Lin Dai
essential information
Personal life
Early experience
Lin Dai, whose original name was Cheng Yueru, was born on December 26, 1934 in Binyang County, Guangxi Province. She was the eldest daughter of Cheng Siyuan, a famous political figure, and her mother was Jiang Xiuhua. Because of the war, Lin Dai lived a vagrant life in her childhood. In 1948, when she was still in junior high school at Huiwen women's middle school in Nanjing, she came to Hong Kong with her family for political reasons and continued to study in Xinya college.
In 1951, Lin Dai took a series of photos for the "salon studio" run by the famous photographer Zong Weigeng. One of the photos was enlarged and placed in the window cabinet, which attracted the attention of yuan Yang'an, the person in charge of great wall film production Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "great wall"), and immediately went to her audition head to become the basic actor of the company. According to the Chinese translation of her foreign name Linda, yuan Yang'an took her stage name as "Lin Dai".
Lin Dai never had a chance to make a film in the Great Wall. In 1952, she changed to Yonghua film company (Yonghua for short) on the recommendation of Yan Jun. As an adaptation of "Cuicui" based on Shen Congwen's famous book "border town", virgin became famous with her two braided, naive and lively image of a boat girl. After 1953, when Yonghua's economy was in recession, Lin Dai, as a free agent, made a lot of films for International Film Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dianmao") and Shaw Brothers Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shaw"), becoming a hot star. Among them, "red baby", produced by Dianmao, broke the record of selling Mandarin films in Hong Kong and Taiwan at that time when it was released in Hong Kong.
In 1957, Lin Dai won the first leading actress award at the fourth Asian Film Festival held in Tokyo for her fashion film "Golden Lotus" in the early Republic of China; in 1958, she won the fifth leading actress award at the Asian Film Festival held in Manila for her ancient costume Huangmei tune record "Diao Chan". In order to improve her acting skills, Lin went to the Department of drama, Columbia University in December 1957. In the United States, LindaI was interviewed by VOA. The New York Times, which sells 600000 copies a day, published a feature about Asian film queen LindaI: not all Hollywood stories take place in Hollywood. There are beautiful girls in every corner of the world. Before joining the film industry, LindaI was just an ordinary Hong Kong girl student. At the beginning of her opportunity, a photographer displayed her photos in the window along the street. Another far eastern producer, seeing the picture, came in and asked her name. From that moment on, Lin Dai soared to become one of the most popular stars in China. This petite and beautiful girl is regarded as the greatest discovery in the Far East after bird's nest soup. And only greedy people think bird's nest soup is greater than LindaI. According to the estimation of fans who like "fans of the Orient", one LindaI is worth twenty-five Susie Parker, eight Jen Mansfield and a lot of Marilyn Monroe. She's touring downtown New York Lin Dai came from the East and wore their unique split cheongsam as usual. But on the second day of arriving in the United States, she saw her busy in the hotel, sewing and doing some temporary mending. She pointed to the part above the knee and below the hip and explained: "I sew it a little bit because walking in the street attracts too much attention, as if many pedestrians are watching me." Although she has starred in dozens of films, and her favorite color film "red baby" will be released soon, LindaI is still an innocent girl. After she got off the plane, she couldn't even have dinner, so she went to the times studio to see the interior of New York, and at the same time, she strolled around Leighton
On this trip to the United States, Lin Dai met long shengxun, the fifth son of Long Yun, the former governor of Yunnan Province. They were married at Rose Hall in Kowloon on February 12, 1961.
Lin Dai formally joined Shaw after her marriage. In 1961, she won three awards for leading actress at the 8th Asian Film Festival held in Kuala Lumpur for her song and dance film "a thousand beauties" and four awards for leading actress at the 9th Asian Film Festival held in Seoul for her love tragedy "no love" in 1962. The success of the four winners not only wrote a glorious page for Lin Dai's personal artistic life, but also an unprecedented achievement in the history of Chinese film. From then on, Lin Dai became famous all over the world. "The legend of the White Snake", which was released in the same year, also broke the box office record of Chinese and foreign films in Hong Kong.
In December 1961, Lin Dai and Feng Baobao, the Cantonese film "gifted child star", became a friendly mother and daughter. On April 6, 1963, Lin Dai gave birth to a son named long Zonghan in a hospital in the suburb of New York.
On July 17, 1964, because of her "family troubles", Lin Dai committed suicide by turning on gas and taking medicine in her happy valley apartment. She died at the age of 30. After the news of Lin Dai's death came out, it shocked the Chinese society all over the world. On the day of the funeral, there were thousands of people in empty lanes, and the body was buried in the happy valley Catholic Cemetery.
On August 17, 1964, Shao's friends club and international photography company jointly sponsored the "exhibition of still photos of Lin Dai's life and life". It was held in the exhibition hall on the eighth floor of Hong Kong City Hall for two consecutive days, attracting a large number of people who miss Lin Dai to visit. The exhibition was held at the president's hotel in Kowloon from September 3 to 9 of the same year.
In 1966, Lin Dai's unfinished work "blue and black" won the special Memorial Award at the 13th Asian Film Festival.
On November 15, 1995, the Hongkong Post Office launched a series of four "Hong Kong movie stars" with different denominations. Lin Dai is the only Chinese movie star selected (other movie stars are Bruce Lee, Liang Xingbo and Ren Jianhui). It can be seen that although Lin Dai died more than 30 years ago, her beautiful image still lives in every fan's mind.
Study experience
1934.12.26－1964.7.17
Born in Nanning in 1934. He once studied in the Music Department of Guangxi provincial art college. In 1949, he moved to Hong Kong with his father Cheng Siyuan and studied in Leiden college and New Asia College. He joined great wall film company in 1950. He was transferred to Yonghua film company in 1952 and became famous for starring in the film Cuicui adapted from Shen Congwen's novel border town. After that, he starred nearly 40 films in Hong Kong Yonghua, Xinhua, Guofeng, Cathay Pacific, Shaw, Dianmao and other film companies, playing various roles. In 1957, she played two roles in the film "Golden Lotus" and won the best actress award at the 4th Asian Film Festival. In 1958, she starred in Diao Chan and won the best actress award at the 5th Asian Film Festival. Later, she starred in the song and dance film "a thousand beauties" and the literature and art film "no love". She won the best actress award of the 8th and 9th Asian Film Festival, and won the special Memorial Award of the 13th Asian Film Festival. She joined the drama department of Columbia University as an honorary student. Later, he married long Chengxun and gave birth to a son. He was proud of his career and love It's a pity that in the end it's a suicide scene, which is a pity. In 1958, Lin Dai played Li Feng, who fell in love with emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, in Huang Mei Diao's ancient costume film "Jiangshan beauty". With her unique talent for performance and profound dramatic cultivation, Li Feng's complex emotions are incised into a subtle and touching way, which makes her sing three times and make her feel refreshed. Lin Dai once again won the best actress award at the Asian Film Festival. More importantly, Shao took this film as the first work to open up the international film market, which became the beginning of "Shao's production must be a good film". Portrait
Growth experience
Her original name is Cheng Yueru, her English name is Linda, and her stage name "Lin Dai" is a transliteration of her English name. She is the most famous Mandarin film actress in Hong Kong history. She set the record of best actress in four consecutive Asian film festivals, and no one has ever broken it. He is from Binyang, Guangxi. Born in 1934. His father is Cheng Siyuan, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress. He studied in Nanjing Chinese women's middle school and took part in drama performance, which won high praise. He settled in Hong Kong in 1949 and studied in New Asia English Academy. He was discovered by the star scout the next year and joined the great wall film company in 1951, but he didn't have a chance to film. In 1951, with the help of Yan Jun, a famous actor and director, he transferred to Yonghua film company to shoot his first work "Cuicui" (1953), which became popular among the audience and became the target of competition between the two major film companies at that time, "Dianmao" and "Shao". Lin Dai has cooperated with the two film companies, which has broadened her theatrical career. She has successively made films with different styles and forms, such as "Golden Lotus" (1957), "love is like a battlefield" (1957), "Diao Chan" (1958), "Yanhou in the clouds" (1959), "Jiangshan beauty" (1959), "qianjiaobaimei" (1961), "Buqing" (1961), "White Snake" (1962) . Among them, "Golden Lotus", "Diao Chan", "qianjiaobaimei" and "Buqing" made her become an Asian film queen for four times, with no difference at all. He became the first and most famous Chinese movie star to win this honor. In 1962, he married long shengxun, the son of Yunnan warlord Long Yun, and his family was at odds. On July 17, 1964, Lin Dai took too much sleeping pills and inhaled gas to commit suicide in her apartment. She lost her life and died at the age of 30. At that time, she still had two films "the lotus lamp" (1965) and "blue and black" (1966) unfinished, so the film company had to find a similar looking actor, Du die, to continue. These two films have also become LindaI's last works. The last one is blue and black.
Award winning record
Main works
Music Album
Major films
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