Linda Lin Dai
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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).
Known for
Credits
Madam White Snake (1962)
as Pai Su Chen (White Snake)
The Lotus Lamp (1965)
as Lady San/Liu Chen-Hsiung
Love Without End (1961)
as Li Qingqing
The Last Woman of Shang (1964)
as Su Da Ji
The Blue and the Black (1966)
as Tang Qi
The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959)
as Li Feng
The Blue and the Black 2 (1966)
as Tang Qi
Beyond the Great Wall (1964)
as Concubine Wang Chao Chun
Les Belles (1961)
as Lan Lan
Diau Charn (1958)
as 貂蝉
The Swallow (1961)
as Yin Niu (The Swallow)
Love Parade (1963)
as Dr Ye De Mei
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio (2003)
as (footage)
A Mating Story (1957)
as Zhu Yu Zhen/Zhang Ma
A Mellow Spring (1957)
as Zi Qin
Beauty in the Maelstrom (1956)
as Shi Li Fang
Lady in Distress (1957)
as Jin Lan
Laughter and Tears (1958)
as Tao Gui Ru
Lady on the Roof (1959)
as Zhao Wenying
The Battle of Love (1957)
as Yeh Wei-fang
The Mirror (1967)
as Sun Yu-Hsia
The Chase (1956)
as Zhang Xiu Juan
The Orphan Girl (1956)
as Mei Jie
The Fair Sex (1961)
as [Cameo]
Golden Lotus (1957)
as Jin Lian; Shen Shu Wen
The Fisherman's Daughter (1956)
as Aying
Cinderella and her little Angels (1959)
as Wang Dan Ying
Bachelors Beware (1960)
Actor
三星伴月 (1937)
as 胡意美
Desire (1959)
as Guang Mei Hsi