Subject(s): Miiko Taka

Format: 8 x 10 Glossy Photograph.

Origin: Authentic vintage Universal Pictures photograph provided to media outlets for promotional use.

Title: The Art of Love

Category: Movies

Original Release Date: 1965

Condition: Excellent

Comments: Miiko Taka (born Miiko Shikata, July 24, 1925 - January 4, 2023) was an American actress, popular for her film and television roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. Her best known role was as an elegant Japanese dancer starring with Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara. The Art of Love is a 1965 technicolor comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson and Miiko Taka. The film involves an American artist in Paris (Van Dyke) who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new paintings keep "posthumously" hitting the market). His conniving pal (Garner) sells the paintings and withholds the proceeds while the artist toils in a shabby garret.