As the most popular art form in the world today, movies are deeply loved by people, and with the continuous development of film art, many film practitioners have become well-known stars.
In the eyes of many people, the so-called movie stars are just a group of well-dressed and well-paid dramas, but in fact, it is not the same, and there are also great people among movie stars.
For example, Bruce Lee, the first Chinese male star in Hollywood, in the era of deep discrimination against chinese in the last century, with his own efforts, contributed many excellent movies to the people of the world, and also promoted kung fu to the world, changing the ancient image of foreigners on Chinese.
On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the names of more than 2,000 celebrities since the birth of the film are engraved, of which four Chinese names are listed: Huang Liushuang, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Liu Yuling. Huang Liushuang, the first person in the ranking, is the first female star to become famous in Hollywood, and the author believes that her merits are not worse than Bruce Lee's.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Chinese woman in the silent film</h1>
Photography came out in 1839, a year before the Opium War, and chinese society's entertainment was still stuck in shadow puppetry, and a group of Western scientists had already created techniques that could freeze pictures.
Early photography, because of the backward equipment, can only take a long exposure way to shoot pictures, with the continuous improvement of technology, continuous shooting became possible, the film art form was born.
The development of film has experienced the era of silent film, because people can not yet load sound onto film, although it is only a picture without sound, but silent film is still because of its powerful charm spread, film master Chaplin's early works, are silent film.
The film was originally born in Europe, but suffered setbacks due to the outbreak of the First World War and was widely developed on the American continent. After 1910, a small town in Los Angeles, California, gradually became a paradise for world cinema, which is Hollywood.
Hollywood-produced movies soon swept the United States and became the most important form of entertainment for the American people, and a Chinese girl living in California became interested in movies after watching a movie for the first time, vowing to become a movie star, she was Huang Liushuang.
Huang Liushuang is a third-generation Chinese, his grandfather is a native of Taishan, Guangdong, China, after the rise of the gold rush in the United States, he went to California to pan for gold and settled down.
Fascinated by movies, Huang Liushuang often goes to the cinema to see movies, and she also runs to the filming site of the movies to ask various questions to the film crew, and she even takes the initiative to ask the director to participate in the performance.
At the age of 14, Huang Liushuang finally got the opportunity to participate in the film, she played an English mistress in the American movie "Red Lantern". Huang Liushuang, who appeared in the movie for the first time, did not even deserve a name, but it made her very happy.
At the age of 17, Huang Liushuang became a hit with the movie "The Death of the Sea" and became a household name for female stars. The huge film remuneration also completely changed the life of their family, Huang Liushuang did not put up a shelf like today's stars, but always lived with her family and took on the cost of the education of her brothers and sisters, because she, the eight brothers and sisters in the family, all received higher education except herself.
Although Huang Liushuang is on fire, it cannot change the stereotype of Chinese in Americans. Throughout the twentieth century, the era when "white supremacy" was at its peak, and in their eyes, the status of the yellow race was even inferior to that of blacks, and the Early Immigrants were known as pigs.
Don't look at Huang Liushuang is just a teenage girl, but she has her own ideas, since the Americans are not optimistic about the Chinese, then I will not develop in the United States, Huang Liushuang also came to Europe to develop her own film career here.
Coming to Europe, she has also starred in the heroine of several movies, achieved spatial success, and was also invited to attend the British royal banquet, but Huang Liushuang still felt disappointed, it turned out that the white people in the world are the same, and they have hidden discrimination against the Chinese in their bones. After careful consideration, Huang Liushuang returned to Hollywood again and decided to change the white people's concept of Chinese through his own efforts.
Returning to Hollywood, Huang Liushuang participated in many movies and her career was thriving, in 1931, she and the Japanese actor Hayakawa Xuezhou starred in the film "Dragon Girl" was released, the response was unprecedented; in 1932, the American film "Shanghai Express" co-starring marlene Dedley was released and achieved good box office results.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > returned to China to find roots</h1>
Huang Liushuang thought that her achievements could slightly change the attitude of Americans towards the Chinese, however, this was not the case, in 1932, the "Grand Hotel" set in Shanghai, China, was released in Shanghai, and she played the female number one in the movie, and was again deliberately omitted because of the discrimination of the Americans.
In 1936, after living in China for a long time and finally winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pearl Buck's work "The Earth" was adapted into a movie, Huang Liushuang painstakingly wanted to play the heroine, and once again lost because of racial discrimination in the United States. These things have made Huang Liushuang recognize a fact: without a strong motherland, you are nothing.
Huang Liushuang decided to return to China to find her homeland, and when her career was at its peak, she returned to China, just to find her roots.
In China, Huang Liushuang saw a poor and backward China, where the Japanese were looking north and ready to invade China. Since then, Huang Liushuang has had one more dream in his heart in addition to the movie, that is, to support China's War of Resistance.
Yellow willow cream in China
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Americans were relieved, Chinese were their allies in attacking Japan, and the whole American society paid a lot of attention to China's war of resistance. At this time, Huang Liushuang was given the opportunity to perform in the anti-Japanese propaganda films "Burma Bomb" and "Lady Chongqing", and she donated all the remuneration for the two plays to the United Relief Society of China. After completing these feats, Huang Liushuang announced her retirement because she did not want to Chinese people to perform in the movie while desperately resisting.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > was snubbed by Song Meiling</h1>
In 1942, in order to win the support of the American people, the First Lady of China visited the United States and gave many speeches in the United States, calling on the American people to support the Chinese people in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Song Meiling gave a speech in the United States
Once, Song Meiling gave a speech in Hollywood, many filmmakers went to the scene to listen to the first lady's speech, Song Meiling's team also invited many well-known Chinese filmmakers to participate, but the Chinese female star Huang Liushuang, who was in Hollywood, was not invited.
It turned out that because the status of Chinese people in American society was extremely low, Huang Liushuang did not have many opportunities to perform, and for his film dreams, he often received some scripts for negative roles. Huang Liushuang can't shirk, because there are not many such opportunities, she often has to scratch her head in front of the camera, and the image is not glorious.
Whether it is politics or movies, it is all acting, nothing more than the level of acting skills, Song Meiling actually thinks that she is more noble than others?
Song Meiling's discrimination hit Huang Liushuang very hard, she was suffering from the discrimination of americans, but also hurt by her own people, and later, when asked by reporters, she said that "Chinese dislike me as a drama, and white people cannot intermarry with Chinese."
Such a sad word really betrayed her kindness to repay China with enthusiasm, and I am afraid that this is also an important reason why Huang Liushuang insisted on interrupting her film career later.
In fact, after the success of her film career, as Huang Liushuang's voice increased, she began to choose to play some positive roles, with the purpose of changing her own image and changing the image of the Chinese.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > bumpy affair</h1>
What young woman doesn't want her sweetheart to be a hero? The same is true of Huang Liushuang, because of the movie, she met a film producer named Michnilan, although the other party was more than thirty years older than her, she still pounced on each other like a moth to the fire.
The two have been in love for a long time, and when they are about to go to the marriage hall, the other party tells her that white people cannot intermarry with Chinese, so they turn away.
Later, Huang Liushuang fell in love with a British journalist, who was also white, and the other party also wrote a very widely circulated love song for her, however, the two could not come together in the end.
Huang Liushuang, who was completely disappointed in her feelings, never fell in love with others again, and she also bid farewell to her beloved film career and lived by collecting rent.
In February 1961, Huang Liushuang died of a heart attack at the age of 56.
After Huang Liushuang's death, everyone was more aware of the value of this Chinese actress in the film performance, people rushed to imitate her classic style, imitate her clothing, and the film industry has produced a long period of "Huang Liushuang" fever.
Huang Liushuang is an outstanding movie star, in that era when the Chinese were deeply discriminated against, with their own efforts, they created their own world, and the hardships can be imagined.
In addition to working hard to realize her film dreams, Huang Liushuang also participated in the movie with the purpose of improving the image of Chinese, which is really talented and dignified;
At the most difficult moment of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he resolutely supported the Chinese people's resistance to Japan and donated a lot of money to the War of Resistance Against Japan, which reflected the greatness.
For siblings, Huang Liushuang is also benevolent and righteous, using his own income to support the teaching expenses of seven brothers and sisters.
If the current artist has half of her consciousness and ideological realm, why has the showbiz circle become a place to hide dirt and grime?