Yang Naimei

Yang Naimei

Yang Naimei (1904-1960) made her own film company and starred in the film strange woman. The title of the film can describe Yang Naimei herself. In the 1920s, domestic films were just in their infancy, and it was quite new for people to see women playing roles on the screen. Star film company was born, China's first group of female stars, known as the "four King Kong", Yang Naimei is one of them, a legendary life.

Profile

Early Chinese movie star, formerly known as Yang Lizhu. Born in Shanghai in 1904. Her father is a rich businessman, Yang Naimei was spoiled since childhood, very wayward. When she was studying in Shanghai Wuben girls' middle school, she became interested in stage plays. She often went to see performances and met Zheng Zhengqiu. In 1923, the star film company was preparing to make "the soul of jade pear", but it couldn't find a suitable heroine. Yang Naimei's appearance, temperament and role were very similar, so Zheng Zhengqiu recommended her as the heroine, and Yang Naimei wanted to enter the film industry, so she became the heroine of the film. After the release of the film, it was very popular. She performed the dissolute and romantic socialite in the film incisively and vividly without any affectation. Soon after, she starred in "Camellia girl" and then filmed "induced marriage". These three films seem to position her as a dissolute female role, so she is opposed by her family, but Yang Naimei insists on her own way. Since then, her acting career has been booming. She has starred in many films, such as "empty valley orchid", "beauty pass", "good brother" and "horse cart". On the way to play, she is no longer limited to playing negative roles, creating many positive female images, such as the heroine Wenjing and Xianshu in a spring dream by the lake, and the Russian girl who resists the rule of the Czar in resurrection of conscience. Her acting skills were superb, her voice and appearance were good. She was sociable and dressed strangely. She became the focus of attention at that time. Later, she raised money to set up Naimei film company and became the heroine of the company's first film "strange woman" (1928). After the film was released, the repercussions were good. However, Yang Naimei became addicted to gambling and drug abuse, and her family property was squandered, so she went south with the great Chinese theater company When she retired from the troupe and wanted to return to the screen, the soundtrack had replaced the silent one, so her local accent could not meet the needs of the screen. A generation of romantic porn stars lived in the streets of Hong Kong and disappeared. They died in Taipei in 1960.

Personality characteristics

Although Yang Naimei, who has always been pampered, was wronged because of Zhang Shichuan's harshness during the shooting process, there was a strong response after the release of "the soul of jade pear". Yang Naimei made her debut in the film industry, and even more conspicuous in social places. She has always hoped to show the fashionable and beautiful pictures in her life on the screen, so that more people will be fascinated by them. However, it backfired. The second role assigned by the star company is the vicious and ugly landlady in the film "poor children and weak women", a full villain. Yang Naimei's boss is not happy, but in order to be a big star, she reluctantly agrees. When the film was released, the company publicized it, but Yang Naimei was so angry that she didn't even want a 300 yuan reward. She invited her company to dinner. The company should also take care of Yang Naimei's mood for the stars she holds. The next script, induced marriage, is tailor-made for her. Finally, she can play the heroine, a modern girl surrounded by her pursuers. This is just what Yang Naimei wants. In order to play the role that is most suitable for her, she takes a large suitcase of clothes to the studio every day, and her hair is often permed in different patterns. In some emotional plays, she also learns the expressions of foreign stars and shows her seductive eyes. The release of "marriage inducement" really caused a sensation because of its bold performance, and Yang Naimei became the first female star in the history of Chinese film who was famous for her debauchery. Just as she was surrounded by fans and the media, she was excited and dizzy, but her father poured cold water on her head. Because my father would never allow my baby daughter to give up her great future and "degenerate into an actor", my mother has been helping and persuading her since the earliest shooting of "the soul of jade pear". With the release of "induced marriage", my father is even more furious with Yang Naimei's so-called romantic woman and orders her not to act any more. Seeing the star dream that has just come true, how could Yang Naimei give up halfway and run away from home in frustration.

Breaking away from family constraints, Yang Naimei became more and more indulgent. Besides making movies, she also mixed up in social places. During this period, she successively shot "good brother", "new family", "empty valley orchid" and so on. Resurrection of conscience has made great changes on the basis of the adaptation of Tolstoy's novel resurrection. The story is full of twists and turns. In addition, the film has made a great deal of headlines in Shanghai. It turns out that Yang Naimei is not only in the limelight on the screen, but also in the cinema. With the careful design and preparation of star companies and cinemas, the audience ushered in an unprecedented viewing experience. When the movie's Yang Naimei hummed a lullaby to lull her to sleep, the screen suddenly rose, and the scene of the play was completely copied on the stage. The real Yang Naimei came on stage in the same way as in the play, and with the accompaniment of the live band, she began to sing the "Nanny song". It's exciting for the audience to have such close contact with the stars in the cinema!

Star Road

Student days

In Wuben girls' middle school in Nanshi, Shanghai, Yang Naimei, who is in the secondary class of the middle school, is a very active literary and artistic backbone. She is good at speech, singing, dancing and acting. She is also charming. She is not only a famous "school flower" but also a "celebrity" in the social circle.

Yang Naimei's father was a giant of Guangdong business. She came to Shanghai to set up pigment, real estate and other enterprises and became famous in Shanghai. Her father sent Yang Naimei into the strict business oriented women's middle school. He expected her to concentrate on her studies and send her abroad for further study after graduation. Parents regard the only daughter as the apple of their eye, doting, Yang Naimei developed arrogant luxury arbitrary temper since childhood.

Enter the society

After graduating from the girls' middle school, there was no school rules or teacher's restriction any more. Yang Naimei gradually indulged. She was keen to socialize, liked to be in the limelight, frequently went to the dance hall, invited her classmates to dinner, watched foreign movies, and dressed up novel and fashionable. Because her parents like to watch "civilized drama", Yang Naimei has been influenced since childhood. At that time, the civilization drama and some short films shot by Zhang Shichuan were just like traditional drama, in which the female roles were played by male Dan and put on airs. Yang Naimei was very disdainful and thought that if she appeared on the stage, she would be 100 times better.

But Zhang nailuo is not in the mind of studying abroad for her father. Yang Naimei, who is in the audience, was deeply attracted by the female star Wang Hanlun when the star company's "the orphan saves her ancestors" was released. After the show, she got on her own car and went to the star company. She was going to play "volunteer".

At that time, Zheng Zhengqiu just signed a contract with Wang Hanlun for the next film "the soul of jade pear". The script was adapted from Xu Zhenya, a novelist of the "mandarin duck and Butterfly School", who sold more than 100000 copies of the same name parallel style classical Chinese novel. There are female stars, but Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhang Shichuan of the star company are struggling to find a suitable person to play supporting actress Yunqian, who is a rich daughter, beautiful and slightly arrogant. Just at this time, Yang Naimei knocked on the office of the star company. Looking at her appearance and behavior, listening to her introduction and her urgent desire to make a movie, Zheng Zhengqiu has already quite recognized this young lady as Yun Qian. After two days, the star company had news and asked Yang Naimei to sign a contract. She was so excited that she seemed to have the aura of a big star at hand.

personal works

Tea picking girl (1924)

Bitter son and weak girl (1924)

Induced marriage (1924)

Soul of jade pear (1924)

Good brother (1924)

The new family (1925)

Orchid in the empty valley (Part I and part II) (1925)

Three women in Shanghai (1925)

Resurrection of conscience (1926)

Her pain (1926)

Roses bloom everywhere in April (1926)

Yang Guifei in Beijing (1927)

President of Huaguo (1927)

Spring dream by the lake (1927)

Chivalrous Phoenix (1927)

Amorous brother (1928)

Beauty pass (1928)

Strange woman (1928)

Little grandma's fan (1928)

Spring in the song field (1931)

The last love (1931)

Miss Shanghai, Han Xiuwen (1932)

Spring breeze and willows (1933)

Anecdotes of characters

a romantic affair

Yang Naimei got to know Wang Jiting in Xiaokai when she was filming "marriage inducement". After leaving home, Wang Jiting lent her two empty rooms in a foreign house in the French concession, and soon they went in and out together. When shooting "empty valley orchid", she had a close relationship with Zhu Fei, the male leading actor. Zhu Fei was born into a romantic life. Because of "empty valley orchid", they became famous at one stroke. They often haunted places where they were addicted to money. This man has been entangled in her life like a colorful soap bubble ever since. At the time of no play shooting, Yang Naimei is not idle. She always makes lacy news and never lets herself be forgotten quietly. At the same time, rumors spread all over the place with her love affair. Yang Naimei, who had moved home, was once again expelled from her home by her angry father. This time, she was still not sad and nostalgic, but changed her residence and lived with Zhu Fei.

Bu wancang's "a spring dream by the lake" starring Yang Naimei and Gong Jianong, was filmed on the West Lake in Hangzhou. The male and female protagonists fell in love with each other in the beautiful scenery of heaven

Chinese PinYin : Yang Nai Mei