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  2008-09-17 12:06PM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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         1930s is an era which beauty can only be defined and captured naturally without any forms               of post editing nor enhancements, like we have today. I only get to learn to appreciate deeply these                       legendary actors and actresses, when I become one myself. Hope that with hardwork,                                                    I'll come close to be as good as them.
  
  

  
   

  
  
  Charlie Chaplin - The Tramp

  Charles "Charlie" Chaplin was one of the first              super stars of cinema, and he made the transition from the silent era to the talkies. Charlie Chaplin's silent        classics include: THE KID, ONE A.M., and THE GOLD RUSH.

  When he started doing "talkies", Charlie Chaplin's defining role was in CITY LIGHTS.                                           \ Other notable Charlie Chaplin films include: MODERN TIMES, THE GREAT DICTATOR,                                        and MONSIEUR VERDOUX.

  Many like to think Charlie Chaplin paved the way for other such prodigies like Jerry Lewis,                                           Woody Allen and Robin Williams.                                                                                                                                               But as "People" one quoted, "Unlike them,  unlike anyone else, he got the whole world to agree."

  Clark Gable - Super Star & Best Actor Clark Gable, labeled the "King" of Hollywood,  created an image and legend that                        endured for decades after  his death.                                                                                                         Gable won the Best Actor Award for his performance in  IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.                       His defining role was as Rhett Butler in the classic  GONE WITH THE WIND.                                 Other notable films include: THE MISFITS, which was both Gable's and Marilyn Monroe's last film. Clark Gable's handsomeness and virility, combined with a unique speaking voice and twinkle in the eye, helped build a burning screen presence the brightness of which has dimmed little over the years.

   

  Marilyn Monroe - The most famous in the 20th century

  Marilyn Monroe personified Hollywood  glamour               with an unparalleled glow and energy that enamored the world. Although she was an alluring beauty with voluptuous curves and a generous pout, Marilyn was more than a '50s sex goddess. Her apparent                    vulnerability and innocence, in combination with an innate sensuality, has endeared her to the global consciousness. She dominated the age of movie stars to become, without question, the most famous                woman of the 20th Century.

   

  Lily Yuen Ling Yue -  True goddesses of the Chinese Cinematography

  流金岁月-阮玲玉映像

  The smile of Ruan Lingyu in 1934, a year before her suicide.

  A Cantonese 广东中山 born in Shanghai on April 16, 1910, Ruan
  made her motion picture debut at age 16 in 1926 and quickly became
  a celebrity. But it wasn’t until she signed with the newly founded
  UPS (United Photoplay Service “Lianhua”联华) in 1930 that she
  reached the pinnacle of Shanghai stardom. Over the next five years
  she appeared in a series of socially relevant dramas that were
  critical and box office successes and are now acknowledged as
  classics, movies like Three Modern Girls三个摩登女性 (1932), Toys
  小玩意 (1933), and The Goddess 神女 (1934).
  
  Though the films from the first half of her career have not been
  preserved, many of her UPS pictures still exist, and there are
  occasional surprises. A complete print of the presumably lost Love
  and Duty 恋爱与义务 (1930) was discovered in the 1990s in, of all
  places, Uruguay among the possessions of a late KMT general who had
  emigrated to Latin America. It is the earliest Ruan feature known
  to survive, and shows that at 20 she already possessed a mature
  talent. An unhappy love life, the sting of the gossip-mongering
  press, and the stress facing an actress less-than-fluent in Mandarin
  and unconfident in making the transition to talking pictures took
  their toll. In 1935 Ruan, took her own life and this sent shockwaves through                                                                  the movie community and led to much soul searching in artistic and literary
  circles. More than ten thousand fans attended her funeral and there
  were many declarations that the name “Ruan Lingyu” would never
  be forgotten.
  
  Forgotten she was, though, for her films were not shown for many
  decades. The situation changed with the post-Cultural Revolution
  revival of interest in old Chinese cinema in the 1980s, and Ruan
  became a pop icon in 1991 thanks to a shallow but award-winning
  film biography, Center Stage, starring Maggie Cheung

  . The movie might not have done Ruan Lingyu justice, but it is to be credited
  with making new generations aware of the triumphs and tragedy of
  one of the true goddesses of the Chinese screen.

  流金岁月-阮玲玉映像

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDfcPmvpwDE
  

   

  Recently, a dear friend of mine,  Dennis Chan  (we met when I imgrated to HK seven years ago) 

   

  has a new found hobby - Photography. Knowing that I'm so much in love with the 1930s era,                                  Dennis brings me back to the past.

   

  

   

  

  

  

  

  

  What a talent ~!! Thank you dear for fulfilling my dream ...............

  Will share more photos with U'all later.

   

  Rzy