''The Dragon Painter'' is a 1906 novel written by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. A review published in the ''Los Angeles Herald'' called it the author's "ripest and most artistic work". The 1919 American film ''

The Dragon Painter ''The Dragon Painter'' is a 1919 English language silent romance drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. It stars Sessue Hayakawa as a young painter who believes that his fiancée (played by Hayak ...

'', starring

Sessue Hayakawa , known professionally as , was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man i ...

and

Tsuru Aoki was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific in the United States during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s. Aoki may have been the first Asian actress to garner top billing in American motion pictures. ...

was based on it.

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1906 American novels American novels adapted into films American romance novels {{1900s-romance-novel-stub