actress chinese wade april chinese film actress world war secret agent known standard beauty active film industry years quit acting suicide great star husband father chinese pop music second sino japanese war second husband lieutenant general ostensibly served japanese controlled puppet regime secretly worked agents resistance based communist victory chinese civil war defected severely persecuted cultural revolution died prison husband survived lived early life born poor family shanghai original called poverty began working british owned egg factory age later able attend school family fortunes improved attended run considered father chinese pop music joined bright moon song dance troupe toured cities china southeast_asia married years senior gave birth daughter named film career recruited join studio famous starring silent film appeared probably earliest female bath scene history chinese cinema later year starred feather mount starred popular patriotic films northwest colleagues bright moon troupe earliest stars portray vibrant sexy country girl prototype popular figures chinese cinema later inherited cinema hong_kong widely known standard beauty ceremony held crown beauty queen far east strongly disapproved coronation objections raised shocked public exhibiting nude referring bath scene suicide actress caused women commit suicide miles long funeral procession major impact quit acting finishing film daughter directed critically acclaimed considered best film sudden death daughter caused breakdown marriage couple divorced november year divorce requested compensation investment training secret agent married lieutenant general prominent family notorious playboy close friend chief secret service assistant secret agent shanghai reported stories sharing bed sure introduced movie queen die later spy chief mistress year wedding second sino japanese war erupted attacked shanghai august national capital december older brother general chief commander doomed defense resulted massacre deputy commander chief commander surrendered japanese recruited serve regime puppet government established japan occupied appointed commander public security wife close friend wives leaders puppet regime widely condemned chinese public publicly renounced relationship brother sister law surrender japan end world war government revealed sent serve secret agents regime couple took great personal risks obtain intelligence japanese spies troop movements pass resistance reportedly discovered identity japanese spy playing wife personally delivered messages chinese agents shanghai urgent situations clear communists winning chinese civil war moved family shanghai went join surrender governor communists brother surrendered appointed deputy commander fought battles troops provinces appointed moved husband beijing cultural revolution started wife minor actress shanghai 1930s began colleagues familiar past husband imprisoned criminal charges april died prison years torture age survived tumultuous period lived
Xu Lai (actress)