A Heart in Pawn

1919 film by William Worthington

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