1950's News-clippings

June 2017
Recently I was able to find more than 170 news-clippings on Yoshiko - all mainly within her 1950 - 1958 phase when she came to the United States (or 'occupied' the American media). Instead of putting these articles in the biography chronologically (it takes a lot of time), I just decided to put them all on one page where they can be read and appreciated all in one go, so here they are:

1946 Christmas eve:

"Navy Wife" 1956

1948 Magazine Cover:

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1950

Yamaguchi was a main female character in the 1950 movie "Scandal", an intellectual film:

Jun 06:

1950 Jun 07:

Jun 13:

Jun 14:

1950 Jun 14:

Jun 15:

Jun 15:

Jun 25:

Jun 25:

Jun 27:

Jun 30:

Jun 30:

1950 Jul 01:

1950 Jul 04:

1950 Jul 05:

Jul 6:

Jul 6:

1950 Jul 13:

July 15:

1950 Jul 18:

July 19:

Jul 21:

Jul 25:

1950 Jul 28:

Aug 09:


Aug 15:




Aug 19:

1950 Sep 14:

1950 Sep 24:

1950 Dec 10:

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1951

May 22: 

1951 Jul 3:

Jul 9:

Jul 18:

Jul 25:

Jul 26:

Jul 27:

1951 Aug 04:

1951 Aug 05:

Aug 05:

King Vidor with Yoshiko:

1951 Aug 08:

Aug 09:

Aug 15:

1951 Aug 15:

1951 Aug 22:

Sep 09:

1951 Sep 16:

Yoshiko on the back-cover of a Japanese Magazine, Nov 1951:

with her life story included:

Dec 1951 Pacific Stars and Stripes:

 

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1952

1952 Jan 14:

Jan 27:

1952 Feb 02:

Feb 06:

1952 Feb 11:

1952 Feb 11:

Feb 14:

Feb 21:

Japanese War Bride Exhibitor's Campaign Book:

this was given to all the distributors and movie houses in order to provide publicity posters, articles, pictures, and ideas on how to market the film - it's an interesting look at how the film industry was/is able to entice us to go watch films:

Feb 24:

1952 JWB Movie Still:

May 10:

1952 Oct 26 Hawaii Theaters:

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1953

1953 Nov 10: 

1953 Nov 20:

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1954

1954 May

1954 Jul 20:

Sep 27:

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Oct 22:

Oct 22:

Oct 27:

Nov 20:

1954 Dec 15:

Dec 15:

1954 Dec 21 US Steel Hour:

Dec 21:

1954 Dec 21:

1954 Dec 21 Presento:

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1955

1955 Jan 21:

Jan 24:

Jan 26:

Feb 9: Sam Fuller and film crew film the opening scenes of House of Bamboo with train and Mount Fuji in background:

Feb 23:

Mar 14:

Link: Yoshiko receives huge bouquets of flowers.

Mar 21:

Apr 09:

1955 Apr 30:

1955 April Ball, Phil:

May 11:

May 16:

May 27:

May 31:

May 31:

May 31:

Jul 10

Jul 10:

Jul 12:

Jul 14:

House of Bamboo Exhibitor's Campaign Book:

this was given to all the distributors and movie houses in order to provide publicity posters, articles, pictures, and ideas on how to market the film - plus it gives us more information and pictures about Yoshiko and how involved she was in the film process:

Jul 16:

Jul 23:

Jul 28:

Jul 29:

Aug 09:

Aug 14:

1955 Aug 31:

1955 Aug 31:

1955 Sep 01:

Sep 03:

1955 Sep 07:

1955 Sep 11: (that's Sam Fuller standing on top of the scaffold while shooting this famous statue):

The Great Buddha of Kamakura is a monumental outdoor bronze statue of Amitābha Buddha located at the Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The bronze statue probably dates from 1252, in the Kamakura period, according to temple records. It was preceded by a giant wooden Buddha, which was completed in 1243 after ten years of continuous labor, the funds having been raised by Lady Inada (Inada-no-Tsubone) and the Buddhist priest Jōkō of Tōtōmi. That wooden statue was damaged by a storm in 1248, and the hall containing it was destroyed, so Jōkō suggested making another statue of bronze, and the huge amount of money necessary for this and for a new hall was raised for the project. The bronze image was probably cast by Ōno Gorōemon or Tanji Hisatomo, both leading casters of the time. At one time, the statue was gilded. There are still traces of gold leaf near the statue's ears.

1955 Sep 18:

Oct 30:

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1956

1956 Jan 10:


Jan 28:

Jan 30:

Jan 30:

1956 Feb 03:

1956 Feb 05:

1956 Feb 12:

1956 May, June: about the Broadway play "Shangri-La":

May 13:

May 29:

1956 Jun 20:

1956 Jun 23: the Edgar Bergen Hour:

1956 Jun 24 Hon Advert:

1956 Jul 15 Television Shows:


Ed Sullivan Show:

1956 Aug 8 Frankie Laine Show:

1956 Oct 24:

Oct 20:

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1957

1957 Mar 03: in Pearl Buck play "The Enemy":

1957 Mar 04:

1957 Mar 06:

1957 Jun 4: Is it likely that Yamaguchi would publicly write the following to a fan?

she said "I am not a Japanese, but a Chinese born in Fushun in Manchuria"

Sep 4:

1958 Yamaguchi retires from film-work after marriage:

1958 Mar 12:

May 15

1958 Dec 28:

1960 Still going strong on TV:

Jan 24:

1960 Feb 06:

1960 Feb 06:

1960 Feb 06: in "Japan: The People":

 1960 Mar 13:

1960 Jul 17:

1960 Jul 23:

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1974 Jan 02:

1989 Aug 26:

Pacific Stars and Stripes, Dec 1991:

2009 Jan 11: flawed fiction novel "The China Lover":