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