Speaking of Hollywood Chinese actresses, people immediately came to mind: Gong Li , Chapter Ziyi , Michelle Yeoh ... But compared with the ones to be mentioned below, they are only considered juniors.
Huang Liushuang , left her handprint on Hollywood Walk of Fame long before Jackie Chan , Maggie Cheung , and herself, can also be said to be the most representative Chinese movie star in the history of films in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Since that's the case, why are few people mention her now?
Ups and downs of life
In that era where Huang Liushuang was, Chinese people in the United States generally had the dream of making money and went to the United States to work hard, and Huang Liushuang's parents were among the Chinese workers.
When Huang Liushuang was born, the parents of the Huang family had already opened a laundry. According to their parents' plans, the child will inherit the laundry in the future and find opportunities to make money to open a few more branches.
But after watching a movie at the age of 9, the dream of being a film and television actor took root in Huang Liushuang's heart.
, in China in the early 20th century, actors were a low-key profession among all the churches, and the Huang family's parents also severely scolded their daughter and asked her to give up.
More importantly, at that time, racist ideas in Hollywood were extremely prevalent, and it was like a fool to make a name for themselves.
Huang Liushuang's father Huang Shanxing has worked hard for many years and is full of resentment towards racial discrimination. He also knows how unfriendly Hollywood is to the Chinese, so how can he let his daughter jump into the fire pit?
Huang Liushuang did not surrender, and she still kept the idea of being an actor in mind.
It is worth mentioning that the reason why she wants to be an actor is not just to be a big star in the future and make a name for herself. When she recalled her dream in her later years, she described what she thought in her heart:
"I want to be a great actor, an actor with a voice and influence in Hollywood, so that those who underestimate us Chinese will not dare to talk too much in front of me anymore. And I also hope to use my fame and status to make us yellow people stand up in Hollywood from now on, just like those who have been trying to eliminate races all their lives. Like black actors who have tried their best to discriminate. "
From a little supporting role to a big heroine
until 1922, Huang Liushuang won the female lead in "The Death of the Sea" and entered the sight of Hollywood superstar Douglas Van Punk , and invited her to star in " Baghdad Thieves ".
Although Huang Liushuang doesn’t have many scenes, she has studied it carefully and achieved the ultimate in both expressions, actions and overall character creation. The film received good reviews after it was released.
At this time, Huang Liushuang had already joined the ranks of Hollywood's first-tier actresses, and was extremely glorious.
However, Huang Liushuang received the most roles in the film, all of whom were bitter characters such as prostitutes and seriously ill patients. This was exactly what Huang's parents were worried about back then.
Huang Liushuang has fought against her, and even blatantly criticized this unfair treatment in the interview program. everything was futile. Huang Liushuang was disappointed with Hollywood and went to Europe to develop.
After less than three years of hard work in Europe, Huang Liushuang has become popular all over Europe and has also appeared in the French magazine " Vanity Fair ". Her reputation in Europe has also eased Hollywood's attitude towards this Chinese actress.
The Hollywood movie "The Earth" started filming. It is said that this film tells the story of Chinese women. It is most appropriate to be starred by Chinese actresses. The director even had already interviewed Huang Liushuang in advance.
Who knew that Huang Liushuang had been waiting for more than half a year and learned that the film company launched an Australian actress to take the lead in the female lead. Huang Liushuang finally understood that Hollywood's discrimination against yellow people has never been eliminated, so she returned to China.
The storm of the motherland
The first thing Huang Liushuang did when she returned to China was to worship Mr. Mei Lanfang as her teacher and learn from the Peking Opera that she had admired for a long time. Later, as a senior filmmaker, after returning to China for a period of time, Huang Liushuang decided to start her own film career again.
This time, she encountered an unprecedented crisis. Several newspapers and magazines at that time exaggerated the fact that Huang Liushuang used to play the role of a firework woman and a poor man, saying that Huang Liushuang was not married at all, had no children, and did not support her parents in her old age.
Huang Liushuang thus left the noisy stage and began to participate in the shooting of some films showing the positive image of China as a producer and executive director.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War , Huang Liushuang not only dispersed all her family’s wealth to support the Anti-Japanese War Foundation, but also raised funds everywhere to sponsor the Red Cross to help the people, but Huang Liushuang still did not win respect when she worked for the country in this way.
The harm of people around you
The harm of outsiders is always just skin trauma, and the harm from family is enough to be fatal!
Huang Liushuang worked hard in her career and took on the responsibility of supporting the whole family alone. Her whole family lived a prosperous life with her, but in their eyes, Huang Liushuang was still not worthy of their respect.
Many of her roles in Hollywood are erotic and frivolous, and her clothes are exposed. When she first became famous, her father once told her that finding an honest person to live a peaceful life is true, but even such a request cannot be met.
In the eyes of many people with traditional ideas, is just a lowly "actor", and she also plays a erotic character with exposed clothes. How can she marry her home?
And those so-called elites don’t look down on her as an actor and don’t want to get along with her. What about those foreigners? Their ideas should not be so feudal.
indeed has it. Huang Liushuang once fell in love with a white man, Mickey Nelan, although this man is 40 years older than her and still has the nickname of a prodigal son in the circle.
Huang Liushuang still believed that she could impress him, and was devoted to getting along with him wholeheartedly, and she also looked forward to a beautiful Nordic settlement in the future. However, Huang Liushuang later found that she was still just a toy in the heart of a veteran in love.
So many years of sincere efforts were finally crushed by Mickey Neran's words "Chinese women cannot intermarry with white people."
Although the United States did have this explicit rule at that time, it did not say that it was impossible to register for marriage in other countries. In the final analysis, Mickey Nelan made an excuse to dump her.
Family affection, love... She has never enjoyed it.
Everything rained and breezeed away
The once glorious Hollywood superstar was hurriedly buried after her death, and her family did not even hold a decent memorial service for her.
Whether it is the love of the country or the love of the country, to Huang Liushuang, everything ends up like a bubble, disappearing invisible.
But looking back on her life, she has become an eternal myth in Hollywood and a legend of Chinese movie stars. She doesn't regret her life much.
And she didn't seem to think about going over and regretting her life, I've been here, I've struggled, I've been wonderful, that's all.
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