"Huang Liushuang is the first Chinese actress who appeared in Hollywood nearly 1 years ago. Her achievement is not inferior to any Chinese movie star today. She was given a star in the walk of fame.
So far, she is the only Chinese actress with a name on the Avenue of Stars. Anna May Wong is a legend of eternal beauty in Hollywood. Her oriental elegance and quietness have been praised as "the most important Chinese American movie star in the 2th century" by the National Portrait
Gallery. Even after many years of retirement, no Asian actress has achieved as much in Hollywood as Huang Liushuang.
Huang Liushuang is the third generation of Chinese immigrants to the United States.
Huang Liushuang
Active years 1919-1961
Honorary Doctor of Peking University (1932)
His family made a living by running a laundry. Huang Liushuang has eight brothers, and she is the second child. In her primary school years, it was the beginning of the production of Hollywood film < P >. Watching movies became a fashionable thing for people. Little Huang Liushuang sisters were immediately attracted by movies. Huang Liushuang often sneaked into the theater in cut class, and was sick 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 the theme of filming, so they often went to China City for location, and often recruited Chinese extras from local materials.
One day, a film called "Red Lantern" happened to be on location in China City. Naji Muwa, the first red star at that time, played a mixed-race Eurasian
child. The plot needed oriental faces to match. Huang Liushuang, who was only 14 years old, volunteered to play the role of a walk-on and entered the road of stars in 1919.
In her film career of more than 4 years, Huang Liushuang * * * has made more than 5 films. She is also the first Chinese to enter Hollywood.
In that environment full of racial discrimination, she has to bear the strong opposition of her family and go straight to the top in Hollywood waters like sharks. Without two brushes, it would have been like "The Floating of the Stars".
From the silent film to the natural color, it gradually pushed her to the status of a world-class star, and she became an oriental red star to the letter. When
, Huang Liushuang's traces and trends appeared in film magazines in North America, Europe, Australia, South America, Southeast Asia, China and Japan.
In p>1928, accompanied by her sister Lulu, she went to Europe. During her three years in Europe, Huang Liushuang first made a German film called SONG
. It also brought a whirlwind in Europe, from Britain to the Netherlands, from Spain to Italy, from Hungary to Romania, and so on, all grabbed her report. Edward Steinchin, a famous German photographer, also published Huang Liushuang's photo album in Vanity Fair magazine, which was distributed worldwide in France and was also available in the French Concession in 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 again. People in France were already interested in China's silk, porcelain and architecture. This time, a Chinese porn star with a variety of flesh and blood came, which made the French audience adore her.
Huang Liushuang soon came to the British Isles, where she participated in the filming of Piccadilly, a film directed by German film director DuPont. She especially loved London and deeply felt people's concern and friendliness towards her. Her elegant demeanor and charm not only fascinated the reporters who came to interview her, but even the ordinary fans scrambled to see her true colors because of her mysterious attraction.
The huge posters of "Pi" are hung in cinemas, restaurants, dance halls and theaters in London. At the same time, the posters also appear in Asia and can be seen in Shanghai. Huang Liushuang's trip to Europe really caused a series of "Oriental effects", and everywhere he went, he was sensational.
In the early 193s, 25-year-old Huang Liushuang returned to the United States from Europe, and the film contract immediately flew in like a snowflake. Just before she went through the customs formalities,
the film dealers had prepared the contract and were waiting at the customs gate with prepaid remuneration. After landing in new york, she first performed 167 plays on Broadway, and then made a movie, which also caused a sensation. Huang Liushuang's film industry < P > is in full swing at the moment, and its leap on the peak lasts for a long time.
This little girl loves her country and her hometown. In the spring of 1936, she finally set foot on the land of her mother country-Shanghai. Before the ship landed
, a group of reporters took the sampan to visit first. When she cleared the customs, she unhurriedly put on various pose and let the reporters hunt for the camera. And the reporters from Los Angeles who came with her also included the pictures one by one in the camera for publication in the
Los Angeles Hurst Times after returning to the United States. In addition to the Shanghai film industry, Huang Liushuang was welcomed by the international authority Ambassador Gu Weijun and his wife, Dr. Lin Yutang and other celebrities. During her stay in Shanghai, she enjoyed the scenery of "Paris in the East" and had dinner with Mei Lanfang, a master of Chinese opera. At that time, Liangyou Pictorial also made a series of reports on her.
Huang Liushuang has repeatedly emphasized her longing and admiration for the culture of her mother country, and from time to time, she can catch on with Dr. Lin Yutang's My Country and My People published in the United States. On the other hand, however, the "paparazzi" in Shanghai made a mean personal attack on her previous performance in Hollywood that hurt the image of Chinese people. Huang Liushuang made a positive defense of this, claiming that if she didn't take the film, < P > would be played by a white actor, but there would be no chance to maintain the image of Chinese people at least. Some tabloids have made hype about her being unmarried and having no boyfriend. When Huang Liushuang first arrived in Shanghai, although the media reports were quite negative, Huang Liushuang was able to answer patiently and solve the problem. Even those reporters who were particularly difficult asked for her autographed photo after the interview. On the other hand, she can be entertained by Mei Lanfang, a master of Chinese opera, and at the same time, she goes in and out with Hu
Butterfly, which is popular all over the country. This
Huang Liushuang
has also greatly changed the attitude of Chinese people towards her.
In addition to Shanghai, Huang Liushuang also petitioned Beijing. When she passed Nanjing, she became an official guest of the National Government. When she went north, she also went to Mazu Tempel in Tianjin and climbed Mount Tai in Shandong. At that time, "Beiyang Pictorial" also published her trace in a large scale. For Huang Liushuang himself, it is really a cultural "root-seeking journey". Huang Liushuang, who stayed in China for nine months, returned to the United States in the same year, and decided to stay in Los Angeles for a long time in order to maintain relations with Hollywood.
In the movie "Hollywood Party", she is opposite to clark gable. In the film, Huang Liushuang skillfully uses her graceful figure to show off the cheongsam she just brought back from China one by one, and at the same time, there are many dialogues to enhance the image of China people.
During the 193s, Nobel Prize in Literature's masterpiece The Good Earth, written by Pearl Buck, was also adapted and made into a film, which fairly described the kindness and simplicity of farmers in China, thus changing the prejudice against Chinese in American society for many years. Later, Huang Liushuang and Pearl Buck cooperated with each other in public welfare undertakings. In postwar Huang Liushuang, as the years passed, the film contract was not as good as before. At one time, she also devoted herself to the beauty industry and became the spokesperson of "China Health and Beauty". She told her clients to look at the goldfish kept at home, because it could increase the eye movement.
Huang Liushuang, who had been in film for almost five years, finally came to the door again in 1949 to make a new film for her. In addition,
there was a TV company that produced the album "Mrs. Liu Shuang's Gallery" for her, but it didn't last long, and she couldn't make any gains in the new media darling-TV. When people reach middle age, their physical strength and emotions are not as good as before. When Huang Liushuang is not
, she tells others about her past elegance on the set, but she is also dissatisfied that Hollywood always asks her to play the role of "bad woman" in the East. Huang Liushuang likes to study Carnegie's Positive Thinking. In the late stage of her acting career, there were no
washed-up stars like Hollywood who went to self-destruction, especially in private financial management, which did not make her fall into a predicament.
Although she is not particularly rich (she still owns several properties), she definitely doesn't need help from others. Besides, she can bring up her siblings. In the 196s, Huang Liushuang was invited to perform in the filming of "Flower Drum Song" and "Su Si Huang's World". Just as she was returning to the film industry, on the afternoon of February 2, 1961, Huang Liushuang died suddenly of a heart attack. After his death, he was buried next to his mother's grave in Los Angeles, and there was not a word engraved on the tombstone.