The Dragon Painter
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The Dragon Painter is a 1919 silent film. It is based on a novel, The Dragon Painter, written by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. It stars Sessue Hayakawa
as a mentally disturbed young painter who believes that his fiancée, Hayakawa's wife Tsuru Aoki
, is a princess who has been captured and turned into a dragon. It was directed by William Worthington
and filmed in Yosemite Valley
, Yosemite National Park
, California
, USA.
Sessue Hayakawa
was a Japanese and American Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors...
as a mentally disturbed young painter who believes that his fiancée, Hayakawa's wife Tsuru Aoki
Tsuru Aoki
was a popular Japanese-American stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top-billing in American motion pictures.-Life and career:...
, is a princess who has been captured and turned into a dragon. It was directed by William Worthington
William Worthington (actor)
William Worthington was an American silent film actor and director.-Career:...
and filmed in Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of California, carved out by the Merced River. The valley is about long and up to a mile deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines...
, Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, USA.