Among the older generation of actors in Shangying, I think Qi Mengshi and Liu Qiong are quite similar in temperament, both are elegant. Both were big handsome men when they were young, and relatively speaking, Liu Qiong was more handsome. As an actor, Liu Qiong has good innate conditions, he is tall, tall and well-proportioned, with good facial features and beautiful eyebrows.
Liu Qiong has acted in 73 films in her lifetime and is a famous film performance artist with a wide range of dramas. Most of his films were made in the 1930s and 1940s, and about half of them were made in the golden age of the 1940s.
Liu Qiong, formerly known as Liu Boyao, was born in 1912 in Xiangyin, Hunan. When she was still studying, Liu Qiong had a great interest in movies. In Shanghai Law School, he and other students jointly established the "Spring and Autumn Drama Club", although he studied law, but out of great love for movies, Liu Qiong university has not yet graduated, he was introduced by Jin Yan to join "Lianhua".
In 1938, he played Ximen Qing in "Wu Song and Pan Jinlian" filmed by Xinhua Film Company, and his temperament made Ximen Qing come alive and vivid, leaving a deep impression. Since then, he has been playing the leading role.
From 1938 to 1941, he shot more than ten films such as "Leaving hate heaven", "Gold and Silver World", "Du Shiniang", "Gone with the Wind", and "Parting from Life and Death" in the three companies of "Xinhua", "Huaxin" and "Huacheng". In the film "World of Gold and Silver", he played Zhang Bonan, which laid an important position for him as a young student in the film industry. The subsequent filming of "Life and Death" made him popular in the film industry.
At the end of the 1940s, he began to try to be a director, and his works include "The Debt of the Rich", "Ode to Youth", "Fang Hat" (co-directed with Li Pingqian), and "Song of Youth" (co-directed with Hu Xiaofeng).
In 1952, he was expelled by the Hong Kong authorities for participating in patriotic activities and returned to Shanghai to work as an actor in the Shanghai Film Studio. He has played a leading role or important role in films such as "Sea Soul", "Women's Basketball No. 5", "Wrangler", "Death and the Girl", "Dream Not Dream" and so on.
The first wife was the movie star Yan Fei, and Ding Cong's father, Ding Huo, served as a witness. The wedding ceremony was held in Hongbin Building, Sichuan Road. After marriage, due to the relationship between the third party, the two agreed to divorce, and there was another factor that led to their breakup, which was that they had no children after marriage, which caused Liu Qiong's mother to be dissatisfied with her, Liu Qiong was an only child, and she was a well-known filial piety, and the pressure on him by the family should not be underestimated. After the divorce, Liu Qiong left the bungalow to Yan Fei as compensation.
Later, he met Divan, the two fell in love and held a wedding in May 1946, and have been with each other for 56 years, never separated. Di Fan is also a favorite movie star of the audience, especially her role as The Eight Gu in "The Dark Whistle of Yangcheng", which is still unforgettable.
In the early morning of April 28, 2002, Liu Qiong died in Shanghai at the age of 90 due to ineffective lung cancer treatment. This handsome young man, who used to be equally famous on the screen with golden flames, left the audience who loved him and only left his old images on the film film forever.