Li Li Hua obit

Li Li Hua 李麗華 (1924 - 2017) R.I.P.

 

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Born in 1924 in China, Li Li Hua made her first movie in 1940, just before World War II. Three Smiles it was called.  She was only 16 but with a whole lot of acting experience since she started acting at four.

Because of her training in Peking (Beijing) Opera she was able to maintain her journey through the tough film industry acting in 120 movies within 4 decades.

There were many 'firsts' in this illustrious lady's career. She starred in the first colour movie made in Hong Kong, Blood Will Tell (1955); the first Chinese actress to star in a Hollywood movie, China Doll (1958) with Victor Mature.

She acted in a Chinese movie that won a Cannes Award, The Magnificent Concubine (1962) and walked on the famed Cannes red carpet. Could she be the first Chinese actress to be fully undressed in a Shaw Brothers' movie?

A very young Jackie Chan had acted in 3 movies with her.  Cecil B. De Mille, Yul Brynner and Clark Gable were some of her admirers.

She was under Great Wall, a China controlled movie company but was later under the banner of Shaw Brothers film based in Hong Kong and Singapore.

She married thrice and her second husband Yen Chun was another famous actor; they had acted in many movies together.

According to a Chinese newspaper report, she had an apartment in Singapore opposite the American Club in Claymore Hill. She used to frequent this island but because of her health had lived in Hong Kong since.

She passed away in Hong Kong at 92 years in March 2017.

She was also a celebrated singer, having recorded a good number of songs that were just as popular as her movies. Those years a movie had its own theme song usually sung by the main star.

In 1994, at 70 years, she recorded again and had more than a dozen of her classic songs but adding 3 more to her already popular repertoire for EMI, Singapore.

Actress (89 credits)

 2015 Du Li Zhong Dui

 1982 Streamrolling (as Li-Hua Li)

 1978 Xin hong lou meng

Lady Jia

 1976 Boxer Rebellion

Dowager Empress

 1975 The Legend of Mother Goddess

 1975 Die hai ying hao

 1973 The Fate of Lee Khan

Wan Jen-mi

 1972 Jin mei gui

 1971 Da di chun lei

 1971 Liu fu cha lou

 1971 The Longest Appointment

 1971 Jin yu man tang

 1971 Wu dui jia ou

 1970 Changjiang yi hao

 1970 Jin ye zi

 1970 Four Moods (Bliss)

 1970 Yi feng qing bao bai wan bing

 1970 Gui hu wai zhuan

 1969 Storm Over the Yangtse River

Chuo Chien Lu

 1967 Lian suo

Yang Yu-wei

 1967 Dao jian

 1967 The Goddess of Mercy

Princess Miao Shang

 1965 Qi qi gan si dui

 1965 Nu hai qing chou

Madam Chang

 1965 Hong ling lei

 1964 Liang Shan Po and Chu Ying Tai

Liang Shanbo

 1964 Wan gu liu fang

Chuan Ji, the Princess

 1964 Xin ti xiao yin yuan

 1963 Di er chun

Hsu Mei-Fen

 1963 Meng Li Jun

 1963 Yi mao qian

 1963 The Story of Ching Hsian-Lien

Chin Hsiang Lien

 1963 Yan xi jiao

Yen Hsi-Ciro

 1963 Yang Nai Wu yu Xiao Bai Cai

Hsiao Pai Tsai

 1963 Empress Wu

Wu Tse-Tien

 1962 Hei hu li

 1962 The Magnificent Concubine

Yang Kwei Fei

 1961 The Pistol

 1960 Hei ye qiang sheng

 1959 Feng yu gui zhou

 1959 Gui fu feng liu

Anna Kang

 1958 Lu Si Niang

Lu Si-Niang

 1958 Yin hai sheng ge

 1958 China Doll

Shu-Jen

 1958 Yuanyuan Hong

 1957 Tian zuo zhi he

 1956 Niang Re yu Ke Ke

Chen Hu-niang

 1956 Hei niu

 1956 Hu die fu ren

Cio Cio San

 1956 Dangerous Beauty

 1956 Feng yu niu che shui

Chiang Li-chen (as Li-Hua Li)

 1956 Mang lian

Lu Wei-tsui

 1956 Lian zhi huo

 1956 Xue li hong

 1955 Blood Will Tell

 1955 Ying du yan ji

 1955 Cha hua nu

 1955 Xiao feng xian xu ji

 1955 Xiao bai cai

 1954 Yi ming jing ren

Xiuxiu

 1954 Chun qing lie huo

Yao Li-na

 1954 The Mortal Wind

 1954 Mei gui mei gui wo ai ni

 1953 Han chan qu

 1953 Xiao feng xian

 1953 Bi yun tian

Ting Hsiao-tsui / Ku Lan-fang

 1953 Nie hai qing tian

Zhu Liyu

 1953 Wu shan meng

Mingying

 1952 Gou hun yan qu

Kong Ku-lan

 1952 Hong mei gui

Hung Mei-guei

 1952 Bai jin de ren

Chen Mei-ling

 1952 Shi li chuan jia

 1952 Xin hong lou meng

 1951 The Flower Girl

Hua Feng Hsien

 1951 Huo feng huang

 1950 Hao men nie zhai

 1950 The Awful Truth

Su Man Na

 1950 Spring Comes and Winter Goes

 1949 Hai shi

Sister Chiu

 1949 Chun lei

Li Hanfen

 1948 Qian li song Jing Niang

 1947 Barber Takes a Wife

Fa Ju Hua

 1947 San nu xing

Wu Jianhua

 1944 Noroshi wa Shanghai ni agaru

Wang Ying

 1942 Bo ai

 1942 Hua yue liang xiao

 1942 Spring

 1941 Ying lie zhuan

Chen Hsiu YIng

 1940 San xiao xu ji