"Huang Liushuang was the first China actress who appeared in Hollywood about 100 years ago. Her achievement is no less than that of any China movie star today. She won a star on the Avenue of Stars.
So far, the only China actress named on the Avenue of Stars. Huang Liushuang is a legend of eternal beauty in Hollywood. Her oriental elegance and serenity were praised by National Portrait.
The gallery is known as "the most important Chinese American movie star in the 20th century". Even after many years of retirement, no Asian actress has achieved as much in Hollywood as Huang Liushuang.
Huang Liushuang is the third generation Chinese who immigrated to the United States.
Anna May Wong
Active years 19 19 to 196 1 year.
Awarded Peking University an honorary doctor (1932)
The family makes a living by running a laundry. Huang Liushuang has eight brothers, and she is the second. In her primary school days, it was a Hollywood movie.
At the beginning of production, watching movies became a fashionable thing for people. Little Huang Liushuang sisters were immediately attracted by the film. Huang Liushuang often skipped classes and sneaked into the theater. He was ill to save money for lunch and meals.
At that time, in Hollywood in the silent film era, stories that satirized orientals or vilified Chinese were often taken as shooting subjects, so they often went to the location of China City and often used local materials to recruit Chinese extras.
One day, a movie called "Hanging the Red Lantern High" happened to be on the location of China City. At that time, Naji Muwa, the first red star, played a Eurasian mixed-race.
Son, the story needs oriental faces to match. Huang Liushuang, who was only 14 years old, rolled around the corner of a walk-on under her own recommendation, and then stepped into the star road of 1, 9 19.
In her film career of more than 40 years, Huang Liushuang has made more than 50 films. She was also the first China to enter Hollywood.
In that environment full of racial discrimination, at the same time, I have to bear the strong opposition of my family and go straight to the top of Hollywood waters like a shark for a long time. If I didn't have two brushes, I would have disappeared like "The Floating Stars".
From silent film to true colors, it gradually pushed her to the status of a world-class star and became an out-and-out oriental red star. while
At that time, traces and trends of Huang Liushuang appeared in movies and magazines in North America, Europe, Australia, South America, Southeast Asia, China and Japan.
1928, accompanied by her sister Lulu, she went to Europe. During my three years in Europe, I made a German film called Song for the first time.
Movies. This also caused a whirlwind in Europe, from Britain to the Netherlands, from Spain to Italy, from Hungary to Romania, and so on, all rushed to report on her. Edward Steinchin, a famous German photographer, also published a collection of Huang Liushuang's photographs in Vanity Fair magazine, which was distributed all over the world in France and sold in the French Concession that year.
The enthusiastic response of European fans to her has also made high-end magazines in the United States reserve pages for her. Soon, Huang Liushuang set foot in France, France.
People have always been interested in China's silk, porcelain and architecture. This time, a flesh-and-blood China porn star came, which made the French audience adore her.
Soon, Huang Liushuang came to the British Isles, where she participated in the filming of Piccadilly Circus directed by German film director DuPont. She loves London very much and deeply feels people's concern and friendship for her. Her style and charm not only fascinated reporters who came to interview, but also attracted fans.
Mysterious attraction, and scrambling to see her true colors.
The huge posters of Pi are hung in cinemas, restaurants, dance halls and theaters in London, and the posters also appear in Asia.
You can also see the sea. Huang Liushuang's trip to Europe really caused a series of "oriental effects", and everywhere he went, it was a sensation.
In the early 1930s, 25-year-old Huang Liushuang returned to the United States from Europe. Just before she went through the immigration formalities, the film contract flew like a snowflake.
Previously, the filmmakers had prepared the contract and waited at the gate with the advance payment. After landing in new york, she first staged 167 stage plays on Broadway, and then made a movie, which also caused a sensation. The film industry in Huang Liushuang at present.
The industry is in full swing, jumping on the peak and enduring.
The little girl loves her country and her hometown. /kloc-in the spring of 0/936, she finally set foot on the land of the motherland-Shanghai. When the ship hasn't landed yet.
Before, a group of reporters sat on the sampan and went to visit first. When she passed the customs, she took her time to pose for reporters to look for the camera. The Los Angeles reporter who came with her also included the pictures one by one in the camera in case she returned to the United States.
Published by the Hearst Times in Los Angeles. In addition to the Shanghai film industry, Huang Liushuang was welcomed by international authoritative ambassador Gu Weijun and his wife Dr. Lin Yutang and other celebrities. During her stay in Shanghai, she enjoyed the "Orient".
Paris "scenery, and had dinner with China opera master Mei Lanfang. At that time, Liangyou Pictorial also made a series of reports on her.
Huang Liushuang emphasized her yearning and admiration for the motherland's culture several times, and from time to time she could read My Country and My People published by Dr. Lin Yutang in the United States. On the other hand, however, the "paparazzi" in Shanghai made bitter personal attacks on her previous performance in Hollywood, which hurt the image of China people. Huang Liushuang actively defended this, claiming that if she didn't receive the film,
It is bound to be played by white actors, but there is no chance to maintain the minimum image of Chinese. Some tabloids hyped that she was unmarried and had no boyfriend. When Huang Liushuang first arrived in Shanghai, although the media reports were quite negative.
In the face, Huang Liushuang answered patiently, and it was solved. Even those reporters who were particularly difficult wanted her autographed photo after the visit. On the other hand, she can entertain with Mei Lanfang, a master of China opera, and be with Hu, who is popular all over the country.
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It also greatly changed the attitude of Chinese people towards her.
Besides Shanghai, Huang Liushuang also petitioned Beijing. When she passed Nanjing, she became an official guest of the National Government. When she went to the north, she also went to Mazu Tempel in Tianjin and climbed Mount Tai in Shandong. At that time, Beiyang Pictorial also published a lot of traces of her. For Huang Liushuang himself, this is indeed a cultural "root-seeking journey". Huang Liushuang stayed in China for nine months and returned to the United States in the same year. In order to maintain his relationship with Hollywood, he decided to stay in Los Angeles for a long time.
In the movie "Hollywood Party", she played opposite clark gable, and Huang Liushuang skillfully used her graceful figure in the film.
The cheongsam she just brought back from China is shown in the film, and there are many dialogues to enhance the image of China people.
During the 1930s, Pearl Buck's Nobel Prize in Literature masterpiece The Good Earth was also adapted and made into a film, which fairly described the kindness and simplicity of farmers in China, thus changing the prejudice of American society against Chinese people for many years. Later, Huang Liushuang and Pearl Buck cooperated with each other in public welfare undertakings. In postwar Huang Liushuang, with the passage of time, film contracts are not as good as before. She once joined the beauty industry and became the spokesperson of "China Health Beauty". She told her clients to look at the goldfish kept at home because it can increase eye movement.
Huang Liushuang, who stayed in the cinema for almost five years, finally came to the door again at 1949 and made a new film for her. In addition,
Another TV company produced the album "Mrs. Liu Shuang's Gallery" for her, but it didn't last long, and she didn't get anything on the new media darling-TV. When people reach middle age, they are worse physically and emotionally than before. Huang Liushuang didn't.
At the same time, she told others about her past style on the set, and she was not satisfied that Hollywood always let her play the role of "bad woman" in the East. Huang Liushuang likes to study Carnegie's positive thinking, but she didn't do it later in her acting career.
Like Hollywood stars who have been out of fashion, the road of self-destruction, especially in private finance, has not left her in poverty.
Although she is not particularly rich (she also owns several properties), she definitely doesn't need help from others. Not only that, she can also raise her brothers and sisters. In 1960s, Huang Liushuang was invited to take part in the filming of Flower Drum Song and Su Sihuang's World. On the afternoon of February 2, Huang Liushuang died of a heart attack. He died and was buried next to his mother's grave in Los Angeles. There was not a word engraved on the tombstone.