On the stage of the opening ceremony of the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival, Wang Danfeng, who was in a wheelchair, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Films awarded to her by the organizing committee. For a performing artist who has been in the film for more than 40 years, has dedicated more than 50 screen images throughout ancient and modern times, and has let the flower of film bloom in Pujiang and Xiangjiang, this award is truly deserved.
If Chinese cinema is a legend, then Wang Danfeng is a legend in the legend, she is also the bright and beautiful, gorgeous film actress in the memory of many fans, she was named the most beautiful actress in the 1940s, and she is also one of the twenty-two stars of New China hand-picked by Premier Zhou.
In 1961, Premier Zhou proposed to select "China's own stars in the film industry", and Wang Danfeng, Zhao Dan, Bai Yang, Zhang Ruifang, Shangguan Yunzhu, Sun Daolin, Qin Yi and 22 others were selected, named "New Chinese Actors", commonly known as "Twenty-two Movie Stars".
On June 23, early in the morning, Wang Danfeng put on makeup and combed, and in the presidential suite of the Garden Hotel, she was interviewed by Lu Yu. Silver hair like snow, red lips and ice muscles, temperament as before. Wang Danfeng quit the film industry after making his last film, "Jade Butterfly", in 1980. Lu Yu's interview with the Garden Hotel in Shanghai is the first time in nearly four decades that she has been interviewed.
Beautiful without self-knowledge
93-year-old Wang Danfeng because of the relationship between physical health, now travel mostly in a wheelchair, beautiful for a lifetime, she has been the habit of being a beauty into the bits and pieces of life, although the ears are somewhat inaudible, but when sitting upright, she always holds a handbag to cover her abdomen.
How beautiful is Wang Danfeng? Zhang Ailing's epistles describe her in this way: "Ningbo people are much more beautiful, such as Wang Danfeng, I think it is a coastal prehistoric ethnographic relationship", which is a sentence written by Zhang Ailing to her friend Xia Zhiqing when she was living in the United States. After many years, half a world across the world, seeing more beautiful people, Zhang Ailing's impression of the beautiful Wang Danfeng on the beach is still so deep.
Rowan, a famous Hong Kong singer, said that the boys in the class were only divided into two factions, one faction liked Wang Xiaotang and the other liked Wang Danfeng. It can be seen that Wang Danfeng's reputation is not worthy. However, for his own beauty, Wang Danfeng was not self-aware.
Lu Yu couldn't help but praise her beauty, but Wang Danfeng showed her traditional humility: "I am not beautiful. ”
At that time, if a girl looked good, she said that she looked a bit like Wang Danfeng. Wang Danfeng himself did not know his own beauty. She said: "I'm not beautiful, I'm not beautiful, anyway, honest people, not beautiful." I was probably lucky, there was nothing very unpleasant. "Probably a person who is really beautiful never thinks he is beautiful.
Mistakenly hit and bumped into an actor, but seriously acted to achieve the role
Not only is he talented and beautiful, Wang Danfeng's film road is also smooth.
In the 1940s, 17-year-old Wang Danfeng was known as Xiao Zhouxuan by the public for playing the role of the heroine Fisherman's Daughter in the film "New Fishing Light Song".
Played the fisherman's daughter in "New Fisherman's Song"
Wang Danfeng was born in a wealthy family in Shanghai, and when her parents went to the theater, they never forgot to bring this cute child with them. Who knows, this has sown a good artistic seed in the daughter's young heart. She saved all the snack money given by her parents, and went to the movie with her sister, and almost watched every new film: "Mulan Conscription", "Meng Jiang Girl", "New Hell", "Three Laughs"... The famous actors at that time all became her idols. On the white wall around her sleeping bed, there were pictures of movie stars, Ruan Lingyu, Chen Yunsheng, Yuan Meiyun, Hu Die, Zhou Xuan...
Wang Danfeng played Ya Mingfeng in the film "Home"
Aunt Shu Lijuan, who lives next door to Danfeng, works for a film company. Dan Feng often pestered her to tell the story of making movies. Aunt Shu also liked this little movie fan, and she promised to take Dan Feng to the studio to see and open her eyes. On this day, Shu Lijuan led Dan Feng to The United Film Company in Xujiahui. What is being filmed in the studio is Zhu Shilin's "Dragon Pond Tiger's Den". A set of shots was shot. Zhu Shilin let everyone rest for a while, and he himself picked up the teacup and drank slowly, but when he looked around, his director's unique eyes suddenly stared at Wang Danfeng and did not move, and then got up and walked towards her and invited her to audition.
Wang Danfeng was filmed on the scene of the film "Jade Butterfly"
When the camera quietly made a pleasant turning sound, the expression on Wang Danfeng's emotional face was exactly the charming demeanor that Zhu Shilin had longed for, enough to express a melancholy woman. Zhu Shilin immediately left her to play a small role in "Dragon Pond Tiger's Den". Yu Feng has finally gone from an ordinary film fan to a professional film actor.
Soon, Wang Danfeng took on the lead role in her second film, and her reputation rose to a hit. This movie is "New Fisherman's Song". Wang Danfeng's name also spread with the singing of "New Fishing Light Song", and she was called "Little Zhou Xuan" by the film industry.
Wang Danfeng and Bai Yang in the film "Spring in the World"
As a well-known new star, Wang Danfeng never signed a fixed contract with any film company, so he can choose his favorite script very autonomously. She has successively filmed 9 famous films in various film companies, such as "Lifelong Event", "Qingqing Riverside Grass", "Moon Black Wind High", "Mandarin Duck", "Luan Feng Complain", "Broken Intestines and Heavenly End", "Speechless Ask the Sky", "Pearlescent Treasure", "The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night", and thus enjoyed the reputation of "high-prolific actress".
Wang Danfeng and Shangguan Yunzhu played the roles of Four Phoenixes and Prosperity in the drama "Thunderstorm"
Wang Danfeng, who accidentally hit and bumped into the film circle, has thus achieved a classic image of a film history, and it is necessary to count the most beautiful actresses who have stood the test of time among Chinese women in the past, Wang Danfeng must be among the best.
She should be moving and quiet, suitable for the appearance of the ancient and modern, foreign and classical appearance, making her a popular star in the middle of the last century who was popular all over the mainland, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, although she became famous very early, and her career was smooth, but Wang Danfeng's dedication and seriousness to performance, but she never relaxed, almost every time she played a different role, she deeply experienced a different life.
For filming to experience different lives in depth, low-key humility is excellent
Wang Danfeng, who entered the industry at the age of 16, compared with other popular actresses in the same period such as Zhou Xuan, Shangguan Yunzhu, Zhang Ruifang, etc., is a young little sister, but it is also this little sister who is responsible for her work investment, low-key and modest, but has an excellent reputation in the film circle, many filmmakers are her old friends for many years, including many famous movie stars such as Zhou Xuan and Hu Die, who she liked in her youth.
Wang Danfeng and Hu Die
In 1985, Wang Danfeng and his husband Liu Heqing, at the invitation of US President Reagan, went to the United States to attend his inauguration, and when she was in the United States, she also visited a number of American friends, such as the film queen Hu Die, her film sister Li Lihua and so on.
In January 1986, Wang Danfeng took a group photo with Ms. Shensart in Reagan's office
Wang Danfeng is particularly serious in filming, and when he plays a hairdresser, he really goes to the barbershop to learn to cut his hair. At that time, there was a Nanjing barber shop in Shanghai, and the teacher's name was Liu. In order to go deep into life, Wang Danfeng, under the introduction of Master Liu, cut hair with many female barbers. Later, it was found that there were many spectators outside outside, jumping up to see her outside. In order not to disturb the business of the barbershop, Wang Danfeng said that he would not go again. Later, when filming, a barber came to participate in her play, and she could usually teach Wang Danfeng to continue her studies.
When filming "You Chase Me", because it is a rural film. Wang Danfeng went to the countryside for half a year and worked with the peasants to eat and live together. The villagers wore big straw hats, and they also wore big straw hats. Planting seedlings and turning soil must be learned.
Wang Danfeng and Shangguan Yunzhu participated in labor in the countryside
Wang Danfeng and Ji Yuguang in the film "You Chase Me"
After Wang Danfeng made his debut, he was once known as "Little Zhou Xuan". Talking about Zhou Xuan, Wang Danfeng said: "She is a very good person, she usually does not love to come out, and her clothes are also very simple and quite good." I think we should be honest and honest, and work in a down-to-earth manner. ”
This is probably what kind of people will like what kind of people, Wang Danfeng himself is not so low-key, simple?
After she finished acting in "Nurse's Diary", the nurse became a boy and chose a mate
One day in 1957, Wang Danfeng stepped into the door of the Shanghai Film Studio, and just sat down, the director Tao Jin happily handed him a newly printed script, and the fragrance of the ink was emanating from the words. On the cover, several eye-catching art words are printed: "Nurse's Diary". This is a story that tells the story of a young nurse, Jian Suhua, in order to obey the needs of the motherland, bid farewell to her relatives, resolutely left Shanghai, and went to the northeast to participate in industrial construction. Since Wang Danfeng made a movie, she has never played such a role. She is determined to create a new woman with the characteristics of the times on the screen of the new China.
Just when Wang Danfeng was concentrating on immersing herself in the creation of the role, the director TaoJin put forward a new requirement for her: "The theme song of the film, I don't want to ask professional singers to sing, just ask yourself to sing it!" Wang Danfeng blushed and shook his hand repeatedly: "No, no! I can't sing well. Tao Jin encouraged: "You sing with your own earthen voice, maybe better than the foreign voice." "This song is the song "Little Swallow" that the people of the whole country will sing!
After the film aired, many boys at that time were looking for girlfriends, hoping to find a nurse.
Wang Danfeng: "There is this thing. They said that some boys thought the nurse was very good and still looked for a nurse. ”
He was hand-picked by Premier Zhou to play table tennis
In 1961, Premier Zhou proposed to select "China's own stars in the film industry", and Wang Danfeng, Zhao Dan, Bai Yang, Zhang Ruifang, Shangguan Yunzhu, Sun Daolin, Qin Yi and 22 others were selected, named "New Chinese Actors", commonly known as "Twenty-two Movie Stars". In 1962, Wang Danfeng was elected a member of the government delegation and followed Premier Zhou and Vice Premier Chen Yi on a trip abroad to Burma. There were 400 people in the delegation, and artists accounted for a large proportion, including Cui Wei, Sang Arc, Zhang Ruifang, Qin Yi, Wang Xingang, Tian Hua, Yang Likun and others.
Because several Shanghai delegates failed to catch up with the group banquet, Premier Zhou Enlai invited them to their homes for a small gathering. This meal, everyone ate with relish. At the dinner table, there was an extremely warm atmosphere, and Sister Deng also gave everyone dishes from time to time, asking everyone not to be polite. After the meal, the prime minister accompanied everyone for a walk in the courtyard. The prime minister said with concern: "Although you are engaged in literature and art, don't forget the movement!" "In the lounge, there is a dark green ping-pong table. The Prime Minister, in his capacity as host, invited everyone to play table tennis. After playing a few rounds with Zhang Ruifang first, he turned his eyes to Wang Danfeng again: "You can also play a few games!" ”
Wang Danfeng's cheeks were crimson and he shook his hands continuously: "Premier, I can't play table tennis." So the prime minister told her: "This is a healthy sport, you still have to study well in the future, and the next time I see you, I will still ask you to play table tennis." A few years later, as soon as the premier saw Wang Danfeng in Shanghai, the first sentence was to ask: "Have you learned to play table tennis?" Wang Danfeng felt particularly touched, the prime minister who was rational and clever, he would also remember a sentence that he had inadvertently said, as an actor, how could he not do his job well?
Beautiful, but only one boyfriend in her life!
Unlike other female movie stars in the film industry, Wang Danfeng said that she is particularly unsociable and likes to stay quietly at home, and there is only one boyfriend in this life. This "boyfriend" is Liu Heqing.
Wedding photos of Wang Danfeng, Liu and Qing
In the middle of the last century, the Liu family is not only a noble family in Shanghai, but also a famous film family, the Guohua, Guotai Studio, Jincheng Cinema founded by the Liu family, is a fertile soil for creating domestic films, and there are countless domestic business cards born under them, and the big stars born from under the Liu family are countless, such as Zhou Xuan, Zhou Manhua, Murong Wan'er, Comfort, etc.
Compared with his illustrious family lineage, Liu Heqing has a gentle and careful personality and cares for Wang Danfeng. On New Year's Day 1951, the couple's grand wedding ceremony caused a sensation in Shanghai, and newspapers and magazines reported that the combination of the two was a good story. Now, more than half a century later, Ms. Wang still lives in a house in Shaannan Village, Shanghai, where she lived when she married her husband, but her husband, Liu Heqing, passed away in 2016.
Wang Danfeng, Liu heqing and his wife
Shannan Village, a quiet community located in the Jing'an district of downtown Shanghai, was once a famous royal apartment in Shanghai, with beige walls, white lace curtains, simple and elegant rooms, only two large photos of Wang Danfeng in the early 1950s hanging on the wall, vaguely telling the identity of the owner. Wang Danfeng, a 93-year-old legendary beauty, spent half her life in this house, but whenever she recalls the past with her husband, she still never forgets it.
Ten years after the end of the film in 1992, the 68-year-old Wang Danfeng and Mr. Liu Heqing went to Hong Kong hand in hand to establish the Gongdelin Shanghai Vegetarian Restaurant, under the careful research of the couple, the hotel became famous in the Hong Kong food industry, and then the couple over 80 years old, gave Gong deLin to others and returned to his hometown Shanghai to recuperate, and now Mr. Liu has passed away in 2016, but recalls the Gongdelin Vegetarian Restaurant jointly operated by the couple, Wang Danfeng has always been remembered.
In his later years, Wang Danfeng, Liu heqing
Whether it is the halo above their heads or the labor in the factory, Liu Heqing and Wang Danfeng are always left and right, unswerving. In the Shanghai film industry, Liu Heqing's kindness to his wife is well known. Many of Wang Danfeng's photos are from Liu Heqing, and many of the clothes worn by Wang Danfeng, who is recognized as exquisitely dressed, were bought by Liu Heqing. "He doesn't need me to buy clothes, as long as he looks good, it will be appropriate." Speaking of this, Wang Danfeng's happiness is overflowing with words. They had three daughters, the eldest studying international trade in Japan, the second daughter studying art in Hong Kong, and the third daughter studying art in the United States, none of whom worked in film.
"She's not coming out." I have heard many friends who are familiar with Wang Danfeng say this, and some of them are her relatives. "I went to her house to pay her a new year's greeting at the New Year, and I was very happy, but when I wanted to take pictures, she politely refused." This is Wang Danfeng's attitude toward the outside world in recent decades - like a peacock, condensing heavenly creations, the most beautiful animals in nature, when they age, they will hide in a place far away from the crowds and grow old alone.
Lu Yu said:
Usually, there are not many beautiful people who can actually control their own lives. But like Teacher Wang Danfeng, including Teacher Xia Meng, they can basically do every step of the key step in life according to their own wishes, but they have not yet taken every step wrong, which is very rare. I think it's because they are really well-behaved, that is, Teacher Wang Danfeng always said that she is particularly well-behaved, very obedient, and very quiet, and does not go out, just stay at home. She knows how to protect herself and allows those around her to protect her. And then she was really lucky that in the midst of the big winds and waves, her little ship of destiny was basically able to sail relatively calmly and slowly into its harbor. I think it has something to do with her luck, and it has something to do with her personality, and it is actually not very objective in terms of luck, and such a person must have great wisdom in the dark.
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