At the MET GALA, the fashion industry's biggest fight that just ended two days ago, all kinds of gods and immortals have done their best to become the eye-catching darlings of the entertainment headlines.
This time, the theme is "America: A Dictionary of Fashion", and of course, it pays tribute to the classic style.
Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn are the gods of the West, and naturally some people are competing to perform, but I did not expect that the yellow willow cream also "appeared" in this festival.
Gemma Chan's hair is tied into a low bun, and the black dress sewn with a dragon totem is a classic photo of the yellow willow cream.
Coincidentally, at the recent dance, Ju Xiaowen also restored the appearance of yellow willow cream with the iconic hibiscus noodles of willow leaf eyebrows and cinnabar lips.
Huang Liushuang is a true "forerunner", as the first Chinese actress to leave a handprint on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she single-handedly let the Chinese wind blow on the Western stage.
Even many Chinese actresses have the confidence to break through Hollywood because of her precedent.
"Yellow Willow Cream" in the American drama "Hollywood"
Now, Chinese actresses have a lot more freedom in Hollywood than before, they can choose what kind of role to play, and they can also turn to the background to become a director.
But in Huang Liushuang's generation, the image of Chinese women in Hollywood movies can only be roughly divided into two categories: either a weak and passive "lotus baby" or a very controlling "dragon girl", and there is no choice at all.
Therefore, for the first generation of Hollywood Chinese actresses represented by Huang Liushuang, it is difficult to stand firm.
The first generation of Chinese celebrities
To be precise, Huang Liushuang should be Hollywood's first Chinese superstar. In that era, she was on a par with Bruce Lee, and it was also the beginning of a brief golden age of Asian American actors.
Born in 1905 to a Chinese family in Los Angeles, she tipped a movie to watch when she worked in her father's laundromat as a child, and this "first in her life" made her start to have a vision for the industry.
I was still young and I knew that if I failed, I would still have youth, so I decided to give myself 10 years to be a successful actor.
At that time, Chinese Americans were prejudiced in Hollywood and even in the United States, so Chinese actors could only be assigned some clowns in movies, and the ending was always dead again and again.
But even so, Huang Liushuang still did not give up the dream of becoming a great film actor. She hopes that she can make movies and have a future that is on an equal footing with white people.
She began running dragon suits in Hollywood at the age of 12, and a few years later evolved from a group to a supporting role, starring in a small role in "Red Lantern". With the discovery of her acting talent, Huang Liushuang finally received the first movie starring her- "The Death of the Sea".
Although she did not systematically study acting, she had a high level of understanding, and some media at the time said that she had "reached the level of a master".
Some say the film is like a remake of Madame Butterfly, a typical early Orientalist interpretation that over-shows the fragility and forbearance of women. But the reason why people can still watch it is that the yellow willow cream is really beautiful.
At this time, Huang Liushuang was just 17 years old, and although her cheeks were a little tender, her silhouette was clear and smooth, and she would not be crushed by the aura when wearing gorgeous Chinese costumes.
Even if the film development technology at that time was not very good, there were only a few monotonous color systems in the picture, and her brilliance could still be seen.
Later, she starred as a fragrant Mongolian maid in "The Thief of Baghdad", and the thick Qi bangs, dark Dan phoenix eyes, and slender eyebrows have become her most distinctive symbols.
She wears a bandeau and shorts, and her feminine body is in full view, which is simply a capital sexy.
Although Huang Liushuang had never played a leading role before the age of 20, she became famous and became one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood.
Later, she chose to go to Europe to develop during the bottleneck period of her career, and with her super high language talent, she soon learned to act in French and German, and was therefore loved by the European film and television circles, starring in many works, including the British classic film "Chinatown Prosperous Dream" in the silent film era.
"Chinatown Bustling Dream"
Three years later, America's attitude toward The Chinese began to change, and Huang Liushuang returned to Hollywood and ushered in the peak of her career. Broadway's stage play "On the spot", as well as the film "Dragon Girl" and "Shanghai Express" and other representative works were completed at this time.
In "Dragon Girl", her beautiful, charming, and bold image of a wicked woman amazed everyone, and even the gorgeous cheongsam set off a boom in the fashion world, when many talented designers regarded her as their inspiration muse.
But although her position gradually stabilized, in the environment that the Chinese Exclusion Act had not yet been abolished, the roles she took over were basically "bad women" with stereotypes, and the roles of prostitutes, lovers, and spies could not be avoided when they came and went.
So that in the eyes of many Chinese people, she is like a beam-jumping clown.
Although she gave many public speeches, sold clothes and jewelry during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and donated her film remuneration to support the Chinese War of Resistance;
And although she later refused to take on any more insulting roles and pushed away many invitations, in the eyes of everyone, those pasts in the chaotic world are still stains that she can't wash away.
Even when Song Meiling visited the United States in 1942, she was specifically instructed not to invite Huang Liushuang to attend any public activities.
She has been desperately trying to break free all her life, whether it is the prejudice against Hollywood and the prejudice of the Chinese people against her, but until the year she died at the age of 56, she did not achieve her wishes.
"From the age of 14, Huang Liushuang tried her best to surpass her own era, but she was covered by the net of the times until her death." ——World Chinese Weekly
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