Among the beautiful old Shanghai beach actresses, there is only one person, who is known as the standard beauty of the East. She is not Hu Die, nor Zhou Xuan, but an ordinary girl named Xu Xiaomei, whose scientific name is Xu Jiefeng.
Although the name is very ordinary, Xu Xiaomei is not willing to be an ordinary person, she likes to sing and dance. At the age of 18, she was preparing to apply for the Chinese Song and Dance School. Here she met Lai Kam-fai.
Who is Lai Kam-fai? Is the principal of this school, 18 years older than Xu Xiaomei, the first time he saw Xu Xiaomei, he admired this girl, and also gave her a stage name, "the breeze is gentle, the water waves are not happy" in Xu Lai.
In 1928, Li Jinhui led his own Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe to Nanyang to tour, because to avoid the laws of Nanyang, the two pretended to be husband and wife, at that time Li Jinhui was a middle-aged gentleman, Xu Lai was a fledgling girl, miao miao cute, known as "standard beauty", the uncle and the girl were inseparable all day long, the fate of the two was thus concluded, and it was logical to develop a romantic story.
In the process of touring, the beautiful Xu Lai naturally became famous and became a beautiful woman of the Mingyue Society that major newspapers competed to report.
At this time, it happened that sound films were rising, and in 1933, the owner of the Star Pictures Company invited Xu Lai to join and promised to build her into a second pillar like the film queen Hu Die, and Xu Lai gladly accepted the invitation.
In that year, she filmed his debut work "Residual Spring", the plot of "Residual Spring" is not very good in today's words, it can be said that it is very jumpy, but the shot of "Xu Lai out of the bath" in the film caused a sensational topic, so she became a hit.
I have to say that sometimes red is unreasonable, this oriental standard beauty also made a name for itself, but the troubles that followed also came, Xu Lai's husband Li Jinhui's career frequently failed, it can be said that he lost everything, and even had to ask Xu lai for money to spend.
The two people with different ideas formally divorced in 1935, and the affectionate Lai Jinhui divided all the property under his name into Xu Lai's name. At this time, Xu Lai was already in contact with her second husband, Tang Shengming.
Later, stimulated by Ruan Lingyu's suicide, Xu Lai decided to completely withdraw from the film industry, and from 1933 to 1935, Xu Lai shot a total of eight films, from "Residual Spring" to "Boat Girl", making him famous. Although she quit the film world, her story continues.
Her second husband treasoned against the enemy, and she has always followed her husband, because she was a star before, so she was generous, so naturally she had to bear the infamy.
Fortunately, later, when the anti-war was won, it was found that they were underground workers, and although they were infamous, this was not the hardest day of her life. During the Cultural Revolution, Xu Lai was arrested and eventually died in prison.
Wang Renmei once said that Xu Lai was dignified and beautiful, and he was a rare kindness of heart and a warm personality, but the result was not as good as people wished. All in all, this standard beauty finally ended up with a grievance.