Beijing News (reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) On December 23, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from director Jiang Ping that Li Meng, the actor of "Xiuying" in the movie "The Daughter of the Party" and an old artist of long-term film, died in Shanghai on December 17 at the age of 87. It is reported that Li Meng was particularly low-key before his death, and after retiring from Changying, he settled in Shanghai and lived a peaceful life in his later years.
In the film "The Party's Daughter", Li Meng played Xiuying (pictured right).
Yu Yong, a special researcher at the Oral History Research Center of Nanjing University of the Arts, revealed to the Beijing News reporter, "Teacher Li Meng suffered from Alzheimer's syndrome in her later years, and when she was more serious in the late stage, she hardly knew acquaintances or even relatives, and lost her ability to read, but she always cared about the dynamics in the WeChat group of the long-shadow actor troupe, and instructed her son to enter the group and read the speeches and information of everyone in the group for her every day." According to her son, her mother smiles whenever she hears something interesting, but she doesn't know if her old man understands the content. ”
Li Meng played Li Fenglian in the film "Ten Thousand Waters and a Thousand Mountains".
Born in Shanghai in 1932, Li Meng graduated from Wuxi Jiangnan University and studied vocal music and dance at the school. In 1951, he was invited to shoot the film "Sister Sister Stand Up" at Shanghai Wenhua Film Company, playing the heroine Daxiang, who walked on the screen for the first time and left a deep impression on the audience. In 1953, he joined the Beijing Film Actors Troupe as an actor, and in 1955, he was transferred to Changchun Film Studio as an actor. He has successively filmed "The Story of Summer" (1955), "Ma Lan Blossom" (1956), "Daughter of the Party" (1958), "Ten Thousand Waters and a Thousand Mountains" (1959), "Big Guy" (1983), "No. 5 Garden Street" (1984) and other films.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Edited by Huang Jialing Proofreader Wu Xingfa Courtesy of Yu Yong