Another old artist is gone! Bayi Film Studio film performance artist Lin Moyu passed away yesterday (July 1) at 3:38 p.m., which coincided with her birthday at the age of 96.
Lin Moyu was born in Beijing in 1924 to a poor family. In 1941, after being admitted as a clerk at the Shanghai Lyceum Photo Studio, she changed her original name "Lin Shaoyun" to "Lin Moyu", "taking the intention of making contributions to society and giving silently".
In the summer of 1942, Lin Moyu met Shangguan Yunzhu, an actress from the Chinese traveling theater troupe at the time. Lin Moyu's pure appearance and pure Chinese left a deep impression on Shangguan Yunzhu, who took the initiative to invite Lin Moyu to watch her performance, planting the seeds of performance in her heart.
Once, in a Chinese tour troupe, Lin Moyu met the leader of the troupe, Tang Huaiqiu. The latter said to her as soon as they met: "How about you come to act?" ”
In 1942, at the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Empress Theatre, the China Traveling Theater troupe performed the drama "Green Window red tears", in which Lin Moyu played the role of Qiu Qiuju, thus opening her stage performance road.
In 1944, she starred in the first film "Dreams Are Difficult to Achieve", from 1948 to 1949, Lin Moyu was invited by Datong Film Company to star in many films such as "The Demon of the Sea of People" and "Happy Heaven and Earth", and soon became popular in the film industry, known as "film and drama amphibious star".
After liberation, Lin Moyu participated in the filming of films such as "Green Lantern Complaint", "Red Chamber Eryou" and "Peace Dove" in Shanghai.
In 1977, she was transferred back to Beijing with her husband, Zhou Chu, to work at the Bayi Film Studio. She was 53 years old.
Her most glorious performance in her later years was playing Jia Mu in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" series of movies. Since 1986, she has played the graceful and generous jia mu in the 6 8-episode costume films "Dream of the Red Chamber" directed by Xie Tieli and starring Xia Jing, Tao Huimin and Liu Xiaoqing, who also won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 10th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 13th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films. When shooting that year, it was very hard, because the air in the studio was not circulating, Lin Moyu often felt chest tightness, so she always carried a bag of oxygen, and she had to inhale oxygen before filming.
For fourteen years from 1978 to 1991, she played films such as "Spring Rain Xiaoxiao", "Inside and Outside the Courtroom", "Zhiyin", "Cold Night" and "Dream of the Red Chamber", and her favorite ones were Wang Mu in "Cold Night" and Jia Mu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Due to the limitations of natural laws, I can only play the 'old lady'... But to act one is to stand one and succeed in one. ”
In 1991, Lin Moyu won the 3rd Golden Phoenix Awards Performance Society Award. In 1994, she participated in the costume drama "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in which she played Wu Guotai. In 1997, she played empress Xiaozhuang in the costume drama "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview". In 2001, Lin Moyu won the Special Honor Award at the 8th Golden Phoenix Awards.
Lin Moyu and her husband Zhou Chu have been together for 60 years, and the two have a deep love affair, and the two co-authored the book "Lantern Flowers And Memories - Memoirs of Zhou Chu and Lin Moyu", which records their acting careers and unforgettable past, which was published in 2006. Lin Moyu's husband died when she was 79 years old, and then she declined her children's requests to take care of her life and lived in a nursing home in Tianjin until her death.
Lu Xiaoya, director of Emei Film Studio, said that he will always miss the pleasant cooperation with Lin Moyu in the 1981 film "Inside and Outside the Court", "Your gentle and kind treatment, deep and rigorous creative attitude and indifferent professionalism have benefited me for life, and I will always miss you." Actor Liu Xiaoqing also forwarded the news of Lin Moyu's death on Weibo and wrote: Cry! Cry!
For her departure, netizens bid farewell affectionately: the old artist went all the way, and the image of Jia Mu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" will always exist!
Source: Beijing Daily client | reporter Wang Jinyue
Edit: Jin Liwei
Process Editor: Wu Yue