was unable to join the tour as Japanese Americans were barred from leaving the country, and she had several months without work. She was also unable to perform in California and other parts of the western United States when the company toured there later in the same year, as these states were deemed military areas and were off-limits for people of Japanese descent. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Osato briefly pursued a career as an actress, appearing on Broadway in Peer Gynt, in the film The Kissing Bandit with Frank Sinatra, and in occasional guest appearances on television series such as, The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950). In 1980, Osato published an autobiography titled Distant Dances. In 2006, she founded the Sono Osato Scholarship Program in Graduate Studies at Career Transition For Dancers to help former dancers finance graduate work in both the professions and the liberal arts. In 2016, Thodos Dance Company in Chicago presented a dance production based on her life, titled Sono's Journey. Personal life Osato married real estate developer Victor Elmaleh in 1943, and they had two sons. Elmaleh died in November 2014, aged 95. Osato died at her home in Manhattan on December 26, 2018, at the age of 99. She was the aunt of the installation artist of the same name, Sono Osato. Filmography References External links Photograph of Osato in costume 1919 births 2018 deaths American ballerinas American film actresses American musical theatre actresses American television actresses Donaldson Award winners American actresses of Japanese descent American film actors of Asian descent American people of Irish descent American people of French-Canadian descent Actresses from Omaha, Nebraska American dancers of Asian descent 20th-century American actresses Dancers from Nebraska American autobiographers Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers Women autobiographers 21st-century American women 20th-century American ballet dancers