Lin Dai
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| Chinese name | 林黛 (Traditional) | ||
| Chinese name | 林黛 (Simplified) | ||
| Birth name | Cheng Yueru (程月如) | ||
| Born | 26 December 1934 Guilin, Guangxi, China |
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| Died | 17 July 1964 (aged 29) Hong Kong |
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| Years active | 1953–1964 | ||
| Spouse(s) | Long Shengxun, married on 12 February 1961, widowed on 17 July 1964, died on 2 April 2007 (marriage lasted for 3 years, 156 days) | ||
| Children | Long Zhonghan, born on 6 April 1963 | ||
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Linda Lin Dai (Chinese: 林黛 26 December 1934–17 July 1964) was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during 1950s–60s. She was a star actress in the Shaw Brothers Studio stable.
Born Cheng Yueru (程月如) in Guilin, Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress at the Asia Pacific Film Festival four times for her outstanding performances in a number of films produced by Shaw Studio. Whilst she attended short courses on drama and linguistics at Columbia University, New York in 1958, she met and fell in love with Long Shengxun, the son of Long Yun who was a former governor of China's Yunnan province. They married on 12 February 1961 in Hong Kong.
She committed suicide at home in Hong Kong in July 1964, using an overdose of sleeping pills and inhalation of methane gas, due to family matters referred by the media as "trivial". Her death shocked the Chinese community. She left behind two unfinished films, The Lotus Lamp and Blue And Black (I and II).
[edit] Filmography
- Singing Under The Moon (Cui Cui), 1953
- Golden Lotus (Jin Lian Hua), 1957
- Scarlett Doll (Hong Wa), 1958
- Diau Charn (Diao Chan), 1958
- The Kingdom and the Beauty (Jiang Shan Mei Ren), 1959
- Les Belles (Qian Jiao Bai Mei), 1961
- Love Without End (Bu Liao Qing), 1961
- Madame White Snake (Bai She Zhuan), 1962
- Blue and Black (Lan Yu Hei), 1966
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Linda Lin Dai |
- Lin Dai at the Internet Movie Database
- Linda Lin Dai's Memorial Web
- 四届影后林黛, Sohu.com
- 林黛, Baidu.com
- 银幕绝色美人 四届亚太影后林黛自杀之, hinews.cn
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