After the TV series "Latent" was broadcast, spy war films swept the north and south of the river, and one by one unsung heroes were well known through the interpretation of film and television dramas, presumably Qian Zhuangfei, one of the legendary agents of "Three Masters of Longtan", no one will be unfamiliar, after Gu Shunzhang's defection, Qian Zhuangfei made the most correct choice at the time of the first attack, protecting the safe transfer of the central organs.
Audiences who love movies are naturally no stranger to the Republic of China film star Li Lili, whose bodybuilding and kind image has injected new vitality into Chinese films, Li Lili lived until 2005 and was the last star in the silent film era.
Even if many people know Qian Zhuangfei and Li Lili, there are few who know that they are biological fathers and daughters, the daughter of a secret agent is a female star on the screen, and the father of a female star is a legendary agent, and the lives of their father and daughter are indeed more exciting than the stories on the screen.
Figure Qian Zhuangfei
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"Li Lili is the most innocent and simple of female stars, she is still studying in Nanyang Gaoshang under the scientific name of Li Keling, so in the social field, she is not likely to see her wanderings, her father practices medicine in Beiping Hanging Kettle, her surname is Qian, and the life of her mother and a brother is independently undertaken by her.
Her salary in Lianhua is 100 yuan per month, and each piece is paid the same amount, but because she only shoots two or three plays at most every year, the average monthly income is only about 1230 yuan per month, and she has to pay tuition, and the monthly room and meal fees are also very impressive, so her life is very poor, but she can be willing to be fed, and she does not want to make extra benefits, which is also very admirable! ”
This is an article published in the Republic of China women's fashion magazine "Linglong" in June 1934, entitled "Li Lili's Life", introducing the family situation of the movie actress Li Lili, who was affectionately called "Sweet Sister" by the audience, but in fact, there was a mistake hidden in the article that readers did not find - at the time of the article's publication, Li Lili's father was no longer practicing medicine in Beijing.
This is a mistake that neither the reader nor the writer can know, or it is a secret, a secret that even Lily Lili herself does not know:
At the beginning of 1928, Li Lili's father left Beijing for Shanghai, and a year later, Li Lili's father who practiced medicine became the confidential secretary of Xu Enzeng, the director of the Central Unification Bureau, and after Gu Shunzhang's rebellion in 1931, Li Lili's father left Nanjing for the Central Soviet District.
Then, shortly after the article was published, Li Lili's father embarked on the Road of the Long March. The secret that neither readers nor the writers can know is that the father of the big movie star Li Lili turned out to be the best agent of the CCP, Qian Zhuangfei, and the secret that Li Lili did not know was the whereabouts of her father, and her father Qian Zhuangfei disappeared forever on the Long March during the Four Crossings of Chishui a year later.
Qian Zhuangfei is a native of Zhejiang, after coming to Beiping to study medicine, he stayed in Beiping to start a family, and in 1925, after being introduced, Qian Zhuangfei and his wife joined the Communist Party of China to engage in underground activities.
In 1927, the April 12 Incident broke out, in order to avoid the wanted, Qian Zhuangfei and his wife and children moved from Beijing to Shanghai, Qian Zhuangfei saw the radio training recruitment advertisement in the newspaper, mistakenly hit the ground, he entered the newly formed secret service organization of the Kuomintang with the first place.
Figure Xu Enzeng
Who could have predicted that after Qian Zhuangfei entered the Kuomintang secret service organization, he was appreciated by Xu Enzeng, director of the Central Command Bureau, promoted him to be a confidential secretary, realized that his position was very important, and secretly contacted Li Kenong, and under the command of Wu Hao, he established an iron triangle of red agents within the Kuomintang intelligence organs.
Qian Zhuangfei's daughter Li Lili knew from an early age that her parents were secret agents, her parents had taken care of her, and the family's affairs could not be said to the outside world, and if someone came to the house for a meeting, she had to take her brother out to put on a sentry.
She also knew many celebrities, at that time she liked grasshoppers, so she secretly raised a box of grasshoppers, which were placed under her parents' bed, because she was worried that one day the grasshoppers would be thrown away by her parents, so she moved her small bed to the bed next to her parents, and the grasshoppers did not run, but one by one the secrets like a story ran into her ears: when Deng Yanda was arrested, how Mr. Li Dazhao was arrested...
When Qian Zhuangfei and his wife exchanged those secrets in bed, they may not know that their little daughter who pretended to be asleep was listening to these thrilling things with her ears open.
Families like them who work underground always have some unimaginable hardships that others can't imagine, and for a while the Qian family suddenly moved from a dilapidated bungalow to a bungalow, took a chartered car, and the family was full of doors, and the traffic was endless.
But the life of the Qian family is indeed as the article writes, living a very poor life, Qian Zhuangfei and his wife were initially just graduated from medical university, and they were working underground, all in order to cover up the underground identity, the whole family can only rely on practicing medicine to make a living, children drop out of school is also a common thing, who can think that the family living in the bungalow eats stick noodles?
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In Li Lili's heart, her father Qian Zhuangfei is a genius, proficient in radio, practicing medicine, painting, calligraphy, making Western food, making ice cream, and I don't know when and where he learned it, and even acting is not afraid of the stage. Qian Zhuangfei is versatile, once the choreographer of Beijing Guanghua Film, Li Lili's mother is also an actor, and their family of three has co-starred in the movie "Yanshan Xiaying".
That was Li Lili's first "electrocution", her mother played her father's mother in the movie, she played her father's sister, the plot originally arranged for Li Lili to pull Qian Zhuangfei to call her brother, and as a result, Li Lili was happy to call her father as her brother.
Mom saw that she didn't seriously run over and hit Li Lili, "pop", tears came down instantly, her mother hit it seemed to wake up Li Lili's film talent, she suddenly knew what it was like to act in a movie. For many, many years, Li Lili has been having the same dream, in which she is always running non-stop, but either she can't run or her shoes are off.
Due to the special identity of Qian Zhuangfei and his wife, Li Lili has been displaced since she was a child, lived in an orphanage, stayed in a drama class, wandered on the streets, and worked as a maid in a large household, thinking that a little girl always followed her parents to suffer crimes is not the way, after moving from Beijing to Shanghai, Qian Zhuangfei sent her daughter to the Chinese Song and Dance Troupe, the predecessor of the Mingyue Society, to learn song and dance.
When Mingyue Society performed in Nanyang, because the local regulations required people with the same surname to live together, Li Jinhui saw that this little girl was cute and pitiful, so she accepted her as a dry daughter, and Li Jinhui changed her name from Qian Zhenzhen to Li Lili. Without their parents, the other children would have made a big fuss long ago.
But Li Lili has cultivated tenacious vitality with her parents over the years, the people in the song and dance troupe all speak Shanghainese, Wang Renmei, who is about the same age as her, speaks Hunan dialect, only she speaks Beijing dialect, different places, language barriers, she can live happily anywhere, and the performance has also been recognized by the audience, as long as it is hung with her name, the performance must be full.
After the China Song and Dance Troupe merged into Lianhua Film Company, Li Lili also transferred to Lianhua to become a film actor, Lianhua had Sun Yu, Fei Mu, Bu Wancang, Jin Yan, Ruan Lingyu, Tang Tianxiu, Chen Yanyan, which can be described as a star-studded gathering, but the young Li Lili broke out of her own sky with her sweet appearance and lively personality.
In the second year of entering Lianhua, she began to receive an invitation from director Sun Yu to play with Ruan Lingyu, who was in the sky. In Sun Yu's "Gadgets", Li Lili and Ruan Lingyu play a mother and daughter, she feels that she does not know how to act, can only rely on instinct, but A Ruan can act anything.
When Li Lili played the clip where this little girl was injured and about to die, she tried her best to show the pain after the injury, but how to act was not good, Ruan Lingyu and she said: "Now your task is not to act pain, you have to find a way to endure your pain and comfort your mother." ”
Ruan Lingyu was of great help to Li Lili's performance, and by 1935, the two of them played sisters in "National Wind", but before the film was finished, Ruan Lingyu ended the curtain in advance; I don't know whether it was a heart or a fateful arrangement, Li Lili last appeared on the big screen, in the 1992 biographical film "Ruan Lingyu" filmed by Guan Jinpeng, she starred in herself.
Spanning more than half a century, it is finally the film that has drawn a satisfactory end to this friendship in light and shadow. The seniors have provided a lot of help to Li Lili, who has just entered the film world, but Li Lili's own efforts are more commendable, "swimming, driving, riding everything, that time is like now, changing an era, the rise of emerging forces, you want to have nothing to do, we want to drive the talented and beautiful people off the stage area."
Li Lili is facing a rapidly changing film era, from silent to sound, from the theme of talent and beauty to vivid and real, countless silent film actors, even including the silent film queen Ruan Lingyu, some people will not say that Chinese, some people are too sexy or delicate.
They all have deep concerns about the unknown film world because of their own conditions, so some people sink, some people die, and some people take their lives. But I have to say that this is the arrival of Li Lili's era, Li Lili grew up in Beijing, the Chinese standard is very standard, the image is fit and healthy, so the film is endless.
The director who has cooperated the most with Li Lili is Sun Yu, the two have cooperated in a total of 7 films, accounting for one-third of Sun Yu's total works, Li Lili first entered Lianhua, Sun Yu tailored a number of works for her, including "Sports Queen" that made her popular all over the country.
In addition to the popularity of the film image as an actress, as a female star, Li Lili was also the most popular star image in the society at that time, she was simple, healthy, did not like to grease and powder, which was in line with the public's expectations and imagination of new women, so the advent of a new era of movies, Li Lili quickly became the most popular female star at that time.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Lili went to the United States to study acting, and also went to Hollywood to observe, but after returning to China, she failed to show her skills in the film industry as desired, only made a "Wisdom to Huashan" to enter the Beijing Film Academy for further study, and then stayed in school to become a professor of the beijing film academy acting department, in addition to appearing in the movie "Ruan Lingyu" as her own identity, no film works came out, looking back at Li Lili's life, half left to the screen, half left to the campus.
In 2005, Li Lili, who had been legendary in this world for ninety spring and autumn, left. Some people pity that Li Lili, who returned from the United States for further study, did not have any film works in the second half of her life, which really left a lot of regrets for the film industry, but Li Lili's life written with tenacious vitality has been more wonderful than most screen movies.
Text/Yu Xin