8.黎莉莉
Li Lili was born in Beijing in 1915 and moved to Shanghai in 1927, where she joined the China National Song and Dance Troupe. Soon, she turned to films, starring in "Loving Blood of the Volcano." She won fans with her fashionable and energetic image and earned the nickname Sweet Sister. From 1935 to 1937, she starred in eight more films and then joined China Film Studio in Chongqing. After starring in several more hits, Li went to the U.S. in 1946 to study acting at Catholic University in Washington, language and singing in New York, and make-up at the University of California. In 1955, she studied at Beijing Film Academy, and later taught in the acting department. Li was the last living movie star from the silent era when she died of a heart attack in Beijing in 2005 at the age of 90.
20世纪20年代以后,有名气的美女大都在上海,这也使上海成了二十到四十年代中国最风情、最芬香的城市。在这团沉香交融的空气中,走出了中国最后一位默片影星黎莉莉。
她原名钱蓁蓁,1915年6月2日出生于北京;1927年,她移居上海,父亲送她进黎锦晖主办的中华歌舞团学习歌舞,此团后改名为明月歌舞团。她随团曾到过南洋一带演出,由于她表演出色,与王人美、胡蝶被称为歌舞三杰。黎锦晖也十分喜爱她,认她为干女儿,改姓黎。
1932 年,她主演了孙瑜导演的《火山情血》,随后又出演了其他几部影片。在这些影片中,她以活泼、健康、富有时代性的形象征服了观众,被公认为典型的“甜姐”, 颇受当时学生及青年人的欢迎。1935年至1937年,她在“联华”主演了《狼山喋血记》、《人海遗珠》等八部影片。
抗日战争爆发后,她来到重庆,加入了中国电影制片厂,出演了很多轰动一时的影片。1946年,她到美国,在华盛顿天主教大学学习表演,到纽约学习语言和声乐,到加利福尼亚大学暑期班进修化妆,还到好莱坞观摩实习过,1947年回国。1955年她进入北京电影学院(微博)专修班学习,后留校任教,成为表演系教授。1991年,中国电影表演艺术学会为她颁发了“学会特别荣誉奖”。
2005年8月7日,这一位从默片时代就成名的女星挥手作别,享年91岁。有一段新闻导语这样写道,“中国上个世纪辉煌的三十年代电影的大门彻底关闭。”
7.上官云珠
Shangguan Yunzhu was born in 1920 in Jiangsu Province. In 1937, she and her family were forced to leave for Shanghai to escape from the chaos caused by war. There, she was admitted to a drama school. Shangguan made her first movie in the 1940s and began to distinguish herself in film circles. Many of her movies in the late 1940s became classics in China's movie history. She was famous for her films such as the Crow and the Sparrow and Spring River Flows East. Shangguan was harassed to death during the Cultural Revolution in 1968.
出生于江苏的上官云珠到了19岁才开始了她真正意义上的人生,这一年,她几经辗转来到上海,在蒲石路(今长乐路)庆福里236弄18号拥挤的弄堂房子里,上官云珠开始了她上海滩十里洋场的美丽人生。
四十年代 初,上官云珠拍摄了她的电影处女作《玫瑰飘零》,开始在影坛上崭露头角。20世纪40年代后期。她在“左翼”文化运动领导的昆仑影业公司里所拍摄的许多进 步影片,如《一江春水向东流》、《丽人行》、《早春二月》、《万家灯火》、《乌鸦与麻雀》等,后来都成为中国著名经典名片,上官云珠,这个旧上海十里洋场 洇染下走出来的女子,终于脱胎换骨,凝成一段冰清玉洁的沉香。
上官云珠的 女人香别有情趣,她眉眼俏丽,还有合乎江南人审美的精巧的小嘴,一幅典型的上海美女精明世故模样,在那里面带着一点风尘气的冶艳和江南小家碧玉的本分,所 以她常被导演选中演上海的交际花,商人家庭的少奶奶,暴发户张狂的妻子,在细细的画眉下,她的眼睛,会表现出锋利的刮胡刀一样的刻薄。
但上官云珠的洁身自爱并没有让她逃脱历史的捉弄,在“文化大革命”期间,上官云珠受到残酷迫害,于1968年11月22日去世。