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Title: It's tonsillectomy time for the Tiu's-four go at once
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Woods, Jon
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Ginny Tiu was a piano prodigy and was invited to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show at the age of five. She appeared with her siblings Alexander, Vicky and Elizabeth in several movies including the 1962 Elvis Presley film Girls, Girls, Girls! The siblings appeared on many variety shows in the 1960s and even recorded an album. Ginny continued on with the piano and Vicky became the First Lady of Hawaii when she married Governor Ben Cayetano in 1997.
Photograph caption dated September 28, 1961 reads "They are, left to right, Alexander, Vicky, Ginny and Elizabeth." The article partially reads "Ginny, 7, the plucky little Chinese television entertainer-pianist; her brother, Alexander, 8, and sisters, Vicky, 4, and Elizabeth, 3, had their tonsils out en masse at Magnolia Park Hospital, 3919 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00140988
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d049_f6_i20
CARL0005713291
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/74452
Subject: Tiu, Ginny
Cayetano, Vicky
Tiu, Alexander
Tiu, Elizabeth
Brothers and sisters--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Children--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Pianists--California--Los Angeles
Entertainers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Tonsillectomy--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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