Liu Qiong, a famous film artist. Born in 1912, a native of Xiangyin, Hunan. Although Liu Qiong studied law when he was a student at Shanghai Law School in his youth, out of great love for drama, he and his classmates jointly established the "Spring and Autumn Drama Society". Before graduating from college, he was introduced by jin yan, a big star with the name of "Shanghai Beach", to join the "Lianhua" film company and become an official actor.
Liu Qiong, who is 1 meter 86 tall
As an actor, Liu Qiong has very good innate conditions, he is tall, straight and well-proportioned, with good facial features and beautiful eyebrows. Liu Qiong's acting career spanned more than half a century and has starred in more than 70 films and directed more than a dozen films.
Liu Qiong, Di Fan and his wife, Feng Zhe and others in Hong Kong
In 1947, Liu Qiong was invited by The Hong Kong Wing Wah Film Company to participate in the filming of the film "The Soul of the Nation", which depicts national heroes. Liu Qiong played the protagonist Wen Tianxiang in the film. When Wen Tianxiang in prison sang "Song of Righteous Qi" with emotion and beauty, the audience was greatly shocked and burst into tears. This "National Soul" also became Liu Qiong's representative work at that time.
Liu Qiong plays Wen Tianxiang
At this time, the Kuomintang army was gradually defeated on the battlefield, and its rule in the Kuomintang area was becoming more and more cruel. In order to protect the backbone of the literary and art circles, the party organization arranged a large number of famous artists and cultural celebrities to work in Hong Kong, including Yang Hansheng, Cai Chusheng and Shi Dongshan. Liu Qiong in Hong Kong continued filming while using her spare time to participate in the "book club" formed by the actor group, while engaging in progressive cultural activities.
In 1951, Liu Qiong and Lu Jue jointly completed a musician's change of ideology and concept, and finally created a film script for the people's favorite works, called "Song of Youth". Liu Qiong is not only the screenwriter of the film, but also serves as a director herself, and also makes a cameo role in the film.
The protagonist of the film, Zhang Yunlan, is an orthodox music conservatory professor, his wife is also a pianist, and his daughter has a good talent for singing. Zhang Yunlan believes that music is a purely technical art, a simple beauty. Colleagues and students talked about his views, and he resigned in anger. Writing at home, preparing to hold a concert of your own works, I didn't expect the concert to fail. The family's life became increasingly poor, and the creditors came to the door to force the debt, so they had to use the piano as collateral.
Comfort and Gong Qiuxia playEd Zhang Yunlan and his wife in the film
Zhang Yunlan was completely desperate, and even thought of committing suicide. With the help of friends and daughter, he went back to the students. He was inspired by the students to sing songs full of the spirit of the times, which caused a great shock. He began to re-examine his artistic views, and soon he composed the song "Song of Youth", which was welcomed by the masses.
At the end of the filming of the film "Song of Youth", Liu Qiong and his wife, with their five-month-old children and the lead actor Comfort, were deported by the British government of Hong Kong as "undesirable", and the later stage of the film was completed by another director, Hu Xiaofeng.
Returning to New China, they joined the Shanghai Film Studio, and Liu Qiong and Di Fan continued to engage in the film business they loved. In the following years, Liu Qiong and Qin Yi starred in "Women's Basketball No. 5", Liu Qiong cooperated with Zhao Dan and Cui Wei to complete the film "Sea Soul", and his directorial masterpiece "Ashima".
Film "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel"
Mrs. Di Fan participated in the filming of the feature film "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel" directed by Lu Jue, one of the screenwriters of "Song of Youth", she played the female agent "Bagu", and the male protagonist was played by a famous actor Feng Zhe, who was also a friend who returned from Hong Kong.
Liu Qiong, the choreographer of the film "Song of Youth", and the starring comfort
On April 28, 2002, Liu Qiong died of lung cancer at the age of 90. On the day of the funeral, the old artists such as Comfort, who had suffered together with Liu Qiong in Hong Kong, did not have no emotions: Lao Liu is not dead, and Lao Liu's movie is not dead!