out in 1973, A Remake Of the Original Lost Horizon Movie, that came out in 1937. Yes Ross Hunter Was Great with musical productions.

  • @tessdurberville711

    @tessdurberville711

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@susanscheuermann4898Sadly, James Shigeta was the only actor/actress from Flower Drum Song used in Lost Horizon. Either Myoshi Umeki, Nancy Kwan, or Reiko Sato could have played Katherine. Liv Ullman was odd casting.

  • @beverlyhutchinson7677
    @beverlyhutchinson76774 жыл бұрын

    Love this movie- have for many years

  • @carlsilverman754
    @carlsilverman7542 жыл бұрын

    Ive been to Chinatown San Francisco...truly a special place in a special city

  • @cynthiarogers2904
    @cynthiarogers29042 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE THIS MOVIE !!! All Asian cast, except for the brief appearance of a robber. 27:15 And I do not usually like musicals.

  • @SicilianStealth
    @SicilianStealth3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this!

  • @sharon18334
    @sharon18334 Жыл бұрын

    I have seen this movie somany times. Funny Asian women have progressed from geisha types docile in the past to leaders of billion dollar corporations in China. They monopolize the makeup, hair, clothing and beauty industry. They have came a long way. My relationship with Asian women invikves my niece who is Asian and her and her mom are such nice ladies who have invited me to visit them in Guam.

  • @lisawentworth6831
    @lisawentworth68312 жыл бұрын

    Great graphics in the beginning...I'm already intriqued...

  • @shariapplegate8015
    @shariapplegate80152 жыл бұрын

    Another great movie, thanks for sharing

  • @RobertYglesias-xb8ob
    @RobertYglesias-xb8ob Жыл бұрын

    Saw parts of the movie when I was very young and when I saw it again I knew that I was compelled to watch it and record it on my old VCR Recorder