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Ruan Lingyu is a Actor and Costumer Chinoise born on 25 april 1910 at Shanghai (Chine)

Ruan Lingyu

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Birth name Ruan Fenggeng
Nationality Chine
Birth 25 april 1910 at Shanghai (Chine)
Death 8 march 1935 (at 24 years) at Shanghai (Chine)

Ruan Lingyu (April 26, 1910 – March 8, 1935) was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her suicide at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.

Biography

Il existe peu de sources sur la vie professionnelle ou personnelle de Ruan Lingyu et de nombreuses biographies publiées en chinois relèvent pour une bonne part de la légende.

Sa famille est d'origine cantonaise et elle aurait elle-même parlé le cantonais. Son père Ruan Yongrong après son arrivée à Shanghai exerce divers métiers puis travaille comme machiniste pour une compagnie pétrolière. Il épouse en 1906 He Aying. Ses parents ont déjà une fille lorsque Ruan Lingyu naît en 1910. Le prénom qui lui est donné est Fenggen (凤根, prénom à connotation masculine). La famille vit dans un quartier pauvre de Shanghai, celui de Hongkou. Ruan Lingyu est victime de la variole en 1910, puis de la fièvre typhoïde. Une maladie emporte sa sœur, alors âgée de trois ans, en 1911. Des conditions de vie difficiles provoquent la mort de son père en 1915.

Sa mère devient domestique chez les Zhang, famille originaire de Canton. Ruan Lingyu, qui adopte alors le prénom de Yuying, fréquente entre huit et quinze ans une école pour filles, tenue par des baptistes cantonais. L'enseignement s'y fait sur le modèle américain : sciences modernes, mathématiques, anglais, éducation physique. Elle découvre durant cette période le cinéma.

En 1925, Ruan Lingyu se met en ménage avec Zhang Damin, l'un des fils de la famille employant sa mère. Son concubin, sans emploi, vit aux crochets de la jeune actrice. Elle tente de mettre fin à leur relation en 1933, par contrat. Elle devient alors la maîtresse d'un homme mariée, riche marchand. Zhang, à court d'argent, intente un procès à son ancienne compagne et expose leur vie privée à la presse.

Usually with

Bu Wancang
Bu Wancang
(4 films)
Jin Yan
Jin Yan
(5 films)
Li Lili
Li Lili
(4 films)
Wu Yonggang
Wu Yonggang
(1 films)
Lai Man-Wai
Lai Man-Wai
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ruan Lingyu (12 films)

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Actress

Center Stage, 2h47
Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Carina Lau, Chin Han, Lawrence Ng, Cecilia Yip
Roles Herself (archive footage)
Rating73% 3.695673.695673.695673.695673.69567
Stanley Kwan met en scène entre documentaires, interviews et images d'archives ce qu'était la vie de Ruan Lingyu, grande actrice du cinéma muet du Shanghaï des années 1920, que l'on aimait comparer à Greta Garbo.
Street Angel, 1h27
Directed by Yuan Muzhi
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Zhou Xuan, Ruan Lingyu, Zhao Dan
Rating69% 3.4885153.4885153.4885153.4885153.488515
The film deals with two sisters, Xiao Hong (Zhou Xuan) and Xiao Yun (Zhao Huishen) who have fled from the war in Northeast China to Shanghai, where they are living under the brutal thumb of their adoptive parents. Xiao Yun has already been forced into prostitution while her sister serves as a teahouse singer. Soon the sisters realize that the adoptive parents have decided to sell Xiao Hong to a wealthy patron, whereupon they seek the aid of their neighbors, a street musician, Xiao Chen (Zhao Dan), and his misfit friends.
National Customs, 1h34
Actors Li Lili, Ruan Lingyu, Zheng Junli
Roles Zhang Lan
Rating59% 2.9689352.9689352.9689352.9689352.968935
New Women
New Women (1935)
, 1h46
Directed by Cai Chusheng
Genres Drama
Actors Ruan Lingyu, Zheng Junli
Roles Wei Ming
Rating68% 3.421383.421383.421383.421383.42138
The film deals with an educated and modern young woman, Wei Ming (Ruan Lingyu), living in 1920s Shanghai. As the film begins, Wei Ming is working as a music teacher for a school, even as she harbors dreams of becoming a writer. In the film's opening scene, Wei Ming meets a friend, Yu Haichou (Zheng Junli) and an old schoolmate, Zhang Xiuzhen (Wang Moqiu), now named Mrs. Wang, on a trolley-car.
The Goddess, 1h25
Directed by Wu Yonggang
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Ruan Lingyu
Roles The Goddess
Rating75% 3.7970553.7970553.7970553.7970553.797055
A never-named young woman (Ruan Lingyu) works as a prostitute to support herself and her baby son Shuiping. One night, fleeing from a police street sweep, she hides in the room of a gambler named Zhang (Zhang Zhizhi). When he suggests she stay the night with him for not betraying her to the police, she agrees. Later, however, he and two of his pals show up at her place. He makes it clear that he considers her his property. The woman attempts to flee, but Zhang tracks her down and frightens her by claiming to have sold Shuiping to punish her. Zhang returns the child, but he has made his point; she realizes she cannot protect her son from him and gives in. However, she manages to hide some of her earnings behind a loose brick in her wall.
Little Toys, 1h54
Directed by Sun Yu
Genres Drama
Actors Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili
Roles Sister Ye
Rating68% 3.42573.42573.42573.42573.4257
Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. She is considered the creative mind behind inventing new toys, and all the villagers look up to her. Tragedy strikes, however, when Sister Ye's husband dies of an unknown illness, and while Ye is attending to him, her son is kidnapped and sold to a wealthy lady in the city of Shanghai. Shortly after, the village is destroyed during an attack between rival warlords, forcing the villagers move to the city, where they continue to make toys.
Chengshi zhi ye, 1h5
Directed by Fei Mu
Genres Drama
Actors Ruan Lingyu, Jin Yan
Roles 女工

The film tells the story of a poor family living in China's slums. The daughter, played by Ruan Lingyu, is forced to work at the docks. When it is learned that the slum's landlord is preparing to demolish the entire tenement, the daughter is forced to give up her body to her landlord's son in exchange for a delay in construction. By the end of the film, the daughter, her family, and the landlord's son all leave the city for what they hope will be a better life in the country.
The Peach Girl, 1h40
Directed by Bu Wancang
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ruan Lingyu, Jin Yan
Roles Miss Lim
Rating68% 3.4249453.4249453.4249453.4249453.424945
The film deals with an innocent country girl (Ruan Lingyu), who is corrupted by a landlord's son (Jin Yan).
A Spray of Plum Blossoms, 1h40
Directed by Bu Wancang
Genres Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Ruan Lingyu, Jin Yan, Li Lili, Mei Lanfang
Roles Hu Zhuli / Julia
Rating59% 2.9616252.9616252.9616252.9616252.961625
The film tells the story of Bai Lede (Wang Chilong) and Hu Luting (Jin Yan), two military cadets who have been friends since they were children. After graduating, Hu, a playboy uninterested in love, is appointed as a captain in Guangdong and leaves his home town in Shanghai. Bai however, deeply in love with Hu's sister, Hu Zhuli (Ruan Lingyu) stays behind. At Guangdong, Hu falls in love with the local general's daughter, Shi Luohua (Lin Chuchu), although the general, Shi (Wang Guilin), is unaware of the relationship, and instead wants his daughter to marry the foolish Liao Di'ao (Gao Zhanfei). Meanwhile, Bai's father uses his influence to get Bai posted to Guangdong, and after a sorrowful farewell between himself and Zhuli, he arrives at his new post and instantly falls in love with Luohua. In an effort to have her for himself, Bai betrays his friend, by informing General Shi of his daughter's plans to elope with Hu, leading to Shi dishonourably discharging Hu. Bai tries to win Luohua over, but she is uninterested, only concerned with lamenting the loss of Hu. In the meantime, Hu encounters a group of bandits who ask him to be their leader, to which he agrees, planning on returning for Luohua at some point in the future. Some time passes, and one day, as Luohua, Bai and Liao are passing through the forest, they are attacked. Luohua manages to flee, and Bai pursues her into the forest. They engage in an argument, but just as Bai seems about to lose his temper, Hu intervenes, and he and Luohua are reunited. General Shi arrives in time to see Liao flee the scene, and he now realises that he was wrong to get in the way of the relationship between Hu and his daughter. Hu then forgives Bai his betrayal, and Bai reveals that he has discovered that his only true love is in fact Zhuli back in Shanghai.
Love and Duty, 2h32
Directed by Bu Wancang
Genres Drama
Actors Ruan Lingyu, Jin Yan
Roles Yang Nai Fan
Rating71% 3.554543.554543.554543.554543.55454
The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film details the poverty she must endure for breaking with tradition.

Costume and makup

Hot Rod
Hot Rod (2007)
, 1h28
Directed by Akiva Schaffer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films
Actors Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Isla Fisher, Ian McShane
Roles Costumer
Rating66% 3.3484253.3484253.3484253.3484253.348425
Throughout his entire life, Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) has believed his father, now deceased, was a successful and respectable stuntman working for Evel Knievel. He aspires to follow in his father's footsteps and become a famous stuntman himself. Meanwhile, his stepfather Frank (Ian McShane) fails to respect Rod as a man, often going out of his way to beat him in sparring sessions and mocking his stuntman dream. Rod makes many attempts at landing jumps with his Tomos moped, most of them ending unsuccessfully. After an ill-fated jump attempt at the public pool, he returns home to find out that Frank is in urgent need of a heart transplant. Angry at the thought of his stepfather dying without getting a chance to "smash his face in" and gain his respect, Rod tells his childhood friends Rico (Danny McBride), Dave (Bill Hader) and his half-brother Kevin (Jorma Taccone) about his plan to do a jump over the length of fifteen school buses, and give the proceeds to his stepfather's surgery. He also adds Denise (Isla Fisher), his college-graduate neighbor on whom he has a crush, to his crew.