When I sorted out the information of old movies and old filmmakers, I found that many of the actors or stars were husband and wife, such as the familiar Zhao Dan Huang Zongying, Sun Daolin Wang Wenjuan and so on. Of course, there are some that you may not be very familiar with and understand. For example, the two stars we will talk about today, one is good-looking, handsome, but famous as an old landlord at the age of 29, while the other is a beautiful woman in the 50s, beautiful as a flower, but for various reasons, it has never become popular. Both of them, one is Xia Zongxue and the other is Yuan Mei.
I guess when it comes to these two names, many friends are not very familiar with them, right? But whenever I talk about the roles they played, you will remember them vividly. It seems that many stars in the past have been like this, they have always been able to make the audience remember the characters in the play and ignore their own names. This is very different from many stars today. So, let's take a look at these two actors first.
Let's start with Xia Zongxue. When it comes to Xia Zongxue, we have to mention the once-sensational movie "Liu Sanjie". This movie is beautiful and beautiful, and in that era of lack of beauty, it has brought shock to the hearts of too many people. Through this movie, everyone will always remember the beautiful Liu Sanjie Huang Wanqiu and the humble and simple Brother Liu Shilong, and at the same time, they also remember the big villain among them- Mo Huairen, the landlord who persecuted and framed Liu Sanjie. And the actor of this role is Xia Zongxue.
Xia Zongxue is actually very handsome, and he is from an acting professional class, and he could have played a positive male protagonist in many films, but why could he only play the role of an old landlord when he was young? It's because his family composition is not good. And it is also the reason for his family origin, which not only makes him miss many opportunities, but also experiences too many tribulations and turmoil.
Xia Zongxue was born in 1931 in Anqing, Anhui Province. In 1951, he was admitted to the Shanghai Theater College and studied acting. After graduation, he worked in Many units such as Shanghai Renyi and Shanghai Children's Art. In 1958, because of his family origin, he was transferred out of Shanghai and arranged to work as a teacher in Guangxi. But it was also in Guangxi that he got the first film role in his acting career, that is, Mo Huairen in "Liu Sanjie".
It was 1960, Xia Zongxue was 29 years old, as the object of "investigation", the protagonist and the positive role could not be played, so the role of the biggest villain, the old landlord, was arranged for him. But I didn't expect that Xia Zongxue had done a very good job, and with a real and natural performance, he shaped the image of Mo Huairen, a big landlord who coveted Liu Sanjie's beauty and tried to stop the villagers from singing. Xia Zongxue became famous for this and became the object of imitation by children at that time. At the same time, he was also transferred to the Guangxi Repertory Theatre to become an actor again.
Later, he played Ma Shaokui in the movie "The Story of Brother Bao". It was not until 1979, after 20 years had passed, that he was transferred back to Shanghai and served as the deputy head of the Shanghai Renyi Third Troupe. During this period, he participated in many movies, such as Wei Zhipu in "Love Heaven Hates the Sea", Ouyang Guang in "Flying to the Pacific", Liu Xiaoqing's father in "Deep in the Soul", Ling Mengqing in "Moon to Mid-Autumn Festival", Yang Yimin in "Disaster On the Wall", etc., most of whom are male protagonists. And it was also during the filming of "Mid-Autumn Festival" that he met his future wife, Yuan Mei, an old actor of the North Film Studio.
Before this, Xia Zongxue had a marriage, but a long-term turbulent life led to the marriage not lasting. Until 1982, I met Yuan Mei, who played the heroine in "The Moon to the Mid-Autumn Festival". In the play, the two are a husband and wife who have broken through many obstacles and finally come together, and outside the play, they have also developed feelings for each other. In 1987, the two married. At that time, Xia Zongxue was 56 years old and Yuan Mei was 52 years old.
Yuan Mei was born in 1935. In 1954, he was admitted to the General Political Repertory Theatre as an actor. She is very beautiful, bright teeth, radiant, and has a natural "petty bourgeois" temperament. But such a temperament seemed a bit "out of place" in the 1950s. In 1957, she starred in the film "Footsteps of Youth", in which she played the heroine Lin Meilan. Through this film, the audience witnessed the amazing beauty of Yuan Mei. But soon the film was labeled a "poisonous weed", and Yuan Mei was also implicated.
In 1961, she appeared again in the movie "Beida Wild Man", playing the innocent and beautiful little swallow, which left a very deep impression. In 1962, Yuan Mei was transferred to the North Film Studio as a professional film actor, but she did not get more filming opportunities because of her youth and beauty. Like Xia Zongxue, she missed the best years of her youth, and it was not until the 80s that she ushered in the peak of her career.
In 1980, she once again attracted the attention of the audience for starring in the movie "The Second Handshake" with Xie Fang, Kang Tai and other veteran actors. But because the actors in this film are generally older, it seems that it is difficult to play a young intellectual, so the audience does not seem to buy it.
After that, Yuan Mei put her main energy into shaping middle-aged and elderly roles, and successively starred in movies such as "Sword Soul", "Zhiyin", "Moon to Mid-Autumn Festival", "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Played", "Dream of the Red Chamber", as well as TV series such as "When the Day Caiyun Returns", "The New Class Teacher", "Uprooting Lu ChaiHua", "The Second Canyon" and so on.
Xia Zongxue and Yuan Mei actually have the external and internal conditions of idol actors, but they have not been recognized by more people in the best years. However, after middle age, people have obtained a double harvest of career and love. After the two got married, they went hand in hand at work, and they frothed each other in life and accompanied each other until they were old. The so-called "Mo Dao Sang Yu Evening, the most beautiful sunset red", is it them?
In 2013, Xia Zongxue passed away, which was lamentable. Now Yuan Mei is also 83 years old, the beautiful star who used to amaze many people with a fresh and elegant temperament in "Footsteps of Youth", and with the passage of time, she has gradually aged. However, it still maintains that idyllic and elegant style, and the style is still there.
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