Linda Lin Dai

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linda Lin Dai in the SW- flick Golden Lotus - 金蓮花 , 1957

Linda Lin Dai ( Chinese  林黛 , Pinyin Lín Dài , Jyutping Lam 4 Doi 6 ; * as Chéng Yuèrú - 程 月 如 on December 26, 1934 in Nanning , Guangxi ; † on July 17, 1964 in Hong Kong ) was a Chinese - American actress . She received the award as Best Actress four times at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival for the films The Golden Lotus , Diau Charn , Les Belles and Love Without End .

family

Lin Dai was born in 1934 as Cheng Yueru daughter of the politician ( 程思遠 , 1908-2005) during the time of the Chinese Republic . Lin Dai's father and mother Jiang Xiuhua ( 蔣秀華 ) married in 1933, after their father became secretary of the Kuomintang under the Chinese warlord Li Zongren during the Chinese Civil War in 1930 . That marriage broke up in 1940 and six-year-old Yueru - aka Linda - lived on with her mother in Guilin . With the beginning of the Japanese invasion of China, the mother worried about the safety and future of her daughter and eventually sent her to Chungking to live with her father. After the Second World War in 1945, she moved with her father to live with relatives in Nanking and went to school there. In 1948, while she was still in school, Lin Dai encouraged her father to remarry with 19-year-old Shí Hóng ( 石 泓 ) and as a result she had two sisters and a brother as half siblings. The sister now lives in the USA and the brother continues to live in Hong Kong. Lin, Dai ( 林黛 ) her Chinese artistic pseudonym as an actress is ultimately a homophonic phonetic translation of her English first name Linda.

Life

HK Movie Star Linda Lin Dai Lace Qipao clothes in deep green.JPG
Lin Dai's original Qipao 1 - 旗袍 , Hong Kong Film Archive 2009
HK Movie Star Linda Lin Dai Jade.JPG
Lin Dais Jade Bangle - 玉鐲 , 2009
The Grave of Lin Dai.JPG
Lin Dai 's grave in St Michael's Cemetry , Hong Kong 2006

Linda Lin Dai's childhood was marked by political unrest and instability in post- feudal China . In 1949, under the impression of Mao Zedong's seizure of power , her family fled to Hong Kong in what was then the British Crown Colony . In 1950, she went to the New Asia College A - now part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong - to the school and was a columnist for the Chinese newspaper Zhengwu Bao B . Acting agents in the film industry became aware of her after a photograph by the well-known local photographer Zong Weigeng ( 宗 維 賡 ). In 1951 she was first contract actress left production company Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd . Aka Lin Dai - - there Cheng Yueru received her first acting lessons from Yuan Yang'an , director of Great Wall Movie Enterprises C . However, due to the political background of her family, she was not given a role in the film productions. Her first camera appearance had 1,952 according to joining Yung Hwa film D . She played the female lead in Singing Under The Moon . With this film she became famous in a flash and worked as a freelance actress from 1953. As the bone of contention between Cathay Studio E - later MP & GI - and Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong, it was heavily courted by both studios. In 1957 she received the title Movie Queen or Best Actress of the Asian Film Festival for her appearance in Golden Lotus - a film adaptation of the Chinese classic novel Jin Ping Mei . The next year she played the role of Diaochan in the film Diau Charn . In 1961 and 1962 she was again named "Best Actress" for her films Les Belles and Love Without End .

In addition to her acting career, Lin Dai studied acting and linguistics at New York's Columbia University . There she met Long Shenxun, the fifth son of former KMT - Warlord and later a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Long Yun , whom she in on February 12, 1961 Kowloon married, Hong Kong. In December 1961 she became the godmother of the then famous child actress Petrina Fung Bobo ( 馮 寶寶 ). Their son Long Zonghan was born on April 3, 1963 in New York , United States .

Linda Lin Dai had made several suicide attempts before she died. On July 17, 1964, Lin Dai committed suicide after a long argument with her husband. She was buried in St. Michael's Cemetery in Happy Valley on Hong Kong Island .

annotation
A. New Asia College, NA for short - 新 亞 書院
B. Zhengwu Bao , literally "lunch newspaper " - 正午 報
C. Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd - 長城 影業 公司
D. Yung Hwa Motion Picture Industries Ltd - 永華 影業 公司
E. Cathay Studios, restructured in 1957 as Motion Picture & General Investment Co. Ltd, MP & GI for short - 國際 電影 懋 業 有限公司 , 電 懋 for short , renamed Cathay Organization Hong Kong in 1965
1 Original Qipao - 旗袍 from Love Without End - 不了 情 , 1961

Filmography (selection)

  • 1953: Singing Under The Moon ( Cui Cui )
  • 1957: Golden Lotus ( Jin Lian Hua )
  • 1958: Scarlett Doll ( Hong Wa )
  • 1958: Diau Charn ( Diao Chan )
  • 1961: Les Belles ( Qian Jiao Bai Mei )
  • 1961: Love Without End ( Bu Liao Qing )
  • 1962: Madame White Snake ( Bai She Zhuan )
  • 1966: Blue and Black ( Lan Yu Hei )

Source: Hong Kong Movie Database

literature

alphabetically ascending

  • Diana Lary: China's Civil War. (=  New Approaches to Asian History . No. 13 ). 1st edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , United Kingdom 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7 , pp. 165–166 , The PLA enters Beiping - Biographies, Lin Dai (English, full text in the Google book search).
  • Lisa Odham Stokes: Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. (=  Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts . No. 2 ). 2nd Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham (Maryland) , USA 2020, ISBN 978-1-5381-2062-0 , pp. 304 , Dictionary - Lin, Linda Dai (1934–1964) (English, full text in the Google book search - With contributions by Jean Lukitsh, Michael Hoover, Tyler Stokes).

Web links

Commons : Linda Lin Dai  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 林黛 ♀ - Linda Lin Dai, Lam Doi, Lin Dai (1). In: www.hkmdb.com. January 1, 1999, accessed on August 5, 2020 (Chinese, English, short biography in English).
  2. ↑ a b A Short Biography of Linda Lin Dai ( Memento of March 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: www.geocities.com, accessed August 5, 2020 (Chinese, English)
  3. ↑ Hong Kong Goverment: Press Releases - HK Film Archive showcases legend and beauty of superstar Lin Dai (with photos). In: www.info.gov.hk. July 15, 2009, accessed August 5, 2020 (Chinese, English, exhibition at the HK Film Archive about actress Linda Lin Dai).
  4. ↑ 卫 小林, 海南 日报 - “Wei, Xiaolin from Hainan Daily ”, May 8, 2006: 银幕 绝色 美人 四届 亚太 影 后 林黛 自杀 之 - “Suicide of the screen beauty Lin Dai - Fourfold Movie Queen of Asia-Pacific film Festivals “ ( Memento of August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: ent.hinews.cn, accessed August 5, 2020. (Chinese)
  5. ↑ Lisa Odham Stokes: Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. (=  Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts . No. 2 ). 2nd Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham (Maryland) , USA 2020, ISBN 978-1-5381-2062-0 , pp. 304 , Dictionary - Lin, Linda Dai (1934–1964) (English, full text in the Google book search - With contributions by Jean Lukitsh, Michael Hoover, Tyler Stokes).
  6. ^ Diana Lary: China's Civil War. (=  New Approaches to Asian History . No. 13 ). 1st edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , United Kingdom 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7 , pp. 165–166 , The PLA enters Beiping - Biographies, Lin Dai (English, full text in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ a b c Wong Ain-ling, Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) - The Hong Kong Film Archive: Hong Kong Filmography Volume IV (1953-1959) - Foreword. In: www.lcsd.gov.hk. Retrieved August 5, 2020 (Chinese, English, Hong Kong Film History).
  8. ↑ Lisa Odham Stokes: Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. (=  Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts . No. 2 ). 2nd Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham (Maryland) , USA 2020, ISBN 978-1-5381-2062-0 , pp. xiii , Dictionary - Lin, Linda Dai (1934–1964) (English, full text in the Google book search - With contributions by Jean Lukitsh, Michael Hoover, Tyler Stokes).
personal data
SURNAME Lin, Dai Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linda Lin; Lin, Dai (pinyin); 林黛 (Chinese - long and short characters); Cheng, Yueru; 程 月 如 (Chinese - long and short characters)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanning , Guangxi
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1964
Place of death Hong Kong