4.周璇
Zhou Xuan was once the most popular actress in China's entertainment industry. She was born Su Pu in 1920 but was separated from her parents when she was very young and raised by adoptive parents. At the age of 13, she took Zhou Xuan as her stage name. Zhou had enormous success in her lifetime. By the time she died, she was one of China's highest paid entertainers. Her movie "Street Angel" was named one of the 10 classic Chinese films from the twentieth century. Zhou Xuan was also selected as China's most outstanding actress. She died of cephalitis in 1957.
如果說胡蝶是舊上海膠片里的精靈,那么周璇就是舊上海老唱片的最華美的音符。說到舊上海的紅顏沉香,周璇是一塊彌久真的香玉,就象她的名字子里有個寓意為玉石的“璇”一樣,她的一生,華麗而又沉重。
周璇兒時不幸,被幾經送養,七八歲時,被送進一個歌舞班,處次涉及文藝。1934年,上海《大晚報》舉辦“播音歌星競選”,周璇結果名列第二,電臺稱譽她的嗓子“如金笛沁入人心”,獲得了“金嗓子”的稱號,從此唱紅上海灘。
1937,周璇演唱的《何日君再來》,一時成為家喻戶曉的流行歌曲;1941年,周璇還在影片《馬路天使》中演唱了《四季歌》和《天涯歌女》,這兩首歌流傳至今,成為不朽的經典名曲。
“金嗓子”周璇不僅唱歌出眾,還在光影中呈現了她的風采,其中《馬路天使》是周璇的代表作品。據說抗戰勝利后,趙丹與周璇在上海相遇,問周璇這些年拍了些什么片子?周璇不無傷感地說:“不要提了,沒有一部是我喜歡的戲,我這一生中只有一部《馬路天使》……”
周璇的情感生活 坎坷,三次婚戀都以失敗而告終,正像她在歌曲里所唱的:天地蒼蒼,人海茫茫,知音的人兒在何方?叫人費思量……不瘋魔,不成活,在演藝圈無限風光的周璇卻 被診斷有精神疾病,1957年,她突發性腦炎被送進醫院,一代紅顏,就此離開了人世。但她的聲音,仍在今天生長不息。
3.胡蝶
Born in 1908, Hu Die was a film actress from the late 1920s to the 1960s. She had her most brilliant period in the 1930s and 1940s. She played the leading role in China's first sound film, "The Singsong Girl." She appealed to a broad audience and her starring roles broke box-office records. Hu was one of the few formally trained actresses. In 1924, she enrolled in the China Film School and began her meteoric rise to stardom. She was crowned China's first Film Queen in 1933 when she was 25. She moved to Canada in 1975 and died in 1989.
在一個小資如此盛行的年代,舊上海無疑是很多人的夢想家園。十里洋場上的那些燈紅酒綠、風花雪月,被壓縮進一張張發黃的膠片,把往昔的浮華和榮耀一直閃爍到今天,胡蝶就是那些膠片里最華麗的影象。
雖然在如今的上 海輔慶里,這個長大后改名為“胡蝶”的女孩,已漸漸陌生,但循著那股深刻入骨的味道,我們可以在70多年前風雨飄搖的舊上海找到那抹沉香。那時候她的名字 是這個城市的驕傲,也是這座城市的味道。舊上海傳奇女星胡蝶先后主演了百余部影片,成功地飾演了中國不同階層的各類女性形象,成為中國電影拓荒期和成長期 的同步人和見證人。
胡蝶加冕影后, 不僅受到影迷們的追捧,也為廣告商所青睞,做的廣告自然最多,以她的名字命名的商品也是不少,就連喜歡啟用國際巨星做宣傳的力士香皂,也請了胡蝶來做廣 告。在當時看來,胡蝶的形象非常符合中國民間傳統的美女標準。她除了臉若銀盤、明眸皓齒、膚如凝脂之外,雙頰上的一對酒窩更是她的招牌。這個以“梨渦美 人”揚名影壇的明星是那個時代中國男性的“夢中情人”。
1975年,胡 蝶赴加拿大定居,化名為潘寶娟。1989年4月23日,翩舞人間近百年的胡蝶在溫哥華因病與世長辭。她臨終前的最后一句話是:“胡蝶要飛走了!”胡蝶最終 蝶化而去,她那美麗的身影卻長留人間,一同留下的還有那剪不斷理還亂的前塵往事,胡蝶就這樣飛走了,在另一個世界里繼續翩翩起舞,最終化成了花兒的靈魂, 只留下那縷余香,仍執拗地鉆入我們的靈魂深處。
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