Wei Heling (1907-1979) was a native of Tianjin. The older generation of film and theater performance artists in our country. In his decades of screen career, he has created dozens of charismatic roles, of which "Road Angel", "My Life", "Blessing" and "Home" are the most famous. Zhao Dan, a famous actor of his friend, very accurately and objectively evaluated Wei Heling's performance: there is Chinese style, rigid and soft, thick and thin, without any mannerisms"
The 1934 black-and-white feature film "Road Angel" directed by Yuan Muzhi, starring Wei Heling and Zhao Dan and Zhou Xuan, is known as a realist classic masterpiece in the history of Chinese cinema. Wei Heling plays Lao Wang, who sells newspapers for a living.
During the creation of this character, he observed various small characters. The inner world of Lao Wang was very accurate. It is also because "Road Angel" has become one of Wei Heling's representative works.
Group photo of Wei Heling and Zhao Dan and others in "Road Angel"
In "Road Angel", Zhou Xuan played the touching Little Red of Chuchu
In 1956, the Beijing Film Studio filmed the color feature film "Blessing" based on Lu Xun's novel of the same name, and specially invited Sang Arc, a famous choreographer of the Shanghai Film Studio, to direct the film.
The heroine of "Blessing" Xiang Lin is played by Bai Yang. Wei Heling played He Laoliu, wei Heling portrayed Lu Xun's honest, thick and simple He Laoliu with a restrained and silent performance of animals, and portrayed the characters very impressively.
Wei Heling played Lao Zhao in Shi Hui's "My Life"
The old lady in the film adaptation of Barkin's novel of the same name, "Home"
Wei Heling has achieved great achievements in film art. But married life has been full of twists and turns. His last wife, Yuan Rong, was only an art editor at the Shanghai Film Studio. But her family is very good. Yuan Rong, whose original name was Yuan Shirong, was the first president of the Republic of China, and later announced that he was the cousin of Yuan Shikai, the "Hongxian Emperor". Yuan Rong's father was a member of the League, and her mother was Japanese. Her father was emperor for 83 days because he hated Yuan Shikai for signing the "Twenty-One Articles" traitorous treaty. In a fit of rage, he changed his daughter Yuan Shirong to Yuan Rong.
Yuan Rong's family is well-off. Originally a student of the Oil Painting Department of Suzhou Fine Arts College, he planned to study abroad after graduation. However, the War of Resistance broke out, and soon met Wei Heling, who was already a big star. Although she knew that Wei Heling had been married twice, and that the two were twelve years apart, she still came together with him without hesitation. In 1940, Wei Heling and Yuan Rong held a grand wedding in Chongqing. The witness is the famous writer Guo Moruo.
Wei Heling and Yuan Rong have lived a married life of more than forty years through ups and downs. Yuan Rong, a former "princess of the imperial family and relatives of the state", raised more than a dozen children for Wei Heling's large sons, some born of his ex-wife, some born out of wedlock, and several of whom she herself had raised. Bind them together with great maternal love.