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  Ruan Lingyu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruan Lingyu (Chinese: 阮玲玉; Pinyin: Ruǎn Língyù; April 26, 1910 - March 8, 1935) was a Chinese film actress.
Ruan's private life was mercilessly hoarded upon and her on-going law-suit with her first husband a source of vindictive coverage.
Faced with these and with intense private problems, Ruan poisoned herself with an overdose of barbiturates in Shanghai on March 8, 1935, at the age of 24.
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 Ruan Lingyu @ Filmbug
Ruan Lingyu (April 26, 1910 - March 8, 1935) was a Chinese silent film actress, one of the most prominent of the 1930s.
Born as Ruan Fenggeng in Shanghai, Ruan made her first film at the age of 16 for the then prominent studio, the Mingxing Studio.
Her next film, Shennü (The Goddess, 1934; dir: Wu Yonggang), is often hailed as the pinnacle of Chinese silent cinema, with Ruan's portrayal of a sympathetic prostitute one of the classics of the era.
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 Ruan Lingyu - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
Ruan realized that she couldn't rely on him anymore and thus, she began to seek for job to support her family.
Ruan Lingyu began her acting career in The MingXing Studio, the prominent studio at that time, and appeared in 5 films.
Ruan's career was at a low ebb for quite a long time until she join the newly established progressive studio, LianHua film studio(UPS) in 1930, the place where her golden era began and remained for the rest of her career.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=44872   (627 words)

  
 Mitch Berman - Immoral Woman (a.k.a.Interview with an Angel)
Ruan Lingyu had not told me to hail the taxi, merely to be there.
Ruan Lingyu allowed the ball to drop between the flippers, and said, “It is hard for me to lose at ‘Immoral Woman.’ Go ahead,” she told me, stepping to the side and reclaiming her ivory cigarette holder, “play the game.”
The room’s furniture was old, and the chair in which Ruan Lingyu had been sitting was upholstered in threadbare green velvet.
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 Tales of Old Shanghai - Ruan Lingyu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ruan Ling-yu was one of the greatest Shanghai movie idols of the 1930s.
She was born in the city on April 26, 1910 of Cantonese ancestry and her life was full of tragedy almost from the beginning, giving Ruan a tragic depth which she was able to transfer on to the screen.
Her father died when she was six, and her mother moved away from Shanghai the following year to work.
www.earnshaw.com /shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-peop06.htm   (188 words)

  
 Ruan Lingyu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ruan Lingyu was one of the last of the silent divas, still appearing in silent films as late as 1935.
She was a huge star of the Shanghai cinema, and was compared to both Garbo and Gish for her suffering heroines.
She was the subject of the film Stanley Kwan's 1991 film Centre Stage (Ruan Ling-yu, or The Actress), starring Maggie Cheung.
www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/Ruan.htm   (249 words)

  
 Ruan Lingyu: Update filmography @ Filmbug
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 Lingyu Ruan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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