A Heart in Pawn explained

A Heart in Pawn
Director:	William Worthington
Cinematography:	Dal Clawson
Studio:	Haworth Pictures Corporation
Distributor:	Robertson-Cole
Runtime:	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 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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Gevinson, Alan. Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911–1960. 1997. University of California Press. 978-0-520-20964-0. 1180.
2. Book: Miyao, Daisuke. Daisuke Miyao

   . Daisuke Miyao. Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. 28 March 2007. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-3969-4. 305.

3. Web site: A Heart in Pawn . afi.com . March 21, 2024.
4. Web site: American Silent Feature Film Database: A Heart in Pawn . March 21, 2024 . Library of Congress.