Hollywood in the United States is the paradise of many stars' dreams, in the Republic of China period, there was a Chinese actress, she with her own efforts, stepped into the world that belonged to white people.
However, when she managed to make a name for herself in Hollywood, she suddenly looked back and found that she was still an outsider.
The Chinese actress's name is Huang Liushuang, and she is the first Asian-Chinese actress in Hollywood.
Huang Liushuang was born in Los Angeles in 1905 to a third-generation Chinese immigrant to the United States.
Although Huang Liushuang came to the United States to pan for gold since his grandfather, there is no gold to be found in the United States, and the generation of Huang Liushuang's father is still poor.
Huang Liushuang's original name was Huang Amei, and her parents opened a laundromat in Los Angeles, getting up early all day and being dark, hard and busy, but not making a few dollars.
Huang Liushuang's parents have a total of 8 children, Huang Liushuang is the second oldest, she has been working for her parents in the laundromat since she was a child.
Due to the poor family and the low culture of Huang Liushuang, her parents have no other expectations of her, only hoping that this daughter can grow up smoothly, and then marry a man who has her share and spend her life safely.
In those days, poor people had such a little dream...
However, Huang Liushuang did not move forward according to her parents' arrangement, and she chose a bumpy and bumpy movie dream.
At that time, the film industry was in a period of development and development, American film companies often went to Chinatown to shoot, and the young Huang Liushuang was always busy sneaking around and quietly running to the shooting site to watch...
"What the hell are those people doing, and why are they walking around?"
The young Yellow Willow Cream had a big question mark in her heart, she was curious, she wanted to find out, but she couldn't know the answer.
So Huang Liushuang ran home and asked her family, and her father told her that she was making a movie.
"It's amazing to make a movie."
From that moment on, Huang Liushuang planted a movie dream in her heart, and she fantasized that she could also go to the street and shoot a movie.
Huang Liushuang's father knew about wanting to make a movie, and he told his daughter loudly that filming was not what a serious girl should do.
Her father's firm opposition did not make Huang Liushuang flinch, but strengthened her determination to break into the film industry.
In 1919, at the age of 17, Huang Liushuang was lucky enough to get a role, she played an anonymous British mistress in the American film "Red Lantern".
It was Huang Liushuang's first electrocution, her Chinese girl's face, her innocent performance, which impressed the film company...
The Hollywood Film Company decided to make this "Chinese doll" their cash cow.
In 1924, at the invitation of Douglas van Punk, Huang Liushuang starred in the American film The Baghdad Thief, in which she played a treacherous Mongol slave.
In 1927, Huang Liushuang was released in the American film "Old San Francisco", this time playing a Chinese prostitute in the film.
Both films achieved great success in the United States, and Huang Liushuang also appeared on the cover of the sixteenth issue of the "Good Friend Pictorial" in 1927.
Huang Liushuang made a name for herself in Hollywood, but the Chinese in the United States did not like her.
The Chinese in the United States believe that Huang Liushuang's role in the film is either a mistress, a slave, or a prostitute, which is simply insulting Chinese.
In fact, Huang Liushuang wants to take on these roles, but as a low Chinese, she has no choice...
The boss of the Hollywood studio once explicitly told her that she would either play these roles as required by the company, or she would hurry up and quit the film industry.
Huang Liushuang listened to this and lowered her head, she did not say a word, and the Caucasian people around her were watching her jokes.
"Hmm, what qualifications does a yellow girl have to pick and choose?"
The xenophobicity of the film company and the insults of the Chinese in the United States made Huang Liushuang feel at a loss.
In 1928, Huang Liushuang left Hollywood and went to Europe to develop.
But can Europe really find its own cinematic dreams?
When Huang Liushuang thought of this, he couldn't help but shiver...
In the United Kingdom, Huang Liushuang made a total of 5 films and won a lot of praise.
In 1929, Huang Liushuang starred in the British film "Dream of Prosperity in Chinatown", which was the last silent film she starred in.
As soon as "Chinatown Prosperous Dream" was launched, it caused a sensation throughout Britain.
The major theaters, cafes and restaurants in the United Kingdom are promoting this movie, and Huang Liushuang was also invited to attend the British royal banquet with this film, which can be described as fame and fortune, and the limelight is the same.
In 1930, At the invitation of Paramount Pictures, Huang Liushuang decided to leave Europe and return to Hollywood to shoot films.
After Huang Liushuang returned to the United States, her situation was still bad, and she was cursed for starring in the movie "Dragon Girl".
Chinese all feel that Huang Liushuang sold her soul in order to become famous, according to the meaning of the American film company, deliberately ugly Chinese on the big screen, such a woman is simply unforgivable.
In the face of all kinds of accusations, Huang Liushuang was powerless to refute it, and she decided not to be at the mercy of the film company, and she wanted to make some high-quality films to save her image among the Chinese.
But Huang Liushuang is only a Chinese actress, her fate is not in her own hands, and the boss of the film company still asks her to play a role without nutrition.
In 1932, Huang Liushuang co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in the American film "Shanghai Express", which made its premiere in the United States with a box office of $3.7 million.
In the film, the white actress is brilliant, and Huang Liushuang can only play the Qinglou woman in the red mansion curtain.
"Another Qinglou woman, this woman has not been saved!"
The Chinese people's dissatisfaction with HuangLiushuang is deepening, and Huangliushuang, who is physically and mentally exhausted, wants to cry without tears.
Can't you really meet a good role?
Huang Liushuang is not reconciled to this, she wants to fight against the white world...
Shortly after the release of the movie "Shanghai Express", Huang Liushuang starred in the first American film set in Shanghai, "The Grand Hotel", in which she played the female number two.
However, when the film was released in Shanghai, Huang Liushuang was surprised to find that she was deliberately omitted from the film's promotion.
The angry Yellow Willow Frost wants to ask for an explanation, but who can give her justice?
"No, I'm not going to give up."
The stubborn Yellow Willow Frost decided to give it a go, she did not believe that she could not fight fate.
In January 1936, the Nobel Prize-winning work "The Earth", written by the famous American female writer Pearl Buck, was to be adapted into a movie in the United States.
Huang Liushuang has always loved Pearl Buck's work, and she knows that this film depicts the style of a real Chinese woman.
Huang Liushuang actively fought for the heroine of the movie "The Land", but she eventually failed, because she was a Chinese woman.
It turns out that no matter how hard you try, in the end, you are still an outsider.
Disheartened, Huang Liushuang began to tire of Hollywood, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame was beautiful, but such beauty did not belong to Chinese stars.
"I am Chinese, and my roots are in China."
Huang Liushuang wants to go to China, and no matter how good the United States is, it is not her home.
In 1936, Huang Liushuang came to China on a cruise ship, and she was greeted by more than applause.
Her epitaph should read "This is her 1,000 deaths." ”
In the face of ridicule from the Chinese media, Huang Liushuang never defended, she only wanted to kiss the land.
Of course, in China, Huang Liushuang also had a happy time, and she was warmly received by Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera, and Butterfly, the "Queen of Movies".
Huang Liushuang saw the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland, she sincerely liked her motherland, and felt ashamed of the film with the nature of "insulting China".
"My roots are always in China!"
Huang Liushuang, who returned to the United States from China, no longer takes on films that damage Chinese image, and she aspires to become a true Chinese.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, Huang Liushuang worried about the safety of her motherland day and night, and in 1942 she filmed the anti-Japanese propaganda films "Burmese Bomb" and "Lady Chongqing".
Huang Liushuang also used her influence in the United States to shout out for the suffering motherland, calling on overseas Chinese to donate enthusiastically, and donated all the remuneration for "Burma Bomb" and "Lady Chongqing" to the China United Relief Society.
Unfortunately, Huang Liushuang's efforts did not win the understanding of those around her, and during Song Meiling's visit to the United States in 1942, almost all overseas Chinese celebrities were invited, but Huang Liushuang was omitted.
Because in the eyes of Song Meiling, although Huang Liushuang is a Chinese actress, the movies she starred in are detrimental to the national character, and it is really difficult to climb the elegant hall.
Huang Liushuang, who had not received the invitation, was very sad, and she could only swallow the bitterness silently and pretend to be indifferent...
Huang Liushuang was no longer at the mercy of the American film company, and the American film company abandoned her.
Huang Liushuang, who had no drama to shoot, looked at the brilliant starry sky and smiled helplessly.
The only relief for Huang Liushuang was that she used her film salary to support her family, and her siblings all received higher education and became a decent middle class.
Only Yellow Willow Frost ran around for half a lifetime, with nothing, even love passed by...
Huang Liushuang has only been in love once in her life, and her lover is the filmmaker Mickey. Nyland.
They loved each other deeply, but they could not marry because white people could not marry Chinese girls.
In 1961, the lonely Yellow Willow Frost died of a heart attack, a tear hanging from the corner of her eye, and she was only 56 years old.
Huang Liushuang is a legend forgotten by history, as the first Chinese actress in Hollywood, she strives to swim upstream, not afraid of hardships, but unfortunately, she was not born at the right time, only to end up with people growing up to hate the water...
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