die die chinese wade april known english popular chinese actresses 1920s 1930s starred burning red lotus temple started martial arts films red china sound film considered best film voted china movie queen won best actress award asian film festival performance rear door early life born chinese wade shanghai moved father general inspector beijing railway spent northern cities including beijing learned speak perfect later proved great advantage chinese cinema transitioned silent films moved shanghai family china country film actor training school opened student adopted professional die meaning butterfly english pronunciation early career played role film success supporting actress played major role film autumn fell love star relationship work local newspapers filled rumours broke engagement big break signed unique film company major studios shanghai headed tastes common people rapid production films starred films years worked popular considered worthy declined renew contract signed rival led businessman director talented writer salary month large sum time film tower white clouds befriended star women china biggest film stars 1930s role red girl film burning red lotus temple propelled stardom film success studio sequels started martial arts films attracted criticism intellectuals children neglected study martial arts devote martial arts fiction die starred chinese sound film sound disc sound film compared silent era film stars poor transition sound ease appeared sound films able sing flower freedom real sound film higher quality starred played double role twin sisters different personalities film extremely popular won critical acclaim generally considered best film incident september arrived route beijing planning shoot film marriage tears laughter adaptation novel day japanese engineered incident pretext launch invasion young marshal head northeastern army ordered soldiers retreat fight japanese evening japanese took dancing beijing charge threatened damage reputation purchase space shanghai biggest newspaper believed started japanese media order discredit account actors employees years later memoirs people close indicated met life ordered resist stronger enemy movie queen newspaper conducted china public poll popular movie stars fans country japan participated poll results unveiled public ceremony february runaway winner votes twice runner times votes friend received crowned china movie queen european tour february invited join chinese delegation participate moscow international film festival soviet_union film star delegation mainly comprised influential men industry arrived late festival received warm welcome films twin sisters remote valley shown moscow moscow went tour germany france england switzerland italy receiving significant public attention treatment europeans chinese film stars took notes photographs published returning china marriage cousin introduced young employee shanghai trading firm careful personal life relationship progressed slowly autumn announced impending marriage wedding important social event shanghai year famous film stars served child stars flower girls page boys ready retire film industry customary time actress marriage husband support signed contract film year film new contract second sino japanese war broke hard fought completely destroyed shanghai studios sino japanese war invaded occupied shanghai east china fled british hong_kong gave birth daughter boy time pan worked trading firm hong_kong films outbreak pacific war december hong_kong fell japanese japanese pressured documentary film entitled die touring tokyo war propaganda refused collaborator secretly escaped inland war time capital resistance long journey war zone entrusted belongings underground walked hong_kong home day resistance partisans guided stayed year half leaving reach end soon arriving die starred film road nation building aid war effort filming location japanese launched major offensive area film crew lost equipment join tens thousands refugees fleeing war foot road nation building unfinished film later described incident tragic moment life connected powerful spy master previously introduced shanghai colleague married close friend according memoir lieutenant mistress period returned shanghai surrender japan killed plane crash march midst chinese civil war die moved husband hong_kong started company making brand butterfly actively promoted namesake product hong_kong southeast_asia lived happy years pan died soon diagnosed liver cancer husband death returned film industry taking roles older women took time adjust films successor company performance rear door won best actress award seventh asian film festival held tokyo won best film award retired career spanning decades said married admirer named given financial support difficult period following death emigrated vancouver canada join son lived low key life avoided attention dictated memoir appeared taiwan published mainland china died april suffering stroke daughter illegitimate daughter named later renamed born identity father unknown raised foster mother stayed mainland china moved hong_kong married briefly served president years senior died persecuted cultural revolution later buddhist nun
Hu Die