紫羅蘭 (演員)

简介

Violet Wong (original name: Huang Zi Luo) was a Chinese actress, singer and dancer born in 1915 in Guangdong Province, Panyu District. She began her artistic career at the age of eight when she sang on stage at New Year celebrations in Canton's First Park. She rose to fame through the Tian Yi Shanghai studio film "Ge Tai Chun Se." Her screen debut was in the 1931 silent film "Yin Han Shuang Xing" in which she played the lead role as Li Yueying, and she appeared in over thirty films through "Jiang Hu Tie Han" in 1948. In April 1932, she married Long Qichang, son of the former Governor of Guizhou Province, at a ceremony held at the Kowloon Peninsula Hotel, but they divorced in 1940. After the divorce, she formed the Violet Wong Song and Dance Troupe with Kuang Shanxiao and performed several Cantonese operas at the Bei He Theatre in Kowloon, including "Xi Shi," "Feng Liu Zhen," "Zhi Nu," "Feng Qiu Huang," "Pi Pa Xing," and "Wang Zhao Jun." In September 1940, she traveled with 14 members of her troupe to Bangkok, Thailand to perform at the Nan Xing Theatre for one month. She passed away in the late 1940s.