One
Li Lihua's younger brother said: "If you have seen my sister get up in the morning without makeup, you will not think she is so beautiful." "
However, film pictorials evaluated her: "Her face, eyes, body, movements and voice all represent the beauty of Beijing girls." "
Big director Li Hanxiang said: "Whether it is the style or acting skills of female stars, no one can match her. "
So what kind of person is Li Lihua, who was a two-time Golden Horse Film Queen?
Li Lihua, born in 1924, has lived in a pear garden family since she was a child, her parents are experts in drama, her father is Xiaosheng Li Guifang, her mother is Lao Dan Zhang Shaoquan, there are a total of six brothers and sisters in the family, and Li Lihua is the fifth, at home is also considered to be favored, but before she was born, it was also extremely difficult.
Li Lihua's mother is a person who loves drama, she did not give up even when she was pregnant, every day with a cloth to tighten the stomach, make the illusion of no pregnancy, and then go on stage to perform, in the long run, the fetus in the stomach also has a certain impact, Li Lihua was born less than two kilograms, just like a kitten, even the crying is whimpering, it looks extremely pitiful, so there is a nickname "Xiaomi".
We don't know if Li Lihua's parents forgot or didn't know until she was six years old that they gave her the official name Li Lihua.
Li Lihua seems to be born to inherit the mantle of her parents, at a young age, she has a different view of drama, but she is a little clueless about learning, and she does not love to read, barely finished primary school, it was difficult to be admitted to junior high school, but she could finish the first year of junior high school, the second year of junior high school said that she did not read anything, and she had to drop out of school. Her parents listened, and it paid off! I thought: I originally wanted you to read more books and have a good future, you actually wanted to drop out of school, and then punch you in the face.
But who knows that Li Lihua is like an iron heart, how to fight can not be, how to scold do not listen, there are parents in the world can beat the children, in the end or her parents raised their hands and surrendered, let her learn the drama from the teacher.
Li Lihua studied with the famous Mu Tiefen and Zhang Shuyun at a very young age, moved to Beiping at the age of 12, and then studied Peking Opera, after which Li Lihua could mix in the film circle, acting like what, and the Foundation of Peking Opera laid down in her early years was inseparable.
It's just that there will always be one or two obstacles on everyone's way to success.
Two
Li Lihua was already in the war, and before she could become famous, she caught up with the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, and the whole family had to move from Beijing to Shanghai with their family, experiencing a period of upheaval and displacement.
Fortunately, at that time, Shanghai was still relatively stable, although Li Lihua experienced war, but still maintained a cheerful personality, coupled with her appearance, it was easy to enter the eyes of Yan Chuntang, general manager of Shanghai Yihua Film Company, and began to take another road.
Li Lihua, who has just joined the company, was able to participate in "The Legend of Heroes and Martyrs", although it is only a small role, but it is also very good to be able to play against the famous Xiaosheng Meixi.
It was also in that year that Yihua Company was preparing to shoot "Three Laughs", and somehow, it remembered Li Lihua and directly let her play the heroine. During that time, there was also a commercial competition, and Guohua Company, which was a competitor with Yihua Company, also began to prepare for the filming of "Three Laughs", and the heroine of the family was a very famous Zhou Xuan.
It is very coincidental that these two "Three Laughs" were actually released at the same time, but what people never expected was that Li Lihua, who was just starting out, actually played a draw with the famous Zhou Xuan, which made many people start to wonder: "Who is Li Lihua?" "Gossip always spread quickly, and it didn't take long for Li Lihua to become famous and popular, and she also had a place among female stars who became famous fast, so she also had the title of "lightning star".
There are many people who disappear after a hit, such as the "little fairy" Bai Xue in "Little Fish and Flowers", or Liu Pinyan in "Green Light Forest", but this is not the case with Li Lihua, this is just her starting point.
After that, she successively participated in "Laughing Karma" and "Thousand Miles to Send Beijing Niang" but more than a dozen films, Li Lihua was also able to leap to become a popular actress with the same appeal as Zhou Manhua.
At that time, she was very shrewd, she knew that if she only relied on herself, she could not have a great future in the entertainment industry, so she entrusted people to find a relationship, somehow, she found Du Yuesheng, the front of this green gang gangster, and was very lucky to become his dry daughter, Du Yuesheng was also very powerful, Li Lihua's time in Shanghai, Du Yuesheng gave her great help, which can make her mix in the entertainment industry.
But it is like this, it seems that she is a little too smooth sailing in the show business circle, so she accidentally took a fork in the road.
In 1942, when Shanghai fell, the situation was turbulent, and the Central League and Huaying also fell into the hands of Japan and the puppet army, at that time, in order to promote the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle", they specially prepared a "Chunjiang Hate", the theme of which was to beautify Japan and scandalize Britain, to put it bluntly, it was to brainwash the common people, and the protagonists of this film were Li Lihua and Wang Danfeng.
After this episode, many people published articles to criticize Li Lihua for selling her soul, which made Li Lihua silent for a while, and later in order to avoid the wind, she chose to leave this place where she became famous and ran to Qingdao, and the film also became a stain on Li Lihua's life.
In 1946, Li Lihua and others were also summoned by the court, in court, Li Lihua always explained that she did not know what this film was going to express, and now she regrets it, so she has plans to quit the show business, but because of the current situation, this matter finally failed.
But in any case, this matter has an indelible impact on li lihua and Wang Danfeng, actors, for a long time, they can not get rid of such a moral burden, even after thirty or fifty years, Li Lihua has been explaining: "We are not traitors..."
Although Li Lihua and others made such films, under such a situation and such an era background, they can also be said to be victims, fortunately, Li Lihua was not held responsible for this and once again devoted herself to film work.
Three
In 1946, Li Lihua got married, her marriage object was Zhang Xupu, a well-known rich man in Shanghai, the two also respected each other at the beginning, very loving, it did not take long, the two had a daughter, and during this time, Li Lihua has been idle at home, did not go out to work, as if suddenly became a housewife, just care about the husband and son at home.
But fortunately, fate still favored her, and it didn't take long to give her the opportunity to come back, but she didn't think about it, which also made her fall into the whirlpool of public opinion again.
In 1947, she and Shi Hui starred in a "Fake Phoenix", but they did not expect to cause dissatisfaction from the Shanghai Barber Union, they thought that the film was suspected of insulting the barber, so they gathered hundreds of barbers and ran to the door of the theater to protest, but they did not expect to give the film a free publicity, and then the director after the revision of "Fake Phoenix" was released, the scene was full, and it also became Li Lihua's masterpiece in the Shanghai period.
But not long after, Li Lihua followed the large army of Shanghai actors to Hong Kong to shoot Chinese film, but at that time, each of them was observing the changes in the situation, and then Li Lihua and others chose to stay in Hong Kong to develop, while Wang Danfeng chose to return to the mainland, and it was precisely because of the long separation of the two places that Li Lihua's marriage failed, of course, the problem of social background was not excluded.
In 1948, Li Lihua, who ran to Hong Kong to develop, had a good life, and even joined the "Reading Club" organized by Hong Kong leftist filmmakers two years later, that period coincided with the development momentum of the Hong Kong leftist film company, Li Lihua also seemed to hitch a ride, successively participated in four films such as "Poetry Heirloom" and "Fire Phoenix", and in 1950, it is also known as "Li Lihua Nian", which can be imagined, her status in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
As a small woman, Li Lihua is accustomed to judging the situation.
In 1953, the mainland imposed restrictions on Hong Kong films, and Taiwan banned leftist films from entering the market, under such circumstances, Li Lihua immediately abandoned her original leftist films and wrote an article to publicly "turn to the right", which also prompted her to shoot nearly 80 films in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, with a high right to speak.
In 1957, Li Lihua and Yan Jun held another wedding ceremony.
They say that it is a love affair between the two, but it is actually more like a love triangle.
Four
As early as when Li Lihua was 17 years old, she and Yan Jun met each other, there are rumors that the relationship between the two at that time was good, but because of family reasons, the two broke up, after all, two families, one is relatively rich, the other is relatively poor, so that the wrong door love, will always be suppressed, and Yan Jun did not get the approval of Li Lihua's mother.
Later, when Yan Jun became popular, both as an actor and as a director, Yan Jun met Lin Dai, who was 20 years younger than him, and the two people knew and fell in love, and gradually came together. There are rumors that at that time, Lin Dai and Li Lihua were good friends, but because of Yan Jun, the feelings of the two people broke down, in fact, there was no third party between them, which can also be regarded as a different kind of "love triangle".
Yan Jun married Li Lihua again after falling in love with Lin Dai for four years. On the day of their marriage, there was also such a oolong: Lin Dai committed suicide, and some fans once thought that she committed suicide because Li Lihua and Yan Jun were happily married, and then learned that she chose to commit suicide because her husband had an extramarital affair.
In 1958, Li Lihua's career had a new leap forward, she was invited by Hollywood in the United States to participate in "Flying Tiger Jiaowa", and she also became the first Chinese actress to be the heroine in Hollywood, after which Li Lihua also had plans to stay in Hollywood, but later did not know what reason did not work, and then returned to Hong Kong to develop.
Li Hanxiang's "Yang Guifei" and "Wu Zetian", Li Lihua are well-deserved heroines, she has both a powerful aura and a feminine face, the two complement each other and have a different charm.
In 1964, Li Lihua won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for "Spring Dream in the Old Capital", and in 1969, she won the Golden Horse Award again for "Yangtze River Storm".
What is unexpected is that Li Lihua and Jackie Chan still have a relationship.
Also in 1964, Li Lihua was able to co-perform "Qin Xianglian" with Jackie Chan when she was a child, and the two played the role of mother and son in the film, and Jackie Chan's "mother" was also called for more than 50 years.
In 1973, Li Lihua moved her family to the United States and returned to Taiwan five years later. Unfortunately, yan jun died of illness after living in Taiwan for two years, at the age of 63.
In the days that followed, it took Li Lihua a long time to come out of her grief, and it wasn't long before she married a Singaporean tycoon, Wu Zhongyi.
Wu Zhongyi not only has money, he is also a loyal fan of Li Lihua, so when he learned that Li Lihua was lonely in his later years, he chose to accompany her, but in the end he could not grow old with her and died in 2005.
Li Lihua is just the opposite, she has always been extremely full of vitality, after getting old, she is still not idle, from time to time to speculate in stocks, open a restaurant, the days are also very beautiful, until 2017, Li Lihua died at the age of 93.
In fact, in the end, Lin Lihua's life is not smooth sailing, she has experienced war, experienced that war, but she can rely on her own wisdom, left and right, can have a place in the mainland, Hong Kong and Hollywood, she has never forgotten her dreams, no matter when and where, she is insisting on filming, she should be a rare actress of that era who can retreat from the whole body!
But even if she is like this, she also has a stain on her life, that is, the "Spring River Hate", some people feel that she is in the war and chaos period, can understand her such a practice, after all, according to her, she has no knowledge of this matter, but some people feel that the national spirit should be remembered, and besides, the film will always have a script, after reading the script, don't you know what kind of plot is played in it?
I don't know how you think about the "Spring River Hate" played by her in front of the screen? Feel free to leave your impressions in the comments section.
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