This first film not only attracted her to the colorful world outside Chinatown, but also completely changed her life.
Chinatown, in the eyes of Americans at that time, was mysterious and exotic, which could satisfy the curiosity of westerners. So early Hollywood movies often went to Chinatown to shoot on location. From time to time, Little Anna will go to the street filming scene to watch the excitement. When she gets home, she will shut herself in her room and imitate the facial expressions of the actors in front of the mirror, enjoying herself and reveling in it. Soon, at the shooting scene, Little Anna became a frequent visitor. Even the photographer noticed the beautiful and curious China baby. They call her C.C.C (Curious China Child: Curious China Baby).
From then on, she became fascinated with making movies. After returning home, she used her crib as a stage and her doll as an actress. A person writes, directs and plays in the room, or imitates the expression of sadness, joy and surprise of the actor in front of the mirror, and enjoys himself! That year, she was only 9 years old!
Huang Liushuang's stills in Shanghai Express. Her slender hands are recognized as "the first beautiful hand" in Hollywood. 19 19. She 14 years old, finally got the opportunity to be photographed. Although she is an unknown little character in Raise the Red Lantern, in any case, this role opened her door to Hollywood. Hollywood directors, from now on, have an impression on this China baby, and will definitely call her when necessary, although these roles are unknown mass roles, and they can't even name them.
Two years later, she 16 years old. It should be the beginning of a female star's best years, but her China baby face is still submerged in hundreds of mass characters.
192 1 year, she finally won the movie "Bit". FLife, 192 1) played opposite LonChaneySrt, a big-name Hollywood actor at that time. In the play, she plays his wife, and her acting talent makes her beautiful "clear soup and dried noodles". The shape of China baby began to appear in movies and magazines, and the name Huang Liushuang began to attract people's attention. There are even American film critics who use the acid topic "Yellow Disaster! China Invasion of the Screen published an article, expressing the complex mentality of surprise, dissatisfaction and even jealousy at the appearance of this Chinese Hollywood star.
/kloc-At the age of 0/7, Huang Liushuang starred in TheToll, the first color film in Hollywood. (Thea), she plays the role of Lotus, a girl from China. This film tells the story of Mrs. Butterfly, which tells the common love tragedy of lovers in the east and the west: she rescued a handsome American who fell into the water, and they fell in love and gave birth to a son, but the American still couldn't resist multiple pressures and left her. Lotus finally drowned herself. Huang Liushuang's vivid, delicate and subtle body language unique to oriental women makes Lotus, a China baby who can't fight against society, come alive.
Huang Liushuang, who is only 17 years old, or herself, has too many feelings about the oppression and injustice suffered by women in China. She was charming and received rave reviews, even stealing the limelight from the leading actor. Even the film critics who have been wearing racist glasses praised Huang Liushuang's acting skills. After the film was released in Japan, even Japanese film critics said that no Japanese actress could surpass this China actress in acting.
Later, when Huang Liushuang recalled the filming of this film, she said that she really didn't have much acting skills at that time, but only used her own alignment.
The understanding of China culture, the application of China's dress elements and China's unique emotional expression form Huang Liushuang's unique performance style. Twenty years later, the amphibious star on the beach, known as the white light of a generation of enchantress, and Li Lihua, known as the little wildcat, has the charm of Huang Liushuang in makeup modeling and performance. It can be seen that her performance style had a great influence on the later female stars in China. The success of "Battle at Sea" gave Huang Liushuang another chance to play a beautiful Mongolian slave in the movie "Iron Baghdad". In this stills, we can see the classic hairstyle of China's baby mask, with heavy forehead hair hanging straight down from the eyebrows. A pair of big black eyes with single eyelids are full of fear, her lips are smooth and chiseled, her back is naked, and a poisonous snake is sipping her plump thighs. It is not so much a shot needed for the plot as a sexy close-up of the East carefully designed by American directors according to the appetite of westerners. Sure enough, the gorgeous lens of this oriental doll stunned the audience. Later, it was printed as a movie poster and spread all over Europe, America and Asia. The Robber of Baghdad was a great success at the box office and became one of the best-selling movies in Hollywood that year. Huang Liushuang also became famous, and even became the cover girl of movie magazines. Less than 20 years old, Huang Liushuang was involved in more than a dozen Hollywood films. Her beautiful China baby image and mature acting skills may be due to the fact that the silent film era was not strict with her English. It can be said that she was a smash hit, but her greatest achievement in the Hollywood film industry was that she created a beautiful image of baby China on the screen. Just as China people at that time could never enter the mainstream American society, Huang Liushuang, who was a smash hit, never had a chance to play the leading role. Besides, she didn't have a chance to receive a good script.
Unfortunately, Huang Liushuang's film career coincided with the most serious period of racial prejudice in American society. In the eyes of Americans, China people are ignorant, insensitive and uncivilized inferior people, so in Hollywood movies, China people are described as robbers, drug dealers, murderers and arsonists, who are brutal, unreasonable and cunning. The women in China in the film are either prostitutes or slaves, and only Nuo Nuo succumbs to fate and the arrogance of men.
Huang Liushuang, as the first Chinese female star in Hollywood, if she insists on having a place in Hollywood, she can only succumb to the concept of China Baby, which is shaped according to the western concept: gorgeous exposure, weakness and humiliation.
This established role not only hindered her acting progress, but also brought her a lot of condemnation and negative comments from China society, making her a scapegoat for the US Congress 1882 passing the Chinese Exclusion Act. Together with her compatriots who are descendants of the Chinese people, they also misinterpreted her. Her films were banned in China.
As a matter of fact, Huang Liushuang is a mute who eats Rhizoma Coptidis, so he can't tell you how bitter he is! In the face of tough racial discrimination, the humiliated China woman she plays always ends up dead in every movie! So much so that when Huang Liushuang returned to China to visit relatives on 1936, the China media once mocked her ―― her epitaph should say that it was her 1000 deaths! A Shanghai reporter even asked her bluntly, "Why do you want to play so many humiliating oriental women?" Huang Liushuang's face suddenly turned red. She replied, "That's not my choice. Even if I don't play, there will be other actors to play. And I will lose the only chance of' China people hitting China people'! " Huang Liushuang was deeply frustrated by the racial discrimination in Hollywood. 1928 She resolutely left Hollywood to develop in Europe.
Her German film "Song" gave Huang Liushuang unprecedented space to play and greatly improved her popularity. 1929, she starred in Fanhuameng in Chinatown, which was her masterpiece at that time. For the promotion of movies, she often travels to Europe countries such as Britain and France, and her childhood dream of being a star has finally come true! Postcards with her stills are widely circulated all over the world. Her oriental doll charm-clear soup with straight hair, scarlet lips and towering cheekbones, is regarded as a representative of modern women with oriental sentiment. Her hairstyle, makeup and dress are all imitated by English girls. Until the 1950s by Elizabeth? The hairstyle of Cleopatra starring Taylor, we will still find that it is very similar to that of Huang Liushuang!
She stayed in Europe for three years. During this period, she learned English from the British upper class, was fluent in German and French, and had a little knowledge of Italian and Hebrew. In the 1920s and early 1930s, even modern women in Shanghai, the modern capital of China, probably didn't have Huang Liushuang's vision, foreign language ability and courage to travel around Europe alone. As a washerwoman from Chinatown, Huang Liushuang's achievement should be very rare! After three years in Europe, I don't know why-I can't give up the temptation of Hollywood DreamWorks? Feelings? Family? She returned to Hollywood. In the same year, she participated in the Broadway play OntheSpot. The success of the performance shows that she also has the performance ability of stage play. The New York Times called her "an incredibly naive girl". The fame she gained in Europe enabled her to co-star with the Japanese actor in Dragon Girl. But compatriots in the motherland still don't understand her. At that time, Tianjin Film Magazine was still criticizing her performance: "Paramount used Huang Liushuang's prostitute image to humiliate our China!"
1932, the first Hollywood film "Grand Hotel" set in Shanghai was filmed and released. The name of China Huang Liushuang, who plays the second heroine in the film, is hidden in the Shanghai poster, and her stills do not appear on the poster.
The biggest blow to her film career was her failure in the film The Good Earth adapted from Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. She likes the important roles of two women in the play so much that she has tried her best to win them. For the sake of box office and maintaining the image of Great America, her expectations finally fell through! Ironically, the roles of these two women in China are played by white people. And the reason why she lost the election is: "She is too oriental"!
1937 Rena, the heroine of The Good Earth, won an Oscar for this film. If Huang Liushuang wins the chance to play the China woman, it may create a legend for the Oscar! After being "hurt" by the earth, Huang Liushuang crossed the Pacific Ocean and came to China to visit his family who returned to his hometown in Taishan from the United States. Her trip to her hometown made her very excited, especially in Shanghai, where she was warmly welcomed. Even the media, which has been accusing her, may be moved by her beautiful appearance and sincere wandering feelings and be very friendly to her. She was deeply moved by such a welcome. She said emotionally: "As the only China person present, I was overwhelmed by a strong sense of loneliness when I was welcomed by German fans! It is the day when I have been looking forward to being with the vast number of Shanghai compatriots! "
In Shanghai and Hongkong, she was warmly welcomed by Hu Die, the winner at that time, and Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera. After all, ordinary people, compatriots and art colleagues all understand her. Known as "Paris of the East", Shanghai is the largest city in Asia. In 1930s, her thoughts and literary creation were very active, and her broad mind soothed the first China female star who was black and blue in Hollywood. In those days, Companion Illustrated had an exclusive interview with her, which fully affirmed her achievement as the first Chinese actress in Hollywood. This root-seeking trip is of great significance to Huang Liushuang. It strengthens her sense of identity and frees her from the confusion caused by the long-term drift of Chinese and Western cultures.
"If only I had been born in China!" She said sincerely. In a letter to an American friend, she wrote: "Although China is a strange country to me. However, I finally went home! " She has repeatedly expressed her desire to learn Chinese and China operas and to learn about China culture and history. This root-seeking trip awakened the patriotic feelings flowing in her blood.
Because of her father's childhood education, Huang Liushuang grew up in the United States, but she was deeply impressed by China. Before going back to China to visit relatives, she began to make up Mandarin (she can only speak Cantonese). It should be said that she has a gift for languages. In order to make a German film, it only took her four months to use German dialogue. After mastering Mandarin, she made many friends in China, including a generation of drama master Mei Lanfang and the winner Hu Die.
Along the way, she visited Shanghai, Nanjing, Hankou, Tianjin, Beiping and other places. I bought many articles with strong Chinese style, including cheongsam and embroidered chair covers.
Shanghai, in particular, made her linger. At EMI Records, she bought 38 Peking Opera records, including Wang Baochuan by Mei Lanfang and Fenhe Bay and Huilongge by Cheng. She deeply feels that Chinese Peking Opera is profound and exquisite, which is worth learning from the film industry. Speaking of it, as early as 1930, when Mei Lanfang and his party went to the United States to perform, Huang Liushuang had already done his best as a landlord, accompanied them all the way and warmly entertained them. Shortly after Huang Liushuang returned to the United States to visit relatives, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, and she was very worried. At banquets in the film industry and gatherings of charities, she made many speeches, calling on the American people to actively support China's anti-Japanese war, and took out many jewels she bought in China for charity sale, and remitted them back to China through 1939 to support the anti-Japanese war.
From 1942 to 1943, Song Meiling is visiting the United States. In the U.S. Congress, he delivered that famous speech promoting China War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which caused a great sensation in all walks of life in the United States. In Hollywood, Song Meiling also lost no time in giving a speech to an audience of 30,000, so that Americans can objectively understand women in China, China and China.
On the Hollywood stage, many famous movie stars revolve around Mrs. Jiang, except the only China actress in Hollywood! Huang Liushuang was very depressed. She really wants to do her part to serve the motherland! Later, I learned that it was precisely the "motherland" represented by Mrs. Jiang that turned her away. The reason is that Huang Liushuang represents the image of old China people, and old China people only include laundries, restaurant owners, gangs and coolies. China also has a large number of well-educated elites who can represent the image of the new China. Because of her independent personality, it is difficult for her to get understanding and support in her own home. Her father's subtle traditional education made her still live with her family after she became famous. She attaches great importance to family and feelings. Her high salary of $ 150 a week makes her the backbone of her family. Eight brothers and sisters in the family, except her, have all received higher education. It was she who paid the price for the education of her brothers and sisters, so that they finally walked out of Chinatown and became well-educated Xinhua people in the eyes of Mrs. Jiang, and she could only play the role of an old Chinese in Chinatown with humiliation.
As an early third-generation Chinese in the United States, her self-identity and cultural affiliation have always puzzled her. White Americans regard her as a native of China, while China regards her as a "freak" who forgets his roots. In fact, she was born in the United States and grew up in China. This unconfirmed identity and the alienation between eastern and western cultures make her love life full of bitterness!
When she made her mark in Hollywood, her father wanted to find a husband's family to marry her as soon as possible in order to stop her dream of becoming a star-the clever second generation of South China University of Technology had already seen the time bomb on her dream of becoming a star. Huang Liushuang, who has seen the world outside Chinatown, of course refuses to follow the motto of China women for thousands of years, "Parents' orders, matchmakers' words". However, her star status has also brought many difficulties to her marriage and love.
At that time, Chinese Americans were divided into two categories ―― Chinatown and elite Chinese who settled in the United States. Most of the former are traditional, thrifty and conservative, with a low level of education. Even if Huang Liushuang doesn't hate them, they dare not risk marrying such a woman who makes movies. Most of the latter are professionals and have penetrated into the mainstream white society. In fact, these professionals who blend Chinese and Western cultures are very much to Huang Liushuang's liking, but they often despise women like Huang Liushuang. Let's talk about her independent personality and strong dedication to work. Even she is worried that getting married will hinder her development. In her mind, the object of marriage and love is still a white male.
Her first love was a white man twice her age, probably her father. He's a film producer, Mitch? Nilan MicheyNeilan, a famous playboy in the circle, is addicted to parties and making girlfriends all day. At that time, his salary per film had reached $65,438 +0.25 million, but he often spent it as soon as he got it! How does Huang Can Liu Shuang of Seeds of Love endure the pursuit of this veteran in love? Fall in love with him soon. The relationship between them quickly developed to the point of talking about marriage, intending to get married in Mexico (because California law at that time prevented China women from marrying whites), but in the end Nilan left her. The reason is that according to California law, white people can't marry China women. Maybe it's just an excuse for his boredom. Therefore, Huang Liushuang, who plays the role of China woman on the screen, repeats the love tragedy.
This heartless injury dealt a heavy blow to Huang Liushuang. She has never found a happy love life in her life.
Since 1950, in her forties, she seldom made movies, but participated in the production of some TV programs at most.