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Archival Treasures: Miyoshi Umeki, First Asian Woman to Win Oscar

Miyoshi Umeki accepting her Academy Award in 1958

Born May 8, 1929 in Otaru, Japan, Miyoshi Umeki led a multifaceted and historically significant career as one of the few actors of Asian descent to attain prominence in Hollywood motion pictures, television and on Broadway in her era. Today, some of her moving image legacy is archived at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and available for research viewing at the Archive Research and Study Center.

Drawn to music at a young age, Miyoshi Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer and recording artist in Japan, performing popular American songs that she learned phonetically. Her accomplished vocals and endearing personality landed her a recurring spot on the CBS variety show Arthur Godfrey and His Friends and a contract with Mercury Records in 1955. Her performances on West Coast television earned her a regional Emmy Award for Outstanding Female Personality in 1958. That same year in film, Umeki made history as the first woman of Asian descent to receiv

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Umeki, Miyoshi

Born May 8, 1929, in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan; died of complications from cancer, August 28, 2007, in Licking, MO. Actress. Miyoshi Umeki’s tragic role in the 1957 film Sayonara earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first Asian performer ever to win an Oscar. Her career included stints on Broadway and on the hit ABC sitcom The Courtship of Eddie’s Father from 1969 to 1972, but Umeki left show business for good when she became a wife and mother.

Born in 1929, Umeki came from an affluent family in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, where her father owned an iron factory. She was the youngest of nine chil- dren, and was rarely missed by the bustling household when she snuck off to catch performances at the local Kabuki theatre. A talented musician on several instruments, she played the harmonica, mandolin, and piano. “I just loved any sound that you could do it with instrument,” as she told an interviewer for Time in the 1950s. She also taught herself American pop songs from imported records and, when U.S. forces occupied Japan in the afte

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