"What's going on, Mr. Hu?"
On December 25, 1936, the adventure-themed song and dance film "Stowaway", starring american "genius child star" Xiulan Temple, was released, which was about the adventures of an American girl named Qingqing in Shanghai, China.
In the movie, the cute Xiulan Temple wears a traditional Chinese diagonal cardigan, and also pulls the erhu like a Chinese who is talking absurdly, and the year the film was released, Xiulan Temple turned 8 years old.
Out of the set in 1977, When Xiulan Temple visited China, she was no longer the "cutest little angel", but a 49-year-old middle-aged woman who had been in the shadows for nearly three decades.
On February 10, 2014, under the care of three children, a great-granddaughter and two great-granddaughters, Shulan Temple passed away peacefully at the age of 85 at her home in Woodside, California.
The "little angel" will fly back to heaven, but the screen will leave her innocence behind and soothe the gray heart.
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"We salute her. She was a remarkable life, as an actress, as a diplomat, and most importantly our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and wife whom we adored for 55 years. ”
After the death of Xiulan Temple, her family issued a statement to fans, audiences, and everyone who cared about her, as stated in the statement, there is no doubt that Xiulan Temple is a remarkable life.
This remarkable life originated in Santa Monica, California, where Sheran Temple's father was a bank teller and her mother was a beautiful housewife.
The housewife was once a dancer with a strong dream of cinema, so the unfinished dream was pinned on her daughter, Xiulan Temple, who was sent by her mother to the dance school where Hollywood scouts often haunted from the age of three.
"On April 23, 1928, my mother's plan finally came true, and I was really a girl. I came to earth at nine o'clock in the evening, but I missed dinner time. I lost a meal from the beginning (and since then, I've been trying to make up for that loss). ”
Sure enough, the opportunity belonged to those who were prepared, except that it was Gertrude Amelia Temple who was prepared, not her three-year-old daughter, Shuran Temple.
"Xiulan, spirit point, spirit point!"
This is the most said sentence by the mother to her daughter, Temple said to herself, she only had two years of lazy infancy, and since then she has only been left with work, working 5 hours a day, adding 2 or 3 hours on weekends, and if something goes wrong during filming, her mother will lock her up in a small black room.
In addition to filming, I also have to study with my personal trainer for 3 hours a day, so that I am sleepy at work, and my mother's reproachful reminder will sound at this time. However, Xiulan Temple never complained, not that she understood things or understood her mother's hard work, but that "I thought I was working for every child."
Xiulan Temple's mother paved a star path for her from an early age, created her exclusive hairstyle with 56 rolls, and created a golden starting line for her: the success of "Standing Cheers" at the age of 6, the Oscar at the age of 7, the 11-year-old film salary of more than 120,000 US dollars, the signing of Fox...
In the mother's heart, the daughter is not only a cute and beautiful child, but also a projection of herself, and if Gertrude Temple re-lives, it will be Sheran Temple, even better, more successful, more eye-catching than Shelan Temple.
But the mother forgot that she was still a child, that she was herself, Thata--Shulan Temple.
What people most infatuate, and even covetous, is the innocence of Xiulan Temple, who will lean on her fleshy face, wear dresses, socks and shoes, tap dance, pout and laugh, and shed tears.
As if looking at her, the life and death of the great Depression society that have been abducted, decadent and degenerate, and made extremely difficult due to the economic depression can be left behind, and everyone can live in a fairy tale.
Of course, there is a price to pay for many people to live in fairy tales and forget the bleakness of reality, and this price is that fairy tales will disappear as quickly as possible in Therain Temple's own life: from the age of 6 she no longer believes that there is Santa Claus in the world, and on Christmas Eve, her mother takes her to the department store to see Santa Claus, and Santa Claus asks For an autographed photo from Xiulan Temple.
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For Xiulan Temple, this day is indeed too fast, but she can't tell whether this day is coming too fast or her own growth rate.
Temple's innocence was diluted early on by fame and materialism, and the ugliness and dirtiness of Hollywood and materialistic society were not hidden because she was a child, but because she was a naïve and ignorant child, at least it seemed, and more unscrupulous.
A well-known producer would become a "body artist" in front of Temple, who had never seen anyone else's nude, and Temple, who had never seen anyone else's naked body, initially thought it was funny, "I laughed, laughed and cried", while the man with the moral character threw her out in anger.
They made her look ugly, but asked her to perform beautifully, and the film company even asked her not to go out too much to maintain her childishness, and someone told her that the audience could see her innocence in her eyes.
To this day, the most frequent phrase in the short reviews of Temple's later works is still "Xiulan Temple has grown up, not as cute as a child"; and at that time, the young girl Temple had to face a wave of bad reviews and dismal box office reviews.
Cuteness is what most people ask of Xiulan Temple, once she grows up to be unlovable, the dreams they project on Temple will be shattered, and they will no longer pay for her movies, even if The girlish Xiulan Temple is still as beautiful as Snow White.
Xiulan Temple's adolescence was not as gorgeous as a summer flower, even if she had a flower-like body and face that no one appreciated, And Temple gradually went from being a box office darling to the point where there was no drama to shoot, which was acceptable to herself.
But it was a fatal blow to her mother, who had been working on a star plan since the birth of her daughter, and seeing that her plan had been a huge success, was naturally unwilling to give up.
After Xiulan Temple stopped her acting career and returned to school, her mother's impression of him was that the manipulation of a huge life did not stop.
The mother still desperately hopes that her daughter will continue to work in acting and return to the peak of her life, and still give her a contract continuously, even if it is a supporting role of two or three lines, to be honest, Temple's mother is more suitable for being an actor than Temple.
Is it that Xiulan Temple is not cute when she grows up, or does the audience not want to grow up? Do you want Xiulan Temple to be Peter Pan forever, or do the spectators need such innocent and innocent eyes to look up to themselves, even if what they are doing is ugly and dirty?
When Xiulan Temple gradually became cold and discouraged about her acting career and the audience gradually abandoned her, Temple chose to get married and have children and fade out of the film world.
Temple's first husband, John Agar, an Air Force soldier who was the brother of her classmate, possessed a rebellion that Temple had never experienced before, so she married this man at the age of 17, and she wanted to taste rebellion.
The mother was against the marriage, a very intelligent woman who had foreshadowed that her daughter's marriage would bring no benefits, but she could no longer tie her daughter up, because her rebellious marriage was mainly to escape from her.
Her mother asked Temple not to announce that she was married, and Temple deliberately attended various parties with a diamond ring, she hated such a life, a life controlled by her mother, and what she wanted was to get rid of all this through marriage, but she looked at the wrong person.
Xiulan Temple's first marriage lasted 5 years, they had a daughter, the beginning of the married life Temple was still filming, but she was more obsessed with doing housework, perhaps in her imagination, she must be able to become a happy woman through marriage.
Unfortunately, her husband was drunk and wanted to use Temple to desperately climb into the show business circle, and eventually the marriage broke down, she still paid for her rebellion.
"I don't want to take another hit." Sheran Temple's second husband was a brilliant entrepreneur, and Charles Black had never seen Temple's films before, which was especially important for Temple, but for the sake of safety, she asked her friends to conduct an in-depth investigation of the man.
This time, she finally understood that marriage was not a rebellious game, but a deliberate choice, and after marrying Charles, Temple left the film industry completely, and never made a movie again, and they had two children after marriage. This time, she chose the right one, and this was a good man who loved her deeply. The man had lived with her for more than fifty years, and he and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren had been accompanying her through this extraordinary journey of life.
Xiulan Temple has really grown up, no longer a childish child, no longer a runaway girl, no longer a projection of a mother or a spectator who does not want to grow up.
She became herself, and instead of "the innocence dissipated," as others say, she grew up, and her innocence grew up, and she became the courage to clean herself in a materialistic world, which was more precious than the innocence of childishness.
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Xiulan Temple, who quit the film world, is still that smiling, and people say that she is an ageless myth and a synonym for angels.
But she herself understood that her laughter now was not for performance, not for flattery, but for Xiulan Temple's own truest laugh.
"I am a happy woman with great achievements and a lucky woman. If I could live again, I wouldn't make any changes to my life. ”
As an actress, it should be said that as a child star, Xiulan Temple is a "vase" to a great extent, and what she needs to play is an innocent and cute little girl.
But few people say that Xiulan Temple is a "vase" as an actress, because she has shown great acting talent since childhood, her crying scenes are amazing, his smile is touching, not to mention that she has paid for the diligence and hard work of the entire childhood.
However, as a politician, Temple is indeed a "vase", since the 1970s, Temple entered the U.S. mission to the United Nations, later served as the U.S. ambassador to various countries, in 1976 as the director of the Protocol Department, looking glamorous, but she has little room to play.
In April 1977, Xiulan Temple visited China as a diplomat, and the TV station broadcast a number of Temple films such as "Little Dimples" and "Little Sailor", which triggered a boom in Xiulan Temple in China for a time, and the children's channel host "Scarab" Liu Chunyan voiced him, and won the Feitian Award.
In fact, as early as the Republic of China period, Xiulan Temple has been loved by the Chinese people, in 1935 Shanghai Great Bright Theater screened "Bright Eyes", the poster posted at that time has been borrowing the fame of Xiulan Temple advertising: "Xiulan Temple's new masterpiece".
There are female stars in Shanghai who imitate Xiulan Temple and become popular, there are household magazines such as "Good Friends" that do Temple's features, and there are soap boxes and incense powder trademarks that use Temple's head, and these products are very popular.
Not only in the United States, but in many countries in the world, Xiulan Temple has a large number of fans, it seems that every corner of the world needs the innocent smile of Xiulan Temple to care for and soothe, after all, "the heart of beauty, everyone has it".
What has always fascinated people is the face of Xiulan Dumbo in her childhood, few people can really appreciate her smile after the film, and people still think that the identity of wife, mother, grandmother, diplomat, etc. is insignificant, which is a kind of praise as an actor.
But as a legendary woman, there is some sadness. Movies are the art of dreaming, but life can not live in dreams forever, if you take life as a dream, do not want to grow up truly, then it is no different from the viewer who said "Xiulan Temple grew up, not as cute as a child".
Xiulan Temple has grown up, but she is still cute, as a filmmaker she has left her innocence on the screen forever, as a woman, she has written a legend with her life.
"She was an impressive life."
How to become a little angel loved by everyone may be a childlike innocence with no evil spirit, but it may also be an optimistic and smiling growth after the storm.
Xiulan Temple has completed the role of "Little Angel" with a lifetime, but what the audience likes to see is the role she plays in the movie, or the optimism and positivity that she uses her life to show?