[Author: Ye Gongzi] Chapter 309
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01 The happy life of Xia Meng and Shi Hui
In the 1950s, Great Wall Films was definitely the "leading boss" of Hong Kong's Chinese films.
Its predecessor was the "Great Wall Film Company", and later under the rectification of Yuan Yang'an, a senior student at soochow University Law School, the "New Great Wall" was established, named "Great Wall Film Production Co., Ltd."
At that time, the Great Wall Film included almost all the well-known screenwriters and actors in Hong Kong, including Tao Qin, Jin Yong, Zha Liangjing, Zhu Ke, etc., and the actors included Xia Meng, Chen Juanjuan, Shi Hui, Chen Sisi, Gong Qiuxia, etc.
Among the actresses, Xia Meng, Shi Hui and Chen Sisi are known as the "Three Princesses of the Great Wall". The eldest princess is as beautiful as a peach and plum, the second princess is elegant like a blue, and the third princess is as delicate as a rose, and each has its own characteristics.
"Grand Princess" Xia Meng became popular in 1951 for "Forbidden Marriage", and later starred in "Evil Sea Flower", which was the first work in the history of Hong Kong cinema to participate in an international film festival.
Xia Meng's appearance, acting skills and reputation are good, and she has been very clean and self-sufficient since her debut. She even set herself a rule that "no ribbon cutting, no dinner appointments, and no unhealthy content" for herself.
Later, Xia Meng and Lin Baocheng, who graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai, got married, and the two did business together, trusted each other, and had a very stable emotional life. In 1967, due to the influence of the current situation, the couple moved to Canada.
Elegant summer dreams
"Second Princess" Shi Hui, who has studied piano and ballet since childhood, has a temperament like an orchid, elegant and charming. She joined the Great Wall in 1951 and became famous for starring in "A Family Spring". After becoming famous, Shi Hui did not satisfy the status quo, but began to learn screenwriting and directing, and her husband Qinse and Ming, very affectionate.
Shi Hui's husband is Fu Qi, a high-caliber student at St. John's University in Shanghai, and although he studied civil engineering, he was extremely fond of literature and art. In 1952, he abandoned work and joined the Great Wall Film, becoming an actor.
Fu Qi's first film was "Honeymoon" with Shi Hui, and then cooperated in many movies, and the two came together because of the drama.
Temperament like Lan Shihui
Fu Qi is also a talented person who can write and write, and can not only act but also write and direct. After marrying Shi Hui, the two worked together to take care of the family, and they were imprisoned together for more than a year, which can be regarded as a couple in distress. However, for many years, the two have been qinser and ming, and they have been in love.
Xia Meng and Shi Hui's marriage is very successful, but the emotional road of "Third Princess" Chen Sisi is full of twists and turns.
"Audrey Hepburn of China" Chen Sisi
02 Third Princess Chen Sisi
Among the "Three Princesses of the Great Wall", Chen Sisi is the youngest, and because of her looks, she is also called "Audrey Hepburn of China" by fans.
Born in Shanghai in 1938 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, she moved to Hong Kong with her family at the age of 15.
In the 1950s, the situation in Shanghai was turbulent, and families with a little bit of family background were arranging escape routes. The Chen family has a good family foundation, and naturally put the relocation on the agenda.
Chen Sisi
After arriving in Hong Kong, Chen Sisi was arranged by his family to study at Joan of Arc Secondary School in Hong Kong. The 15-year-old Chen Sisi caused a sensation as soon as she entered the school, because she was beautiful, stylish, modern, and very educated.
After Chen Sisi and the classmates around her became acquainted, someone suggested that she apply for an art school, because with her appearance conditions, she would definitely become a big star.
At first, Chen Sisi did not take the words of her classmates to heart at all, because her ideal was to be a teacher or flight attendant. Later, the Great Wall Film Company recruited new people, and Chen Sisi's friends dragged her to sign up, and she was discovered by the Great Wall.
In 1954, Chen Sisi officially entered the Hong Kong Great Wall Film Company, and successively starred in films such as "Ming Feng", "Red Lantern", "Three Laughs" and other movies, her handsome appearance and dashing performance won the love of the audience, thus stepping into the list of "Three Princesses of the Great Wall".
In the hearts of many fans, Chen Sisi has always been the "Jade Girl Little Autumn Fragrance" with clear and big eyes in their hearts, and its appearance of Qiu Xiang is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and no one can match.
Even Qin Yi, a well-known actor in the mainland, once said: "Although I have not cooperated with her, I have talked with her once, and what impressed me the most is her eyes, and the eyes are her soul." ”
Chen Sisi has been debuting for more than ten years and has starred in more than thirty movies, which is an indelible memory in the hearts of movie fans.
Three-laugh poster
In the early 1980s, "Three Laughs" was released in the mainland, and Chen Sisi's fame immediately spread to the mainland. Her smart eyes, pink face and springy appearance, and graceful and colorful figure have won the hearts of a large number of fans.
The sensational effect of "Three Laughs" in the mainland is by no means comparable to that of a blockbuster now, and many viewers have even left a "sisi complex" and will never forget Chen Sisi's face for life.
Three laughs stills
With the "Autumn Fragrance" fire in the mainland, Chen Sisi became a household name, and even the Spring Festival Gala issued an invitation to Chen Sisi in 1984. Although Chen Sisi was 30 years older than "Qiu Xiang" in the movie when she appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, the audience was still extremely enthusiastic about her.
Although Chen Sisi is very successful in his career, he has experienced many twists and turns in his feelings, and has always made movie fans relish it.
03 Takato and Lottie
In 1959, Chen Sisi and the well-known actor Gao Yuan collaborated on two films, "Golden Beauty" and "Feiyan Yingchun". Chen Sisi's lofty posture, superb acting skills and magnetic voice deeply attracted Chen Sisi. And Gao Yuan was also attracted by Chen Sisi's moving eyes and cheerful personality, secretly feeling affectionate, and secretly came together.
Gao Yuan, born in 1933, formerly known as Jiang Jiaqi, is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Because his parents and aunt are both lovers of Peking Opera, he has also been quite affected since he was a child.
Gao Yuan studied at the Harbin Physical Education School, not only liked sports, but also was a theater lover in school, often acting in dramas.
In 1953, Gao Yuan traveled from his hometown to Hong Kong to visit his uncle Jiang Shi and his aunt, and then stayed in Hong Kong and embarked on the road of film.
Lofty
Gao Yuan's uncle Jiang Shi is a cinematographer who has shot many well-known films. Aunt Arbitrary is the daughter of the famous director Ren Pengnian and the martial arts actress Wu Lizhu.
At that time, Gao Yuan was just 18 years old, because of perennial sports, he was handsome and tall. The aunt arbitrarily felt that Gao Yuan was very suitable for being a film actor, so she left Gao Yuan in Hong Kong.
Subsequently, his aunt arranged for him to go to the film company for an interview, and later signed up for the Hong Kong Phoenix Film Company.
Since 1954, Gao Yuan has filmed a number of acclaimed and well-received movies, and he has also become the "boss" of Phoenix Pictures.
Gao Yuan has cooperated with well-known actresses such as Xia Meng, Shi Hui, Chen Sisi, and Lottie, and has played many unforgettable roles.
"Golden Eagle" starring Gao Yuan is also the first blockbuster film in Hong Kong to break through the million mark, and he also has a "million students" name.
In 1957, Gao Yuan and Lottie met for filming "Wind and Dust", and Gao Yuan's polite appearance and talented temperament deeply attracted Letty, thus secretly feeling affection.
Gao Yuan, on the other hand, was also attracted to this beauty, and the two began to communicate frequently.
For many years, Great Wall Pictures has been dominated by "positive films", and some films cannot be released at all after shooting. And Letty, since signing a contract with the Great Wall in 1952, although he has shot many movies, he has not been released for various "behind the scenes" reasons, resulting in Lottie's fame has not been opened.
Lottie
In Great Wall Pictures, Lottie has been suppressed by the three princesses, and has not gotten a good role, has been sullen and unhappy, and has a great sense of nostalgia.
In 1958, After the expiration of Lottie's contract, he transferred to the Great Wall's nemesis "Shaw Film Company" and became the royal heroine of Li Hanxiang, and successively filmed many films such as "The Deformed Woman", "Summer Rose", "Dream of the Red Chamber" and so on.
After Letty switched to Shaw, he was busy with work every day and the time spent with Gao Yuan was decreasing, and a gap appeared between the two.
Just at this time, Chen Sisi, one of the "Three Princesses of the Great Wall", came to the top and cooperated with Gao Yuan in two consecutive films, and the two came together.
04 Married to Gao Yuan in the name of Xiao San
Gao Yuan and Lottie's love affair is widely known, and without announcing their breakup, he turned around and talked to Chen Sisi about love. For a time, the outside world angrily scolded Chen Sisi as a "third party", which discredited Chen Sisi.
However, the love of the two young people was inseparable, and they did not care about the outside world at all, and Chen Sisi married Gao Yuan in february 1961 in the name of "Little Three".
The two walked from the screen to the stage and lived a married life of chai rice oil and salt.
Gao Yuan and Chen Sisi
Actress Lotty, on the other hand, married Shaw actor Chen Hou in early 1962. However, their marriage was very short-lived, and Lottie caught Chen Hou and other women in bed and divorced in 1967.
Mr. Qian Zhongshu said: Marriage is a besieged city, and people who are outside want to go in, and people who are inside want to come out.
This sentence can also be seen in the marriage of Gao Yuan and Chen Sisi.
After marriage, Chen Sisi and Gao Yuan were busy making movies, but with the passage of time, some things quietly changed.
After the outbreak of the movement, the "activist" film companies in Hong Kong stopped filming, and Chen Sisi and Gao Yuan's ideas also diverged.
Chen Sisi decided to take the side of the "activists" to the end, even if he wasted his acting career, he would never betray the "activists". Gao Yuan, on the other hand, believes that art is more important and cannot be destroyed because of politics.
In 1967, Gao Yuan's contract with Phoenix expired, and he offered a salary increase to 5,000 yuan. At that time, 5,000 yuan was already the highest top salary for male stars in the film industry, and Phoenix Pictures rejected this request in one bite.
Subsequently, Gao Yuan contacted Shao many times and expressed his intention to break away from the "positives".
Chen Sisi was very disapproving of Gao Yuan's approach, knowing that once her husband joined the Shao family, there were only two endings between her and Gao Yuan: one was that she stayed in the Great Wall, and she divorced Gao Yuan; and the other was that she and Gao Yuan went to the Shaw family together.
In order not to violate their inner beliefs, Chen Sisi and Gao Yuan began to quarrel frequently over this matter.
After leaving Phoenix Pictures, Gao Yuan had not yet found a good home, and suddenly became an unemployed vagrant. At this time, Leti, who had already gained a foothold in Shaw,walked up to Gao Yuan again and actively helped him contact Shaw, hoping that he could enter Shaw's camp.
At first, Letty wanted Gao Yuan to join her shareholding company "Golden Eagle Pictures", but this company was weak and could not take on a figure like Gao Yuan, so she had to actively push Gao Yuan to Shaw's side.
As everyone knows, Lottie's approach not only did not play a helping role, but also caused Chen Sisi and Gao Yuan to have a more fierce conflict.
Due to the frequent exchanges between Gao Yuan and Lottie, the outside world gradually issued the saying that "Gao Yuan and Lottie's old love rekindled".
The first on the right is Lottie
Chen Sisi was very angry after he knew it, and he was worried about Gao Yuan's things every day, and even sleep became a problem.
During that time, Chen Sisi had to use sleeping pills to treat insomnia. Suddenly, one day, after taking sleeping pills, Chen Sisi actually quoted a large amount of liquor, causing him to faint at home and be rushed to the hospital.
After this incident, the outside world unanimously believed that Gao Yuan was too careful, resulting in "Chen Sisi committing suicide for love". But the reason for this is not so simple at all.
Gao Yuan saw Chen Sisi's approach and proposed the idea of "keeping a distance" with Lottie.
Unexpectedly, on December 27, 1968, Lottie committed suicide at home without her young daughter.
After the news came out, shocked inside and outside, the police found after an autopsy that she was taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
Some people speculate that it was Lottie who accidentally took too many sleeping pills; some people speculated that it was The lofty wandering that caused Lottie to commit suicide for love; others speculated that it was because of political reasons that lottie committed suicide.
Either way, a young woman who was only 31 years old died.
Someone once summed up the two men around Letty in one sentence: Chen Hou could not express high hopes, and Gao Yuan could not look far ahead.
05
After Letty's death, Chen Sisi and Gao Yuan also lived a relatively stable life, but unexpectedly, the appearance of a woman once again broke their peaceful life.
Shortly after Letty's death, Gao Yuan met a new girlfriend who was rumored to be very similar to Lottie. Subsequently, the new girlfriend unexpectedly became pregnant and gave birth to a child.
After Chen Sisi knew, he was full of grief and indignation, and after starring in a rather verbal movie "I Don't Want a Divorce", he and Gao Yuan officially went through divorce procedures in 1970.
After the divorce, Chen Sisi raised his daughter alone, and Gao Yuan was not happy to stay in Shao. First, because Letty committed suicide, the spearhead was all pointed at him, and many people in the Shaw clan were hostile to him; second, Chen Sisi was not in the Shaw clan, and no one could protect him anymore, and he became the target of everyone.
Subsequently, Gao Yuan gradually gave up his film career and turned to the shopping mall, appearing only occasionally in movies.
In 1973, Gao Yuan separated from his girlfriend, who looked similar to Lottie, and had frequent contact with Chen Sisi again. The two had rumors of reconciliation, but in the end they ended up with "Gao Yuan's departure from Taiwan".
In this way, the marriage between Chen Sisi and Gao Yuan was completely over.
After the divorce, Chen Sisi actively made a comeback to prepare for raising her daughter alone.
Just when Gao Yuan and Chen Sisi's marriage was in chaos, Gao Yuan's uncle Jiang Shi also divorced from arbitrary reasons for emotional discord.
After the divorce, Jiang Shi put his energy into his work and shot a number of movies, so Chen Sisi, who came back to film, became a frequent friend with Jiang Shi.
Later, Jiang Shi and Chen Sisi secretly had feelings, but they did not dare to be together for fear of causing an uproar from the outside world.
Or Jiang Shi's obligation to reflect on the statement that "as long as the two people can live in peace, they are not afraid of anything", Chen Sisi was relieved to announce the relationship between the two to the outside world.
From the nephew's wife to the uncle's wife, this change can be regarded as shocking.
The two were very low-key when they got married, and almost no one knows about it. Subsequently, Chen Sisi stopped thinking about the shadow, and Jiang Shi also took less and less work, and the two only lived in peace. The two returned to Shanghai in 1980 to settle down, and have since been away from Hong Kong.
In 1984, Chen Sisi was invited to become the host of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which made the mainland audience overjoyed.
In 1993, Chen Sisi once again attended the "Shanghai Changfeng New Film Retrospective Exhibition" held in Shanghai. This was her last appearance to the outside world.
On October 7, 2007, Chen Sisi died at the age of 69 at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai.
In this way, Chen Sisi, who is known as "China Audrey Hepburn", will forever remain in the hearts of movie fans.
Looking back on the "Three Laughs" of that year, Chen Sisi really gave people a kind of "amazing" beauty, her classical elegance, foreign and lively, and her moving figure will always become the "little autumn fragrance" in the hearts of movie fans.
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PS: This article is too difficult to write, too many things can not be expressed directly, and it also involves a lot of sensitive topics. I think this article is too narrow, can only write some feelings, can not start from the perspective of faith, it is too LWO.
Original author: Ye Gongzi
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