Ruan, an early movie star in China, was originally named Ruan Fenggen, and his scientific name was Ruan. Born in Zhongshan County, Guangdong Province, 19 10 was born in Shanghai. Because the worker's father died young, he worked as a domestic servant with his mother when he was a child. Mother scrimped and saved, and let her go to school to attend Chongde Girls' Middle School in Shanghai. 1926, in order to support his mother by his own efforts, he was admitted to Shanghai Star Film Company and starred in his debut film "Nominal Couple", from which he entered the film industry.

Since then, he has appeared in nearly 20 films in "Star" and "Greater China Lily" companies, playing a girl who has suffered many misfortunes in love and marriage or a charming and provocative romantic woman. 1930, she entered Lianhua Film Company, starring in the company's pioneering work "Dream of Spring in the Old Capital", and successfully played the prostitute Yan Yan, which established her position in the film industry.

Since then, she has starred in a series of films, such as Weeds and Flowers, Modern Three Girls, Gadgets, Night in the City, Life, Coming Back, Farewell to Shanghai, Xiangxue, Goddess, New Woman and National Style.

In these images, there are women workers, village women, teachers, dancers, prostitutes, artists, writers and so on. Most characters have tragic life experiences, bumpy experiences and repeated hardships. Although they all ended in suicide, becoming a monk, imprisonment and tragic death, they all maintained their kind and upright nature and pure and beautiful hearts. Among them, Goddess is the most representative work. With her superb acting skills, she miraculously combined a noble mother with a humble prostitute, which was superb and shocking.

Ruan is dignified and generous, beautiful and refined. She is conscientious and devoted all her enthusiasm and unremitting pursuit to the performing arts. In the performance, she can accurately understand the emotions of the characters, capture the feelings of the characters, and accurately show them with appropriate eyes, expressions and movements. This precise inner induction combined with physical expression is very natural, which shows her outstanding talent and extraordinary skill.

Wu Yonggang, the director of Goddess, used the metaphor of "the fastest sensitive film" to give her a high evaluation. In 1930s in China, she became an actress that the director was willing to cooperate with because of the least number of remakes. In order to make the audience "see every movie" and become the actor with the most box office appeal.

Her performance was brilliant and radiant, reaching the highest level of performance art in China's silent film period and winning the heartfelt admiration of the audience.

However, this outstanding actress's married life is very unfortunate. 1935, the feudal evil forces used the marriage lawsuit about her to make a big fuss, spread rumors and slander, and poured buckets of dirty water on her. She couldn't bear to be humiliated, leaving "terrible words" and committing suicide by taking medicine at the age of 25.

Chronology of works:

Guofeng (1935)

Xiang Xuehai (1934)

Goddess (1934)

New women (1934)

Life (1934)( 1934)

Return (1934)

Goodbye, Shanghai (1934)

City Night (1933)

Gadgets (1933)

Continuation of the Spring Dream of the Old Capital (1932)

Three modern women (1932)

Love and obligation (193 1)

Dried plums (193 1)

Peach Bloodshed (193 1)

Yutangchun (193 1)

Dream of Old Capital (1930)

Weed flower (1930)

Burning Jiulong Mountain (1930)

Suicide contract (1930)

Pearl Crown (1929)

Treasure of Desire (1929)

Gu Hong after the robbery (1929)

Jiulongshan Mountain in Dabo (1929)

Flower of the Screen (1929)

Cai Zhuangyuan built Luoyang Bridge (1928)

Baiyun Mansion (Part I) (1928)

Baiyun Mansion (Part II) (1928)

Nominal couple (1927)

Monument to blood and tears (1927)

Yang Xiaozhen (1927)

Beijing Yang Guifei (1927)

Ruan's suicide note:

I don't know my career until I die. Now that I'm dead, I can do whatever he wants at any time. Although you don't kill Boren, Boren will be killed by you. Zhang Damin, I don't see how you can escape public opinion. Now you can't falsely accuse Tang Jishan, because you killed me! When I die now, people will think that I am afraid of sin. What am I afraid of? Because I have nothing to do with Zhang Damin who doesn't live there, let's call it a day. When I lived separately from him, I gave him 100 yuan every month. This is not empty talk, but there are credentials and receipts. However, he bites the hand that feeds him with injustice, and what is even more unknown to the outside world is that he thinks I can't live with him. Alas! What can I do? I thought and thought, but I died. Alas! I'm embarrassed to die, but I'm still afraid of people saying that what they say is terrible.

Ruan's last words

On the afternoon of March 7, 2004.

Open classification:

Actors and characters

References:

1. Ruan, 19 10 was born in Shanghai, with original name Ruan Fenggen and scientific name Ruan, an early movie star in China. She was born in a working family. Because her father died prematurely, she worked as a maid with her mother since childhood to make a living. Later, she entered a school and became fascinated with the performing arts. She showed her acting skills for the first time by performing on the stage in the activities organized by the school.

Ruan became more and more beautiful with her age, and she was attracted by her employer's youngest son. However, Zhang Damin's mother didn't hold the wedding, because she thought it was wrong to go to the wrong place. 1926, they began to live together. Ruan adopted an abandoned girl named Zhang Miaorong, nicknamed Xiaoyu. Later, he became addicted to gambling, which made Ruan very uneasy.

3. 1926 Ruan was selected by the director to shoot her first film "Nominal Couple", which received rave reviews after its release. Since then, she has made several films with low style, and her talents are hard to show.

4. 1929 She left the star film company and entered the Greater China Lily Film Company, where she made three films. Later, Greater China Lily Film Company merged with three other companies to form Lianhua Film Company, and Ruan became the basic actor of Lianhua. She starred in Lianhua's first film, Dream of the Old Capital, which was released on 1930 and was well received by the audience. In the same year, she became the heroine of Weeds and Flowers, which made Ruan famous. Later, she starred in three modern girls, A Night in the City, Gadgets, Goddess, New Women and many other films. Her acting skills are superb. In the silent film era, she accurately used expressions and movements to express the characters' personality and language. Entering the period of talking movies, she can quickly understand the director's intention and enter the role. She plays different types of roles, including innocent girls, prostitutes who are forced by life to sell their bodies, and intellectual women who pursue a new life. She vividly portrayed the characters and moved the audience. Her charm conquered the audience. Her success in career did not bring happiness to her family life. When there was a rift between her and Zhang Damin, a businessman who often played with women tricked her into taking the bait. After her divorce from Zhang Damin, she moved in with that businessman. Later, two men filed a lawsuit and caused an uproar in the city. In addition, Ruan was slandered and attacked by the newspaper at that time, which made her unbearable and forced her to commit suicide by taking poison on March 8. 1935. She is only 25 years old.

Ruan's short life left 29 films for later generations. She is an outstanding performing artist in the film history of China.