童月娟

简介

Tong Yuejuan was born in 1914 in Hangzhou under her original name Wan Xiuying, while Tong Yuejuan is her stage name. She left Hangzhou for Shanghai in 1929 to train in acting and participate in Peking opera performances, then moved to modern theatre. In 1931, she produced and performed in a new play "Not Loving the Kingdom but Loving the Beauty" which achieved great success, drawing the attention of Shanghai's entertainment circles and leading her into the film industry. She married the renowned film producer Zhang Shankun in 1933 and transitioned to working behind the camera. In 1934, she helped her husband establish the Xinhua Film Company in Shanghai, where they produced various films including opera adaptations, patriotic and political films, and commercial films. During World War II, she participated under a pseudonym in the Kuomintang's underground anti-Japanese activities in Shanghai. In 1946, she and her husband emigrated to Hong Kong due to the Chinese Civil War and reestablished film production companies there. She produced commercially and politically successful films in Hong Kong. After her husband's death in 1957, she managed the Xinhua Film Company in Hong Kong and produced famous films including "Blood and Yellow Flowers" about the Huanghuagang uprising. She received the "Special Producer Award" at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival in 1969. In 1973, she entered politics and became the first actress to hold a central government representative position in Taiwan in the early 1980s. She passed away in 2003 in Shanghai at the age of 89 and was buried in Taipei.