8.黎莉莉
Li Lili was born in Beijing in 1915 and moved to Shanghai in 1927, where she joined the China National Song and Dance Troupe. Soon, she turned to films, starring in "Loving Blood of the Volcano." She won fans with her fashionable and energetic image and earned the nickname Sweet Sister. From 1935 to 1937, she starred in eight more films and then joined China Film Studio in Chongqing. After starring in several more hits, Li went to the U.S. in 1946 to study acting at Catholic University in Washington, language and singing in New York, and make-up at the University of California. In 1955, she studied at Beijing Film Academy, and later taught in the acting department. Li was the last living movie star from the silent era when she died of a heart attack in Beijing in 2005 at the age of 90.
20世紀20年代以后,有名氣的美女大都在上海,這也使上海成了二十到四十年代中國最風情、最芬香的城市。在這團沉香交融的空氣中,走出了中國最后一位默片影星黎莉莉。
她原名錢蓁蓁,1915年6月2日出生于北京;1927年,她移居上海,父親送她進黎錦暉主辦的中華歌舞團學習歌舞,此團后改名為明月歌舞團。她隨團曾到過南洋一帶演出,由于她表演出色,與王人美、胡蝶被稱為歌舞三杰。黎錦暉也十分喜愛她,認她為干女兒,改姓黎。
1932 年,她主演了孫瑜導演的《火山情血》,隨后又出演了其他幾部影片。在這些影片中,她以活潑、健康、富有時代性的形象征服了觀眾,被公認為典型的“甜姐”, 頗受當時學生及青年人的歡迎。1935年至1937年,她在“聯華”主演了《狼山喋血記》、《人海遺珠》等八部影片。
抗日戰爭爆發后,她來到重慶,加入了中國電影制片廠,出演了很多轟動一時的影片。1946年,她到美國,在華盛頓天主教大學學習表演,到紐約學習語言和聲樂,到加利福尼亞大學暑期班進修化妝,還到好萊塢觀摩實習過,1947年回國。1955年她進入北京電影學院(微博)專修班學習,后留校任教,成為表演系教授。1991年,中國電影表演藝術學會為她頒發了“學會特別榮譽獎”。
2005年8月7日,這一位從默片時代就成名的女星揮手作別,享年91歲。有一段新聞導語這樣寫道,“中國上個世紀輝煌的三十年代電影的大門徹底關閉。”
7.上官云珠
Shangguan Yunzhu was born in 1920 in Jiangsu Province. In 1937, she and her family were forced to leave for Shanghai to escape from the chaos caused by war. There, she was admitted to a drama school. Shangguan made her first movie in the 1940s and began to distinguish herself in film circles. Many of her movies in the late 1940s became classics in China's movie history. She was famous for her films such as the Crow and the Sparrow and Spring River Flows East. Shangguan was harassed to death during the Cultural Revolution in 1968.
出生于江蘇的上官云珠到了19歲才開始了她真正意義上的人生,這一年,她幾經輾轉來到上海,在蒲石路(今長樂路)慶福里236弄18號擁擠的弄堂房子里,上官云珠開始了她上海灘十里洋場的美麗人生。
四十年代 初,上官云珠拍攝了她的電影處女作《玫瑰飄零》,開始在影壇上嶄露頭角。20世紀40年代后期。她在“左翼”文化運動領導的昆侖影業公司里所拍攝的許多進 步影片,如《一江春水向東流》、《麗人行》、《早春二月》、《萬家燈火》、《烏鴉與麻雀》等,后來都成為中國著名經典名片,上官云珠,這個舊上海十里洋場 洇染下走出來的女子,終于脫胎換骨,凝成一段冰清玉潔的沉香。
上官云珠的 女人香別有情趣,她眉眼俏麗,還有合乎江南人審美的精巧的小嘴,一幅典型的上海美女精明世故模樣,在那里面帶著一點風塵氣的冶艷和江南小家碧玉的本分,所 以她常被導演選中演上海的交際花,商人家庭的少奶奶,暴發戶張狂的妻子,在細細的畫眉下,她的眼睛,會表現出鋒利的刮胡刀一樣的刻薄。
但上官云珠的潔身自愛并沒有讓她逃脫歷史的捉弄,在“文化大革命”期間,上官云珠受到殘酷迫害,于1968年11月22日去世。
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