Years pass by, Hollywood movies are surging, almost submerging the artistic brilliance of Liao Ruoxingchen. Huang Liushuang, a Chinese woman in the Republic of China period, can be called the first generation of Chinese actors on the international screen.
The doll head that has been passed down to this day was invented by Huang Liushuang. With the first "Chinese doll" shape, Huang Liushuang has become the image of an oriental beauty in the Western world. From the existing photos, we can see that Huang Liushuang's appearance still conforms to our definition of beauty today.
She has thick and shiny hair, plump and round face, and has a doll head bang that is brushed with brushed. Her eyes are big and vivid, her eyes are flashing and lively, her figure is tall and charming. In Hollywood in the 1930s, Huang Liushuang became the cover girl of the world with her ecstasy and mature and elegant appearance.
However, such a beautiful woman was banned by Soong Mei-ling. During her visit to the United States in 1942 and 1943, Soong Mei-ling delivered a speech on anti-Japanese war, which caused a huge response in all walks of life in the United States. On a Hollywood podium, many famous stars were invited to attend. However, only the Hollywood Chinese movie star Huang Liushuang was not only not invited, but was also banned by Soong Mei-ling. The reason for this situation is related to the role she played in the movie.
Huang Liushuang is undoubtedly beautiful. In the eyes of many people, she is a splendid and is also a highly anticipated movie star. Her life is comfortable, but the fact is not the case. Behind Huang Liushuang's bright appearance, there is an unbearable pain.
Huang Liushuang was born in Los Angeles, USA in January 1905. Her ancestral home is Taishan, Guangdong. She is a third generation Chinese immigrant to the United States. Her father Huang Shanxing opened a laundry at that time to make a living. Huang Liushuang started a laundry for her father's laundry since she was a child. Once, when she was delivering clothes, the customer gave her a tip. She used the money to watch the first movie in her life. Since then, she has been fascinated by the movie. Since then, she often went to the scene of the movie to watch the movie and begged the director to let her participate in the performance.
Hard work pays off. With the role-playing of wandering on the set every day and begging directors and producers to play a supporting role for her, Huang Liushuang finally had the opportunity to be on the camera. In 1919, Huang Liushuang participated in her first American movie "Red Lantern", in which she played an unknown British mistress. She then starred in movies such as "Old San Francisco", and gradually became famous. In 1928, because Huang Liushuang's role in Hollywood was restricted, she left Hollywood and went to Europe to shoot a movie. In 1929, she was invited to attend a British royal banquet with the British movie "Chinatown Fun Dream".
In 1930, Huang Liushuang returned to Hollywood and starred in 167 stage plays "Flash" on Broadway, New York, as well as movies such as "Shanghai Express", "The Hotel", and "Tiger Bay". In these movies, most of the roles played by Huang Liushuang are women at the bottom of society, brothel women and mistresses. Her clothes are usually exposed, and her character is abused and bullied, and the ending is mostly suicide or homicide.
Huang Liushuang's acting and beauty have been recognized during a period, but her performances are still restricted due to "racial discrimination". In Hollywood movies, many of her roles are brothel women or mistresses, etc. In the film, her sometimes image is to show her thighs and sway her dancing posture.
Although these seem ordinary in the movie, in the view of Soong Mei-ling at that time, the characters played by Huang Liushuang were all show-off characters. She felt that Huang Liushuang was embarrassed and shamed the country. In Soong Mei-ling's heart, those well-educated elites were the representatives of China's new image, so Huang Liushuang was banned by Soong Mei-ling.
Huang Liushuang was extremely disappointed, but she was helpless in the face of Soong Mei-ling's disgust. In fact, Huang Liushuang was always concerned about the fate of the nation, but she did not get the understanding of the country. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, although Huang Liushuang was not in China, she still missed her motherland. At the gatherings in the film industry, she once called on the American people to support China's War of Resistance.
In the donation of charity organizations, she also took out her favorite jewelry for sale, and the money she earned was not left behind. In 1942, the anti-Japanese propaganda films "Myanmar Bomb" and "Mrs. Chongqing" starring them were broadcast in the United States. Huang Liushuang donated all the remuneration income from these two movies to the China United Relief Association. However, what Huang Liushuang has paid to the motherland still did not get domestic understanding and respect. When Soong Mei-ling visited the United States, Soong Mei-ling not only refused Huang Liushuang to attend, but also banned her.
Huang Liushuang was in an embarrassing situation all her life. In the United States, Huang Liushuang did not have a good role because of her "racial prejudice" and could not play the protagonist. In China, she was rejected because of her poor role and screen image.
Emotionally, she also suffered from a kind of life in a crack. Huang Liushuang was never married or had children in her life. Her first love was a film producer Michinlan who was thirty or forty years older than her. The relationship between the two was originally at the place where they talked about marriage, but because the law at that time was that Chinese women could not intermarry with white people, the two eventually broke up. After that, Huang Liushuang also had a relationship with British reporters, but due to the difference in identity, the two were not together in the end.
Huang Liushuang survived in the cracks all her life, suffering and lost, and had no support. This sense of frustration made her extremely lonely, but she never gave up on her pursuit of her dreams. After her career was bottleneck and her relationship failed, the beauty was in her late bloomer, smoking and drinking became the norm, and also ruined her health.
She lived with her younger brother in the second half of her life, and made a living by renting out her original property. In 1961, Huang Liushuang died of a heart attack. She was only 56 years old. There was no funeral and no one wrote an epitaph for her. She just buried her with her mother silently.
