Top Ten Old Shanghai Beauties
1, Wang Renmei
In the skimming of the old Shanghai's prosperity and extravagance, a fuzzy image is gradually becoming clear, she is Wang Renmei, a star of the movie industry known as "Wildcat". The movie "Fishlight", which she starred in, was a great success. She starred in the movie "Fisherman's Song", which can be regarded as the classic of a hundred years of Chinese cinema; she sang the song "Singing Girl under the Iron Heel" for more than 70 years; she and the old Shanghai's red-hot movie star Jin Yan's marriage is still confusing. In her later years, when she summarized her life, she regarded fame as the misfortune of her life. Wang Renmei, the legendary life of a sensual redhead.
In the movie "Fishing Song", the scene of "Kitten" Wang Renmei casting a net to catch fish on the sea has become a classic shot of a hundred years of Chinese cinema, and that bright cloud of fragrance, along with the theme song she sang in the movie, has continued to smell good for more than seventy years and has not deteriorated. The release of "Fishing Song" caused a great reaction in the Chinese film industry at that time. "Fishing Song" showed for the first time on the screen the miserable life of the working people of the lower class in China in that era. The red-faced king people beautiful, she thus left behind the incense from the folk nearest to our mood.
Belonging to the last century, the beauty of that section certainly can not continue to the present, many years later, the world did not reincarnation, just far away from the shadow can still see so familiar, smell some familiar flavor just. And belonging to the old Shanghai Wang Renmei, is a that a flower, although there is a blooming brilliant, there is also a fading bleak. But in any case, every step, with the wind, dancing with the wind.
Wang Renmei
2, Gong Qiuxia
In the Shanghai red incense, Gong Qiuxia alone to "plum blossom" stunning Shanghai Bund. She was fourteen years old to join the "Plum Blossom Song and Dance Troupe", and Zhang Xianlin, etc. because of the singing voice of the beautiful dance and was compared to the "Plum Blossom five tigers". Old Shanghai's public opinion once praised her this way: Gong Qiuxia's songs are best listened to in the morning, because her songs are full of youthful vigor, staccato, sweet and gentle ....... This is a wonderful metaphor for the current fans of the song body with the same feeling.
Gong Qiuxia in 1937 starred in the film "Guta Qiqi Case" in the episode of the song "autumn water Yi Ren" is a popular and immortal old song. In the movie, played by Gong Qiuxia Feng Zhen, every night before going to bed looking at her daughter Zhen, mixed feelings, with her high-pitched sadness of the soft voice sang that song of the mournful and sad "Iren in the Autumn Water", let a person moved. "Looking through the autumn water, do not see Iren's silhouette, more residual leakage, the lonely geese two or three voices ......" This song teaches people to reminisce!
Gong Qiuxia
3, Pan Yuliang
Pan Yuliang, can be said to be the most legendary red woman in the old Shanghai, her confusing life as well as the bewildering encounters, have made her name in the picture of the old Shanghai painted by her own hand is framed as a splash of bright colors.
If Huang Yingying's womanly scent flows from her singing, then Pan Yuliang's womanly scent wafts from the oil paint. From *** to concubine to painter, her extraordinary life encounter, like a painting full of riddles, as if with a Mona Lisa-like compulsion charm makes people soulful, evocative. And from the oil color emanates out of the condensed fragrance, surprisingly, a city, an era of indulgence, long refused to wake up.
The TV series "Painting Soul" broadcast by Theater One has intercepted the most gorgeous and touching decade of Pan Yuliang's life, and the legendary talented woman Pan Yuliang is so close to us again through light and shadow after decades, which is perhaps the most desirable touch of fragrance we desire when we watch Shanghai Bund's style.
The TV series "The Spirit of Painting" tells the story of Pan Yuliang's legendary life: at the age of eighteen, Pan Yuliang, who was born in a greenhouse, embarked on the road of art with the help of two men, and rose to the top in the art capital of Paris, becoming a renowned painter in the Middle East and the West, which is definitely an anomaly, or more accurately, a legend. At the same time, she struggled with the emotions of these two men and another woman throughout her life, with no intention of relying on them, but difficult to part with them, and finally died alone.
Pan Yuliang
This is Pan Yuliang, the famous French painter of the last century, who brought us a period of aging fragrance of old Shanghai and exotic flavors from Shanghai to Paris, the capital of art.
4, Zhou Xuan
Speaking of the old Shanghai red face incense, Zhou Xuan is a piece of long-lasting really fragrant jade, as her name has a symbol of jade "Xuan", her life, gorgeous and heavy.
Zhou Xuan childhood misfortune, was several times sent to raise, seven or eight years old, was sent to a song and dance class, everywhere involved in literature and art. 1934, Shanghai "Evening News" organized "broadcasting singer campaign", Zhou Xuan results in second place, the radio station said that her voice "such as the golden flute into the heart", won the "Golden Flute", "the first time in the world. In 1937, Zhou Xuan sang "When Will You Come Again", which became a household name; in 1941, Zhou Xuan also sang "Songs of the Four Seasons" and "Songs of the End of the World" in the movie "The Angel of the Road", which have been passed down to this day and become immortal songs. The two songs have been handed down to this day and have become immortal classic songs.
Zhou Xuan
Zhou Xuan, the "Golden Voice", not only sang outstandingly, but also presented her in light and shadow, of which "The Angel of the Road" was Zhou Xuan's representative work. It is said that after the victory of the war, Zhao Dan and Zhou Xuan met in Shanghai and asked Zhou Xuan what films she had made over the years. Zhou Xuan said sadly, "Don't mention it, there is not a single movie that I like, there is only one 'Road Angel' in my life ......"
Zhou Xuan's emotional life has been bumpy, and her three marriages all ended in failure, just as she sang in her song. Calling people to think about ...... not crazy, not live, in the show business unlimited scenery Zhou Xuan was diagnosed with mental illness, in 1957, she was sent to the hospital with sudden encephalitis, a generation of redheads, and thus left the world. But her voice is still growing today.
5, Hu Die
In an era when petty capitalism is so prevalent, the old Shanghai is undoubtedly the dream home of many people. The lights and greenery, the wind and snow, were compressed into a yellowed film, and the glamor and glory of the past have been flickering until today, and Hu Die is the most gorgeous image in those films.
Although in today's Shanghai Auxiliary, this girl, who was renamed "Hu Die" after she grew up, has gradually become unfamiliar, but by following the deep flavor, we can find the scent of incense in the stormy old Shanghai more than 70 years ago. At that time, her name was the pride of the city and the flavor of the city. Butterfly, the legendary actress of old Shanghai, has starred in more than a hundred films, successfully played all kinds of female images of different classes in China, and became the synchronizer and witness of the pioneering and growing period of Chinese movies.
Hu Butterfly was crowned queen of the movie, not only by the fans, but also for the advertisers favored, do the most ads naturally, named after her name of the goods is also a lot, even like to enable the international superstar to do publicity of the Rex soap, but also invited Hu Butterfly to do ads. At that time, Hu Die's image was very much in line with the traditional Chinese beauty standard. In addition to her silver face, bright eyes, white teeth and creamy skin, the pair of dimples on her cheeks were her signature. This star, who made her name in the movie industry as a "pear-swirl beauty", was the "dream girl" of Chinese men in that era.
Hu Butterfly
In 1975, Hu Butterfly went to Canada to settle down under the alias of Pan Baojuan, and on April 23, 1989, Hu Butterfly, who had been dancing for nearly a century, died in Vancouver due to illness. Her last words before dying were, "Hu Die is going to fly away!" Hu Butterfly eventually butterfly and go, her beautiful figure but long stay on earth, together with the left behind and that cut the dust of the past, Hu Butterfly so fly away, in another world to continue to dance, and ultimately turned into the soul of the flowers, leaving only that wisp of the residual fragrance, and still stubbornly drilling into the depths of our souls.
6, Eileen Chang
In the old Shanghai of the dreary incense, Eileen Chang is always the first incense, when we unveil the old Shanghai of the flower album, the first look is always left to Eileen Chang. Yellowed paper, fuzzy black and white printing, a generation of strange woman but dressed in a gorgeous cheongsam, arrogantly tilted his head ...... believe that all the people will be fascinated by the woman's legend, nobility and pride at that moment.
The first time I read Eileen Chang, most of them are in the age of that seem to understand, is not to see anything. Just that kind of hazy old Shanghai's petty, like that cup of coffee, spread out, filled with the whole mood; re-read Eileen Chang, lamented the famous saying: famous before it's too late ah ...... original in her insight into the world of the cold eyes after, also have this feeling! Third read Zhang Eileen, mood from her emotional world, in the seemingly strong, proud Zhang Eileen behind, a love road is bumpy, and then more proud can only be turned into helpless. Thus, Zhang Eileen carefully lit the stove incense, always in the dead of night, smoked wet a number of years after you and I eyes, that moment of red incense, it is so deep.
Eileen Chang
"Life is a gorgeous robe, crawling with lice," how prosperous and bustling the world, Eileen Chang's hand gently a mortgage, but let us see the curtain of prosperity after the mourning cool life desert. In the general feeling, the cool should be gray kind, some trance, some confused, and her cool is not so, colorful, warm, comfortable, and even that touch of fragrance.
7, Ruan Lingyu
Gazing across the river, belonging to the shore side of the old Shanghai's pomp and circumstance has been fascinating eyes, but behind the pomp and circumstance is a kind of inexplicable pain. The sad mood flavor, we sent across the sea of time to Ruan Lingyu, an old Shanghai tragedy queen of the theater dream life.
The movie "Ruan Lingyu" presents us with the old Shanghai landscape and the legendary life of Ruan Lingyu. The slinky and decadent splendor of Maggie Cheung truly hands over that 70-year-old fragrant soul to us, and through the precipitation of the years, Maggie Cheung opens the furnace of incense that belongs to Ruan Lingyu.
Ruan Lingyu is really for the silent movie born of the people, although she did not say a word on the screen, this "silent era" queen, only with the limbs and eyes for us to pass the breathless flavor. 1926, forced to make ends meet, Ruan Lingyu as the film "titular couple" heroine, a shot at fame. In 1929, Ruan Lingyu starred in the movie "Spring Dreams in the Old City", playing *** Yan Yan was a success, which established her position in the movie industry. The golden age of Ruan Lingyu's performing art was the mid-1930s, when she starred in influential films such as Three Modern Women, Gadgets, Night in the City, The Goddess, and The New Woman. ...... Ruan Lingyu's acting skills were rich in innocence, strong yet delicate and skillful, and simple yet natural, with no traces of sculpture. There is no trace of carving, so the Chinese "Greta Garbo" reputation has spread. However, weak, sensitive red face ultimately thin life, the actress stood in the peak of Chinese actress acting, but in the emotional road all the way to the bumpy road, so she left behind the "people's words can be afraid of" after the sentiment, she ended her wonderful and helpless life, a generation of red face of the jade meteorites.
Ruan Lingyu
8, Shangguan Yunzhu
Jiangsu-born Shangguan Yunzhu to the age of 19 began her life in the true sense of the word, this year, she went through a few turns to Shanghai, in the Pushki Road (now Changle Road), Qingfuli 236, No. 18, a crowded alleyway house, Shangguan Yunzhu began her beautiful life of the Shanghai Bund! The story of a beautiful life in the Shanghai Bund.
In the early 1940s, Shangguan Yunzhu made her film debut, The Rose Floats Away, and began to make a name for herself in the movie world. In the late 1940s, many of the progressive films she made in the Kunlun Film Company, which was led by the "left-wing" cultural movement, such as A River Flows East, Lillian's Journey, Early February, Ten Thousand Lights, and The Crow and the Sparrow, became famous classic Chinese business cards, and Shangguan Yunzhu, a woman who had come out of the old Shanghai, was finally transformed into a new woman, a woman who could not be seen without her own eyes. The woman, finally transformed, condensed into a section of ice and jade incense.
Shangguan Yunzhu
Shangguan Yunzhu's women's scent is interesting, her eyes are pretty, there is in line with the aesthetics of the South of the exquisite small mouth, a typical Shanghai beauty shrewd and sophisticated look, with a little bit of dusty gas smoldering in the inside and the South of Jiangnan small house of the nature of the girl, so she is often chosen by the director of the role of Shanghai's flower, the businessman family's grandma, the tycoon Zhang crazy wife, under the thinly drawn eyebrows, she is the only one who has ever played the role of a woman, and she has been a good woman, she has been a good woman. Her eyes, under finely drawn eyebrows, would show the meanness of a sharp razor.
But Shangguan Yunzhu's cleanliness did not allow her to escape the trickery of history, during the "Great Unrest", Shangguan Yunzhu was brutally persecuted, and died on November 22, 1968.
9, Lili Lai
The name Lili Lai is unfamiliar to today's stargazers, but she was the same generation as Ruan Lingyu, a famous actress, and earlier than Zhou Xuan, the "Golden Voice". Zhou Xuan earlier than the "golden voice" to join the screen of the old Shanghai generation of superstars. When you look at the history of Chinese movie performances in the past hundred years, she was the last one to die among the actresses who enjoyed fame both at home and abroad during the silent movie period.
Lily Lai was born in 1915 in Beiping. Her original name was Nicco Qian. Her father, Qian Zhuangfei, was an underground member of the Chinese ****production party. She was a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province. In 1926, she played her first role in the film "Yanshan Chivalry".
In 1927, she moved to Shanghai, where her father sent her to study singing and dancing with the China Song and Dance Troupe organized by Lai Kam Fai, which was later renamed the Ming Yue Song and Dance Troupe. She performed with the troupe in the Nanyang area, and because of her outstanding performance, she was known as one of the three best singers and dancers together with Wang Renmei and Hu Die. Lai Kam Fai loved her so much that he took her as his goddaughter and changed her last name to Lai. 1931, Lai Lai Lai Lai was transferred with the troupe to the United Chinese Pictures Company, and the troupe was renamed the United Chinese Singing and Dancing Classes, which was disbanded in 1932. She joined the UMC as a basic actress.
In 1932, she starred in Volcanic Love and Blood, directed by Sun Yu, and also co-starred with Wang Renmei in Poetry on a Plantain Leaf in the same year. In 1933, she starred in Daybreak and took part in the filming of Gadgets. In 1933, she starred in "Tianming" and took part in the filming of "Gadgets". Later, Sun Yu wrote several scripts for her to star in, such as "Sports Queen" and "The Great Road", in which she conquered the audience with her lively, healthy, and contemporary image, and was recognized as a typical "Sweet Sister", which was quite popular among the students and young people at that time.
Lili Lai
After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, she joined the China Film Studio, where she co-starred with Gao Zhanfei in "Fervent Souls of the Loyal," and married Luo Jingzi, the studio's head of technology at the time. In 1939, she traveled to Hong Kong from Chongqing to take part in the filming of Hong Kong's "Paradise of the Lonely Island," which was directed by Tsai Chusheng of Hong Kong's Dadi Pictures, and which was an extremely successful movie after it was released.
In 1940, she returned to Chongqing, in the "in the system" starred in "the winds and clouds on the Seychelles", her performance in the film was well received, in 1946, she went to the United States, in Washington, D.C., Catholic University to study acting, to New York to study the language and voice, to the University of California summer school make-up, but also to Hollywood to observe! She returned to China in 1947. After the liberation, she went to Beijing Film Studio as an actress, took part in the shooting of Taking Hua Shan, and in 1955, she entered the Beijing Film Academy specialization class, and then stayed in the school as a professor of the Department of Acting.
Zhu'er in Gadgets, Jasmine in The Big Road, Xiaoyu in Wolf Mountain Bloodbath, and The Sports Queen, behind those unrestrained narratives, the woman who dared to love and hate without losing the beauty of her delicate specialties lived quietly in a corner of the southern city of Beijing, enjoying her old age and the smoky past that belonged to her alone.
10, Qin Yi
Known as the "Venus of the Orient", Qin Yi, as the theater artist Xin Fengxia said: "Because of the beauty of her character and quality, she was able to portray so many beautiful characters, including the great mother. great mothers." It is based on this inner beauty that Qin Yi has become the thickest and most mellow of the Shanghai red-faced incense.
If the old Shanghai gave most of the actresses active in this unlimited flavor outside, there is a little bit of wind and moon regret, then Qin Yi is an alternative, born in Shanghai, a large feudal family of Qin Yi, the continuation of many of the old Shanghai red face of the knowledge, flavor and spirit, but the dust and wind and moon are all abandoned, which may be the Qin Yi progress. Progress of Qin Yi as early as in the war period, with Bai Yang, Shu Xiwen, Zhang Ruifang, together known as the war in the rear of the Chongqing theater stage "four famous girls". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qin Yi played important roles in many movies. In 1983, she starred in the TV series "Under the Roof of Shanghai", which once again showed the world her extraordinary acting skills.
Qin Yi
The mellow Qin Yi was supported by a beautiful and simple heart, but this could not stop her destiny from being ill-fated: after her first failed marriage, in 1947, at the age of 25, she married Jin Yan, the famous "movie star" of the 1930s, and became a much talked about "Silver Twins". They became the much-celebrated "two wings of the silver world". But the good times didn't last long, and the couple gradually became emotionally dislocated. After Jin Yan's death, Qin Yi took good care of her son for decades and tasted the hardships of life. But after the fate of the experience, Qin Yi, the "Venus of the East" but increasingly cohesive into a section of people admire the incense, and has continued to this day.