A Heart in Pawn

A Heart in Pawn
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Directed by	William Worthington
Written by	Frances Guihan (scenario) Thomas J. Geraghty (scenario)
Starring	Sessue Hayakawa Vola Vale Tsuru Aoki
Cinematography	Dal Clawson
Production company	Haworth Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Robertson-Cole
Release date	March 20, 1919 (1919-03-20) (USA)
Running time	50 min.
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

A Heart in Pawn is a 1919 American silent^[1] drama film directed by William Worthington. Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation produced the film and Worthington played the lead role along with Vola Vale and his wife Tsuru Aoki.^[2]

The film included sequences filmed at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.^[3]

Cast

Sessue Hayakawa and child actor

• Sessue Hayakawa as Tomaya
• Vola Vale as Emily Stone
• Tsuru Aoki as Sada
• Florence Vidor as Dr. Stone's daughter

Preservation

With no prints of A Heart in Pawn located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[4]

References

1. Gevinson, Alan (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911–1960. University of California Press. p. 1180. ISBN 978-0-520-20964-0.
2. Miyao, Daisuke (28 March 2007). Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Duke University Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-8223-3969-4.
3. "A Heart in Pawn". afi.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
4. "American Silent Feature Film Database: A Heart in Pawn". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 21, 2024.

External links

• A Heart in Pawn at IMDb