mantilo: a miscellany » Music http://mantilo.com/updates Você diz a verdade / A verdade é seu dom de iludir Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:17:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en About 白光* http://mantilo.com/updates/2006/12/02/about-%e7%99%bd%e5%85%89/ http://mantilo.com/updates/2006/12/02/about-%e7%99%bd%e5%85%89/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:53:15 +0000 Melissa http://mantilo.com/updates/2006/12/02/about-%e7%99%bd%e5%85%89/ Alternate spelling: Bai Guang, Bai Kwong, Pak Kwong
Filed under the shidaiqu/shi dai qu/时代曲 section

Statistics
Name: Bai Guang (白光) nee Shi Yong Fun (史永芬)
DOB: 1920 Beijing, China
Base of operation: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Malaysia
DOD: August 27, 1999 in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia

Famous for her reputation as a vamp on screen and off.
First stage name was Cao Yu (日出)
Stage name means “white light;” allegedly inspired by the white light emitted from movie projectors.
Most of her work was done between the 1940s and 1950s.
Starred in over 30 films/musicals
Married an American pilot in 1953
Opened a nightclub in Tokyo in 1953
Can be found on the Shanghai Lounge Divas compilation
Died of colon cancer
Songs to listen to:
Waiting 4 U
Autumn Evening

Links
Biography
Filmography (selected)
Death announcement
Pathé 100 re-release of album Lian Zhi Huo

Images


Starring in Blood-Stained Begonia (血染海棠红) (1949)

Random image


With Linda Lin Dai (BG, left)

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