Speaking of the name Wei Wei, many people may think of Wei Wei, a singer who has sung songs such as "Dedication of Love", "Asian Majestic Wind", and "Fate Is Not a Reed". In fact, they are two different people, one is a film actor, one is a singing actor, one is nearly 100 years old, and the other is still middle-aged, but their names are somewhat similar.
For Wei Wei, people are more familiar with her, but for Wei Wei, not many people know her, because as a film actor, although Wei Wei became famous in the mainland, he mainly worked in Hong Kong after the founding of the People's Republic of China, plus he is old, and it is understandable not to understand her.
May 17th is the 99th birthday of the famous film artist Wei Wei, and here, Entertainment and Entertainment wishes Wei Wei a happy birthday! Health and longevity!
Born on May 17, 1922 (1918), Wei Wei is a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, whose ancestral home is Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and whose original name is Miao Mengying. Miao Mengying graduated from Shanghai Yunzhong Girls' High School and later worked as a journalist. Because of her professional relationship, she has made some well-known acting friends such as Hu Die, Chen Yanyan, Bai Hong, Li Lili and so on.
In 1941, Miao Mengying, who loved acting, was encouraged by her acting friends to apply for the Shanghai Hard work troupe founded by Huang Zuolin and was admitted. At that time, Shanghai's stage celebrities used stacked characters to take stage names, such as Xia Xia, LanLan, Yingyin, etc., and Miao Mengying borrowed the "feed" used by rickshaw drivers to call people to let go, and named himself "Wei Wei".
Wei Wei's first film was the 1947 famous director Huang Zuolin's adaptation and directing of Gorky's novel "The Bottom", in which Wei Wei played an inconspicuous little supporting role - the dust woman Lin Daiyu.
Wei Wei's real fame was in "Spring in a Small Town" released in 1948, directed by Fei Mu, starring Li Wei and Wei Wei, in which she played a young woman in a small town, Zhou Yuwen.
Zhou Yuwen, played by Wei Wei, is healthy and beautiful, due to her husband's bankruptcy and illness, the life between husband and wife is lifeless, and later the arrival of Zhang Zhichen, a doctor played by Li Wei, makes Yuwen's heart that has been "dead" flooded with huge waves. On the one hand, humanity, on the other hand, human desire, Wei Wei played this role into three points, unforgettable.
Even in the 1980s, it was still rated as the first of the "Top Ten Business Cards of Chinese Cinema" by foreign film critics, and on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema in 2005, "Spring in a Small Town" was also named the 100 best films by mainland and Hong Kong film critics, and ranked among the best.
After participating in "Spring in a Small Town" and "Reunion" starring Shi Yu, Wu Yin and Sun Daolin, in 1948, under the persuasion of the famous director Fei Mu and the Owner of Hong Kong", Wu Shengzhi, Wei Wei left the mainland to go to Hong Kong to shoot a film.
Since then, Wei Wei has participated in dozens of films in Hong Kong, such as "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", "Love at First Sight", "A Year's Plan", "Between Water and Fire", "Lonely Heart", "The Legend of The Wife", "The Wind and Dust", "Grass and Trees are Soldiers", "Men and Women", "False Son-in-law Riding the Dragon" and other movies.
In the early sixties, Wei Wei disappeared.
However, 30 years later, in the early 1990s, although Wei Wei was more than 70 years old, he regained his "dream of acting" and participated in movies such as "I Want to Live", "Concubine Sail", "Anna Madeleine", "Truth to Heart", "Little Kiss", "Happy Birthday", "Fire Dragon Showdown", "Alcoholic", "Legend of the Sea" and so on. However, at this time, most of her roles were old people.
In 1961, Wei Wei married the well-known capitalist Jian Rilin.
In his later years, Wei Wei lived in an apartment building on Nathan Road in Hong Kong, although he was 100 years old, he had a childlike appearance, often liked to wear some big red and green clothes, still beautiful, elegant, healthy...
Entertainment Entertainment TV once again wishes Wei Wei a happy birthday to the old artist! Health and longevity!
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