朱劍琴

简介

Chu Kim Kam, also known by her original name Chu Pui Sui, was a Chinese film actress active in Hong Kong cinema during the 1930s and 1940s. She studied classical Chinese literature at Xiangfu School on Hong Kong Island and learned swimming at the Chinese Christian Church swimming facility under Mr. Chan Sai Pui. She then studied acting at a film training institute opposite her school. Her screen debut was in the Cantonese comedy "Ah Lan Sells Pigs" released in Hong Kong in 1935, in which she played the lead role. She achieved fame through the Cantonese comedy "Twelve Beauties in the Golden House" in 1937, in which she performed a film-within-a-film scene based on the story of Zhuo Wenjun eloping with Sima Xiangru. Chu Kim Kam married actor Chu Ban after working with him in this film. She played a dancer in "Flowers Splashing Tears" in 1939 with Zhongyi Company. Her final film was the Cantonese comedy "Grudges and Kindness Tonight" released in 1948. Chu Kim Kam owned a small American Morris car.