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Linda Lin Dai
Nanning, Guangxi, China
Linda Lin Dai (Chinese: 林黛; 26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Cheng Yueru (程月如), was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during the 1950s–60s. She was a sta…
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Linda Lin Dai (Chinese: 林黛; 26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Cheng Yueru (程月如), was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during the 1950s–60s. She was a star actress of the Shaw Brothers Studio. She was the daughter of Cheng Siyuan (程思遠), the secretary of the KMT Chinese President Li Zongren, and Vice Chairman of the CPPCC. Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress at the Asia Pacific Film Festival four times for her performances in films produced by Shaw Studio. While 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).
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2003
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
Movie (footage)
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1967
The Mirror
Movie Sun Yu-Hsia
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1966
The Blue and the Black 2
Movie Tang Qi
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1966
The Blue and the Black
Movie Tang Qi
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1965
The Lotus Lamp
Movie Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung
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1964
Beyond the Great Wall
Movie Concubine Wang Chao Chun
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1964
The Last Woman of Shang
Movie Su Da Ji
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1963
Love Parade
Movie Dr Ye De Mei
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1962
Madam White Snake
Movie Pai Su Chen (White Snake)
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1961
Love Without End
Movie Li Qingqing
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1961
The Fair Sex
Movie [Cameo]
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1961
The Swallow
Movie Yin Niu (The Swallow)
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1961
Les Belles
Movie Lan Lan
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1960
Bachelors Beware
Movie
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1959
Desire
Movie Guang Mei Hsi
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1959
Lady on the Roof
Movie Zhao Wenying
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1959
The Kingdom and the Beauty
Movie Li Feng
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1959
Cinderella and her little Angels
Movie Wang Dan Ying
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1958
Diau Charn
Movie 貂蝉
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1958
Laughter and Tears
Movie Tao Gui Ru
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1957
A Mellow Spring
Movie Zi Qin
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1957
The Battle of Love
Movie Yeh Wei-fang
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1957
Lady in Distress
Movie Jin Lan
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1957
Golden Lotus
Movie Jin Lian; Shen Shu Wen
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1957
A Mating Story
Movie Zhu Yu Zhen/Zhang Ma
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1956
The Chase
Movie Zhang Xiu Juan
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1956
Beauty in the Maelstrom
Movie Shi Li Fang
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1956
The Orphan Girl
Movie Mei Jie
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1956
The Fisherman's Daughter
Movie Aying
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1937
三星伴月
Movie 胡意美
