In recent years, more and more oriental faces have appeared in Hollywood movies, and this phenomenon was very rare in the early days. Today we will talk about the first Chinese actress in Hollywood and the first Chinese actress to be named on the Walk of Fame. She is Huang Liushuang.
Huang Liushuang was born in a laundry shop in the United States in January 1905. Huang Liushuang's ancestral home is Guangdong. Huang Liushuang's grandfather immigrated to the United States with the crowd when he was young. In order to make a living in a foreign country, Huang Liushuang's father's generation drove a small laundry to make ends meet. Huang Liushuang was born in such an environment, and the Chinese were still a disadvantaged group overseas at the time. Huang Liushuang's life in American schools was not easy, and she was often bullied and beaten by white classmates. Later, Huang Liushuang's father found out and transferred Huang Liushuang to a Chinese school in Chinatown in order to allow his daughter to have a stable childhood. As the saying goes, children from poor families are in charge early, and so is Huang Liushuang. She has been very well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, often helping the laundry shop at home, and never remembered the public opinions of people around her. Huang Liushuang has an artistic talent since she was very young. In order to have money to go to the movies, she often uses the time of weekends and holidays to send clothes to earn pocket money. In Huang Liushuang's psychology, like thousands of young girls, she has a star dream, dreaming that one day she can stand on the stage and be sought after. Perhaps Huang Liushuang was born to eat this bowl of rice, and was spotted by scouts when he was ten years old.
Huang Liushuang was first discovered by a scout and entered the modeling world and became a child model. This experience made her firmer in her dream of becoming a film actor. Huang Liushuang has also been working hard for this dream. After watching the movie, she often shut herself in the room to imitate, and practiced her expressions and emotions in the mirror thousands of times. But this kind of performance made Huang Liushuang’s parents think that she had a mental problem. In order to prevent Huang Liushuang from continuing to do this, her father once beat her with a whip to stop her actor dream, but Huang Liushuang did not shrink from the obstacles and still insisted on herself. dream. The effort pays off. The 14-year-old Huang Liushuang finally has the opportunity to act in a movie. The first movie she participated in was "Red Lantern". She faced the camera for the first time. Although it was just a silly tactic, there was no line or name, but she The heart is very satisfied. Because Huang Liushuang has Oriental characteristics, many Hollywood directors remember her at a glance. When Huang Liushuang was 17 years old, director Franklin approached her and invited her to participate in a movie with a Chinese story. She was the number one female.
Huang Liushuang became popular in Hollywood because of this role, and later gained a foothold in Hollywood with "The Baghdad Thief". At the age of 20, Huang Liushuang once again opened up European movie coupons and became a hot movie star. However, her own situation is not optimistic, because Chinese actors in Hollywood are discriminated against and their status is not high. As a Chinese actress, there can be no kissing scenes on the screen, and no marriage with white people. No matter how hard Huang Liushuang tries to become famous, she can't join the white circle. Huang Liushuang is destined to be marginalized in the American entertainment industry. Americans discriminate against her, and Chinese people do not wait to see her, because many of Huang Liushuang's roles tend to humiliate oriental women.
Later, in the "Shanghai Express" played by Huang Liushuang, her image of a woman from the wind reflected the degeneration of oriental humanity, and her image in China plummeted, and the film she played was included in the banned list. In order to restore the impression of the people of her, Huang Liushuang played a lot of positive images during the Anti-Japanese War, but there was no effect. Huang Liushuang has been struggling under the cross-examination of East and West all his life, and has become a survivor in the cracks. Because Chinese women cannot intermarry with whites, Huang Liushuang has been alone all his life, and has no children and never married. On February 2, 1961, Huang Liushuang passed away, and her ashes were sent to Los Angeles to be buried with her mother. But only his mother's name is on the tombstone, because Huang Liushuang asked himself to be in the dust without a name or surname. Huang Liushuang's life is outstanding, but he has suffered countless grievances. This is the sadness of an era.
