She is Lettie (August 29, 1937 - December 27, 1968), formerly known as Xi Chongyi , a Hong Kong Mandarin film actor.
Her representative works include: "A Chinese Ghost Story", "A Dream of Red Mansions", " Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai " and so on. Today, let's talk about the two works "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" starring her.
1. The ancestor of A Chinese Ghost Story
mentioning the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", everyone will immediately think of Nie Xiaoqian played by Wang Zuxian , and Nie Xiaoqian played by Lettie, who was known as the "Ancestor of a Chinese Ghost Story" before her, with the passage of time , but became less known.
In 1959, Lettie's "A Chinese Ghost Story" participated in the "Cannes Film Festival" in France in 1960, which was also the first color film in China to participate in an international film festival. After the screening of the film, Lettie's beauty and moving stunned all the people on the scene, and she was immediately praised as "the most beautiful Chinese female star". Lettie has an elegant temperament, a virtuous and demure personality, especially her ancient costumes are pure and refined, radiant, and most popular with audiences. Therefore, she has won the title of "classical beauty", which no one can surpass so far.
And since Lettie successfully starred in the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", "A Chinese Ghost Story" has become the most popular remake theme for decades.
Lettie is known as the "Ancestor of A Chinese Ghost Story" because of the creation of "Nie Xiaoqian", the characters in the novel "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai", on the movie screen.
Second, Lin Daiyu rebirth Her acting skills made the audience indistinguishable from Lin Daiyu. Her frowns and smiles in the film surprised the audience.
In addition to her natural beauty, Letty always has a slightly sad temperament between her eyebrows, which is in line with Lin Daiyu's temperament. Because of this, she is particularly good at playing tragic roles. Lettie is not a thin melon-seed face, but a standard duck-egg face, but she is truly affectionate, with all kinds of breathtaking amorous feelings.
Letty, played by Lin Daiyu, showed Lin Daiyu's "sickness like Xizi wins three points" in every gesture, which really made the audience feel pity. Especially in the part of " Daiyu Burial Flowers", the pure and lovely Lin Daiyu played by Lettie's poetic temperament among the falling flowers and the harmonious beauty of the picturesque people were exclaimed by the audience that "Lin Daiyu" was reborn. . So far, Lettie is known as "the most beautiful Lin Daiyu", and she is also the only female star who has played Lin Daiyu twice on the movie screen.
In October 1963, Lettie won Taiwan's "Best Actress in the 2nd Golden Horse Awards" with "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and was sealed.
And just when Lettie was about to show off her skills and bring more exciting roles to the audience, she unfortunately died on December 27, 1968. She was only 31 years old, and died earlier than another successful person from the mainland who played Lin Daiyutian. Actor Chen Xiaoxu died young. It's all so regrettable!
