essential information
Early experience
In 1908, Hu die was born in a common house near Yihe wharf of Tilan Bridge in Shanghai. When Hu die was 3 years old, her father, Hu Shaogong, was promoted by her brother-in-law, Tang Shaoyi, who was the Prime Minister of the Beiyang government, to be the chief inspector of the Beijing Fengshui railway. When Hu die was young, she moved to Tianjin, Beijing, Guangzhou and other places with her parents. Hu Die learned to speak jingpianzi, Cantonese and Shanghainese during her travels.
When Hu die was a child, her family invited a gentleman to enlighten her. At the age of 8, Hu Die entered Tianjin Catholic Shenggong women's school, from which Hu Die developed the habit of reading.
When Hu die was 9 years old, her family moved to Guangzhou. Hu Die entered Guangzhou Peidao school (Guangzhou No.7 Middle School), where she spent her childhood. After graduating from Peidao school, Hu Die transferred to Beijing public first normal school.
At the age of 16, Hu Die's family returned to Shanghai. In the same year, Hu Di was admitted to China Film School, China's first film actor training school founded by Zeng Huantang.
Acting experience
In 1925, Hu die was invited to take part in the shooting of the film "battle success" directed by Xu Xinfu and starred by Zhang Zhiyun and Wang Yuanlong, and then began her career as a film actress. In the same year, Hu Die entered the Youlian film company and starred in the tragedy "autumn fan resentment" like a gifted man and a beautiful woman. In 1926, she joined Tianyi film company, and then successively shot the love film "the painful history of Liang Zhu" and the feature film "Pearl Tower".
In 1928, she switched to star company. Hu Die's first movie in the star company was starring with Ruan Lingyu in "white cloud tower", in which she played the decent female actress Fengzi. Later, she shot the martial arts movie "burning the Red Lotus Temple" one after another, which soon entered the public view.
In 1930, she took part in the first movie "Mudan", which was released in 1930.
In 1932, Hu Die appeared in the movie "cause of crying and laughing". On March 5, 1933, Hu die made China's first left-wing film "wild flow", in which she played Xiujuan, the daughter of a rich businessman. In the same year, Shanghai Star daily launched a campaign to elect the movie queen. She was elected "movie queen" by 21334 votes. In the same year, he starred in the film "flower of freedom" and played Impatiens in the film. The film was also rated as an excellent film by China Education Film Association, and was sent to the International Film Competition in Italy to win the prize. In addition, the film sister flowers, starring Hu Die in the same year, is her representative work of performing arts.
In 1935, the Soviet Union held a Moscow Film Festival to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the birth of Soviet films. Hu Die, as the only film actor in the delegation, was invited to Moscow to participate in the event with "Sister Flowers" and "Yuguang Qu".
In 1937, the Lugouqiao Incident broke out. On November 12, Shanghai fell, star film company was destroyed in the war, and Hu Ditong's family went to Hong Kong. Unequaled in beauty, Wang Naidong and her beloved actress, the February 11, 1940 romantic costume, "the beauty of the world" is on Chinese mainland.
On May 23, 1941, the love film Peacock Flying Southeast starring Hu Die and Wang Yuanlong was released in Hong Kong, China. In the winter of the same year, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong. The head of the art and Energy Department of the Japanese army's report department and Yukio Kuda broke into Hu Die's house twice to mobilize her to make films with them, but both of them were rejected by her. Hejiu also offered to let her visit Tokyo, so as to make a film Hu Die's visit to Tokyo, which promoted the so-called "Sino Japanese Friendship". However, she resolutely refused to be associated with the Japanese invaders, pretended to be pregnant, and fled back to the mainland overnight. After the fall of Hong Kong, Hu Die and her family went back to Chongqing in the mainland, starring in "three women" and other films of "CLP", and also staged a charity performance to promote the Anti Japanese war.
On August 30, 1947, her love film "a dream of spring" was shown in Hong Kong, China; on September 8, her costume film "splendid paradise" starring Wang Danfeng was shown in Hong Kong, China; on September 16, the same year, she starred in the crime film "a lady" with Wang Hao. Later, she decided to bid farewell to the film industry and concentrate on helping pan Yousheng engage in business.
In 1959, she returned to the film industry, which had been separated for 10 years, and made films for Shaw company. On February 17, 1960, Hu Die, Xiao Fangfang, Chen Yanyan and others starred in the family movie "a tale of wandering children". On June 23, she starred in the drama two generations of women with Ding Ning, Hong Bo and Tan Ying. On July 20, Hu Die, David Jiang, Yang Zhiqing and Yan Huizhu starred in the film street boy. In the same year, she won the best actress award at the 7th Asian Film Festival for her role as "Mrs. Xu" in the love film "the back door".
In 1966, at the age of 58, she left her film career after making the love film "the woman in the tower".
Personal life
family background
Hu Die's father, Hu Shaogong, was originally from Heshan, Guangdong Province. He took his wife and daughter to work as a general inspector on the Beijing Fengshui railway. He also worked in the salt industry in Guangdong Province, and finally moved to Shanghai. "Heshan is my hometown!" In her memoirs, Hu Die expresses her feelings for her hometown. From Shanghai, Hong Kong to Canada, Hu Die always wanted to go back to her hometown. It is understood that Hu die only went back to his hometown once in his life. At that time, Hu die was less than 10 years old and left after living in his hometown for a few days. In 1975, when Hu Die settled in Canada, she always wanted to go home to Heshan. In her memoirs, she said, "Heshan is my hometown. My father would go back to his hometown to worship his ancestors on New Year's day. In 1984, Hu Di wrote a letter to her old colleagues, saying that she wanted to visit her hometown very much. But when she died in Canada in 1989, her wish did not come true.
Love
Hu Die got to know Lin xuehuai because of the film autumn fan resentment. On March 22, 1927, Hu die was engaged to Lin xuehuai. Before and after Hu Die finished making the film "songgirl red peony", their relationship gradually went wrong. At the end of 1931, the case of "diexue's termination" was solved, and her relationship with Lin xuehuai ended completely.
On November 23, 1935, after six years of Marathon love, Hu Die and pan Yousheng held their wedding ceremony in the Holy Trinity Church on Jiujiang Road, Shanghai.
Main works
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Award winning record
Character evaluation
Hu die is an easy-going girl with a deep and alert personality. Five out of ten are like Baochai, two out of ten are like Xiren, and one out of ten are like Qingwen. (comment on Zhang Henshui, Chinese Chapter novelist and representative writer of mandarin duck and Butterfly School)
Hu die has played many roles in her life, such as aunt, loving mother, teacher, actor, prostitute, rich lady and working woman. Her temperament is rich, elegant and refined. Her performance is gentle, honest, charming and elegant. She has been rated as "the queen of movies" by the audience for many times. She straddled the era of silent film and audio film, and became the best actor in China in the 1930s and 1940s. The real butterfly has gone away, but the butterfly in the silver sea is still dancing. She flies up and down, light and moving. (review of Qilu Evening News)
Hu die is a popular movie actor with her acting skills and beauty. The images left in the world make her immortal. Hu die is gentle and tender. She is gentle, tolerant and obedient to fate. She loves beauty, material and vanity. God gave her beauty, let her vanity easily harvest, the same, her beauty also brought her ordinary woman can not touch the suffering. At the same time, Hu die is optimistic, which makes her receptive. So she survived like a flexible reed, standing up in the wind and rain. She has a unique stubborn in her life. (Sohu Qingdao review)
Character controversy
The dancing event of "the beauty of China"
On the evening of September 18, 1931 (the seventh day of August in the year of Xinwei in the lunar calendar), the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast of China shelled the North Camp of the Northeast Army of China and attacked Shenyang, creating the "September 18" incident that shocked China and foreign countries. After the incident broke out, it was rumored that Zhang Xueliang, a feudal official in Northeast China and deputy commander in chief of the army, navy and air force, was dancing with Hu die at the six kingdoms hotel in Peking on the night of the incident. In the same year, Hu Die's star film company issued a statement on November 21 and 22 in the name of Hu Die in Shanghai's Shenbao for two consecutive days to refute rumors, which means that Ma Junwu's work is pure nonsense and there is no such thing at all.
"Hu die is occupied by Dai Li"
In 1942, Hu Die returned to the mainland from Hong Kong and her luggage was robbed. Dai Li takes the opportunity to find Hu Die's luggage and sends Yang Huimin, who is involved in the operation of Hu Die's family and has fled from Hong Kong, to prison to please and occupy Hu die.
Commemoration of later generations
In 1989, more than 60 people, led by Zhang Junxiang, chairman of Shanghai filmmakers Association, and Hu Die's friends and fans, attended the commemorative activity of Hu Die's film art held in Shanghai, screened her famous films, and held a seminar on Hu Die's film art.
In December 1995, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Chinese film, all units of the film system held ceremonious celebrations and awarded 20 actors the "film century Award", among which Hu die was listed.
In 1999, on the 10th anniversary of Hu Die's death, major film journals across the country published special pages to commemorate her.
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