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Dan Duyu
Dan Duyu (但杜宇; 1897–1972), also romanized as Dan Do-yu, was a Chinese film director and cinematographer who directed more than 30 films from 1922 to 1952. He was married to film actress Yin Mingzhu (who starred in his 1927 film '' The Cave of the Silken Web''). Their daughter Judy Dan Judy Dan (; born September 9, 1930) is a Chinese-American actress. Biography Judy Dan was born in Shanghai on September 9, 1930, the daughter of film director Dan Duyu and actress Yin Mingzhu, and was raised in Hong Kong. She worked for Cathay P ... appeared in many American films. External links * * 1897 births 1972 deaths People from Nanchang Film directors from Jiangxi Chinese cinematographers Chinese film directors Chinese silent film directors {{china-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan (name)
Dan is a given name and surname in various cultures. Given name Origins as a given name Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with several disputed origins. The most likely being that it originated from the Old Norse nam for Danes. This in turn originated from the Proto-Germanic Masculine wor"Daniz" There are several historical variants including "Halbadaniz". Meaning; "Half-Dane". Alongsid"Daniskaz" where the "Iskaz" suffix refers to the term "Ish" ("modernised as Danish"). The name Dan is also a Hebrew given name, after Dan, the fifth son of Jacob with Bilhah and founder of the Israelite Tribe of Dan. It is also (along with the variant Danny) a given name or a nickname for people named Daniel. Surname Origins As an English surname, Dan is a variant spelling of Dann. Dann, another variant spelling of which is Dane, is a toponymic surname which derives from the Old-Norse and earlier as the Proto-Germanic word . It also originates from the Middle English and Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yin Mingzhu
Yin Mingzhu (; 1904–1989), also known as Pearl Ing, was a Chinese actress. Mingzhu was most famous for her role as an actress but was also an investor and production coordinator specifically during her time off camera in the 1930s. She was the mother of beauty contest winner and actress Judy Dan. Early life and education Mingzhu was born, Yin Shangzian, in 1904 in Wujiang, now part of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province of China. She moved to Shanghai at a young age. Mingzhu came from a distinguished family as her father was a well known painter and members of her family from the past three generations had been members of the Hanlin Academy, an academy known for being prestigious within academics and administration. Mingzhu's father died when she was a child, leaving her mother a winning lottery ticket which allowed her to move the entire family to Shanghai. In Shanghai, Mingzhu was a top student at McTyeire School for Girls where she learned new ideas and manners. Biography Before fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cave Of The Silken Web (1927 Film)
''The Cave of the Silken Web'' () a.k.a. ''Journey to the West - the Spiders Cave'' () a.k.a. ''Spiders'' is a 1927 Chinese film directed by Dan Duyu and starring Yin Mingzhu as the first spider spirit. It is based on an episode of the shenmo fantasy novel ''Journey to the West'', a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty. The ten-reel silent film was produced by Shanghai Yingxi Company. It was thought to be a lost film, until 2011, when an original copy of ''The Cave of the Silken Web'' was discovered in the archives of the National Library in Mo i Rana, Norway. The film was presented at the Films from the South 2013 festival in Oslo. Roughly three-quarters of the film is preserved, the first reel and a section in the middle is lost. The Norwegian copy has retained the original Chinese intertitles, but includes additional jokes in Norwegian written for the local audience. Cast * Yin Mingzhu as First Spider Spirit * Xia Peizhen as Second Spider Spirit * Wu Wench ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Dan
Judy Dan (; born September 9, 1930) is a Chinese-American actress. Biography Judy Dan was born in Shanghai on September 9, 1930, the daughter of film director Dan Duyu and actress Yin Mingzhu, and was raised in Hong Kong. She worked for Cathay Pacific where she was talent spotted. In 1952, she won the Miss Hong Kong Pageant, then known as the Miss Hong Kong Beauty Contest, and was third runner-up at the Miss Universe 1952 contest. Her participation and finish in the Miss Universe competition brought her a contract with 20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Dis ... film studio. Other Dan studied drama at George Pepperdine College and appeared in three plays during her two-and-one-half years there. Personal life Dan married Tom Woo, an architect in West Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Deaths
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Nanchang
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Directors From Jiangxi
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Cinematographers
Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of various ethnicities in contemporary China ** Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in the world and the majority ethnic group in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Singapore ** Ethnic minorities in China, people of non-Han Chinese ethnicities in modern China ** Ethnic groups in Chinese history, people of various ethnicities in historical China ** Nationals of the People's Republic of China ** Nationals of the Republic of China ** Overseas Chinese, Chinese people residing outside the territories of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan * Sinitic languages, the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family ** Chinese language, a group of related languages spoken predominantly in China, sharing a written script (Chinese c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Film Directors
''The following is a list of notable film directors from Mainland China.'' B *Bu Wancang (1903–1974) C *Cai Chusheng (1906–1968), major leftist filmmaker in the 1930s, later fell victim to the Cultural Revolution. *Cai Shangjun, Chinese screenwriter and director *Cao Baoping *Joan Chen (born 1961), Chinese actress and director. *Chen Kaige (born 1952), major figure of the Fifth Generation, his epic ''Farewell My Concubine'' was the first Chinese film to win Cannes' coveted Palme d'Or. *Chen Liting (1910–2013) major figure of the second generation. *Cheng Bugao (1893–1966) D *Dai Sijie (born 1954), French novelist and director, born in China. *Diao Yi'nan (born 1969), screenwriter and director. *Domee Shi (born 1989), Chinese-Canadian storyboard artist and director, first woman director of a Pixar short film, Bao (film) F *Feng Gong (born 1957), comedic actor and sometimes-director. *Feng Xiaoning (born 1954), art designer turned director, part of the 1982 graduating cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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