She was the first Chinese actress to enter Hollywood; she won the Golden Horse Award and was awarded by Jackie Chan on her knees; she has been at the top of the film industry for forty years, never declining; her name is Li Lihua, known as "Little Miss Mi".
In the history of Chinese film, there are always many film queens or film emperors who are short-lived, but there are also many evergreen trees in the film industry, who make unremitting efforts on the screen and eventually become beloved superstars of the Heavenly King, Li Lihua is such a person.
Li Lihua has starred in more than 120 films for more than 30 years, is a highly prolific actress in the mouth of a generation of film fans, and a star in the Chinese film industry that has always radiated a dazzling light.
In 1924, Li Lihua was born in the Family of The Lingren of Beiping, her parents were all famous people in the Jutan, and her mother was still singing around her waist when she was pregnant in September, resulting in Li Lihua landing less than four pounds, like a well-behaved cat, and the family called her "Xiaomi".
Because her parents performed in Shanghai, Li Lihua stayed in Shanghai since she was born, and when she was in elementary school, she studied at a church primary school near Xiafei Road in the French Concession, and the junior high school was a French school called "Notre Dame" on the Bund.
Li Lihua was so interested in reading, she dropped out of school after finishing the second year of junior high school, bent on taking the road of literature and art like her parents, and there was no way at home to let her learn drama, so Li Lihua worshipped a famous man as a teacher and began to study Peking Opera in Beiping.
In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident, Li Lihua and her family returned to Shanghai, and after returning from school, she did not become a horn like her parents, but instead embarked on the road of movie stars.
In 1939, Shanghai Yihua Film Company looked for an actress for the movie "Three Laughs" and looked at Li Lihua, who was beautiful and had a prominent temperament, but Li Lihua was just a fledgling newcomer, and in order to make her a hit, the company thought of a good idea.
The circus published a lost and found in the "News Newspaper": "After the end of the show yesterday, the staff of the troupe picked up a diamond ring of the first class in the box, hoping that the original owner would come to the office to retrieve it." ”
At the same time, Li Lihua also published an announcement in the newspaper: Li Lihua, the heroine of the movie "Three Laughs", lost a rare diamond ring when watching a circus performance! Eager to find the diamond ring! ”
Beautiful actresses, missing diamond rings, these are like the plot in the suspense film to satisfy people's appetite, suddenly set off a city of attention, Li Lihua's name is indeed not shy.
A few days later, Li Lihua published an article publicly thanking the circus for collecting gold, and specially sent a two-hundred-yuan honorarium to thank, and the circus issued a statement: Donate the honorarium to the children's correctional institution, and the next day, the correctional institution will come forward to thank it.
After this round of hype, "Three Laughs" was first hit before it was released, and when the movie was released, the audience went to the cinema to see the news heroine of the legend for many days, wanting to see what the hostess of this diamond ring really looked like.
Li Lihua became a hit, and "Three Laughs" also followed the trend out of the sequel, and then let Li Lihua shoot seventeen films such as "Laughing Cause", "A Thousand Miles to send Beijing Niang", "New Traviata Girl", "Soul Broken Blue Bridge", "Invisible Woman", "Rose Withering" and so on.
Li Lihua soon became the most dazzling newcomer in Shanghai in 1940, the royal sister looks, Lori's figure, the queen, the girl transformed freely, was called by Ke Junxiong "all the best in art, changeable beauty", Zhang Ailing also said that she "smoke and beauty, absolute eye-catching".
Li Lihua has a very broad drama path and is competent for various roles, she is an upright journalist in "Sunny Days"; she is an exquisite and lying social flower in "The World of Lying"; she has played a strong and cute textile worker in "Wrong Time"...
The difference between the roles played by Li Lihua is very large, but no matter what role she plays, Li Lihua has shown outstanding performance skills, creating a lot of vivid and cute character images, which has won a lot of praise.
In 1944, Li Lihua became engaged to Zhang Xupu, the son of a wealthy merchant, and married in Qingdao two years later, after which the couple lived in Qingdao and had a daughter.
In 1947, Li Li starred in the movie "Fake Phoenix", which is a comedy about the encounters of small people, "Movie Emperor" Shi Hui plays the barber, and Li Lihua plays the widow pretending to be a rich family in the film.
At the time of the film's trial screening, the character's SuBei dialect in the film caused dissatisfaction in the Shanghai barber industry, which was considered to be suspected of insulting barbers, and hundreds of barbers protested at the entrance of the theater, and the company had to make changes.
Unexpectedly, this storm invisibly made a free publicity hype for the film, and after the release, the scene was full, setting a high box office, and becoming another milestone in Li Lihua's long acting career.
After the success of "False Phoenix", Li Lihua made a comeback in the film industry, and two years later, she went to Hong Kong with a group of Shanghai film stars such as Zhou Xuan, Bai Yang, Liu Qiong, etc. Soon after arriving in Hong Kong, Li Lihua divorced her husband Zhang Xupu.
After arriving in Hong Kong, Li Lihua shot films in many film companies such as the Great Wall, Longma, Yonghua, Shaw, etc., and set box office records many times, and in 1958, she also entered Hollywood, cooperating with the Oscar best director Frank Bozac on "Flying Tiger Jiaowa".
During his time in Hong Kong, the director who cooperated with Li Lihua the most was Li Hanxiang and Yan Jun, and the tacit understanding between Yan Jun and Yan Jun was beyond the general working relationship, and soon after returning from the United States, Li Lihua married Yan Jun.
Due to the good momentum of development in Hong Kong, Li Lihua never returned to the mainland to shoot films, and shot 80 or 90 films in Hong Kong, including "Wu Zetian", "Yang Guifei" and "Wangu Liufang".
In the 1960s, Li Lihua moved to Taiwan with her husband, filming the films "Yangtze River Storm" and "Spring Dream of the Ancient Capital" in Taiwan, and won the best actress of the third and seventh "Golden Horse Awards" with these two films, respectively.
In 1978, Li Lihua starred in the Taiwanese film "Dream of the New Red Chamber" and the TV series "Sacred Sword and Thousand Autumns", which took a break from film and settled in New York with his husband Yan Jun, who died of illness and spent the rest of his life with a new partner in Singapore.
The 2015 Golden Horse Awards, Li Lihua's last appearance, she was pushed onto the stage in a wheelchair, was awarded the Golden Horse Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Jackie Chan, who played her son in "Qin Xianglian", knelt down to present the award to her.
This mother, Jackie Chan called for fifty years, Jackie Chan said to the camera: "You are the eternal superstar in our hearts, you are the eternal goddess in our hearts." ”