Yang Naimei (; 1904 – December 27, 1960) was an actress of China's
silent film
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...
era. She starred in such well-received films as ''
The Soul of Yuli'' (1924), ''
Lonely Orchid'' (1926), ''
Spring Dream by the Lakeside'' (1927) and ''
The Young Mistress' Fan'' (1928).
In 1926–28 Yang played lead roles in films which put her among the top-ranked Chinese film actresses of the 1920s.
Career
Yang's breakthrough role was in ''
The Soul of Yuli'' (1924), where she played a dissolute playgirl who wouldn't settle down after marriage. Yang then played lead roles in ''
The Poor Children'' and ''
Lured into Marriage''.
In 1928 Yang opened the Naimei Film Company which produced one film in the same year, ''An Extraordinary Woman'' ( zh, c=奇女子). She would tour
Nanyang
Nanyang is the romanization of two common Chinese place names. It may refer to:
Written as
* Nanyang (region), a Chinese term denoting the Southeast Asian lands surrounding the South China Sea
;China
* Nanyang Fleet, Qing dynasty naval fleet bas ...
(Chinese communities in modern-day Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) between 1929 and 1931 to promote the film.
Yang retired from acting in the mid-1930s.
References
External links
Yang Naimei 杨耐梅: A Playgirl's Brief CandleYang Naimei at wfpp.columbia.eduNai-Mei Yang at imdb.com
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Chinese silent film actresses
1904 births
1960 deaths
Chinese film actresses
Actresses from Shanghai
20th-century Chinese actresses
Women film pioneers
Chinese women screenwriters
20th-century Chinese screenwriters