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    Shirley MacLaine

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    Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori

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    My Geisha 1962 POSTER

    My Geisha

    1962

    English

    6.5

    4

    61%

    61%

    Action

    Comedy

    Drama

    geisha

    husband wife relationship

    jealousy

    love triangle

    mistaken identity

    Romance

    tokyo, japan

    Jack Cardiff Jack Cardiff Director Robert Cummings Robert Cummings as Bob Moore Shirley MacLaine Shirley MacLaine as Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori Edward G. Robinson Edward G. Robinson as Sam Lewis Nobuo Chiba Nobuo Chiba as Shig
    Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
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