Linda Lin Dai (; 26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Ching Yuetyue (程月如), was a Chinese actress of

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made in

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during the 1950s–60s. She was a star actress of the

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. She was the daughter of Cheng Siyuan (程思遠), the secretary of the

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Chinese President

Li Zongren Li Zongren or Li Tsung-jen (; 13 August 1890 – 30 January 1969), courtesy name Telin (Te-lin; ), was a prominent Guangxi warlord and Kuomintang (KMT) military commander during the Northern Expedition, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese C ...

, and Vice Chairman of the

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. Lin Dai was awarded the Best Actress at the

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four times for her performances in films produced by

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. While she attended short courses on drama and linguistics at

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in 1958, she met and fell in love with Long Shengxun, the son of

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who was a former governor of

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province. They married on 12 February 1961 in

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. 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).

Filmography

*''Singing Under The Moon (Cui Cui)'', 1953 *''Spring Is in the Air'', 1954 *''Love Is Like A Running Brook'', 1956 *''Golden Lotus (Jin Lian Hua)'', 1957 *''Lady in Distress'', 1957 *''Scarlet Doll (Hong Wa)'', 1958 *''Laughter And Tears'', 1958 *'' Diau Charn (Diao Chan)'', 1958 *''Cinderella And Her Little Angels'', 1959 *''

The Kingdom and the Beauty ''The Kingdom and the Beauty'' () is a 1959 Hong Kong musical-drama film directed by Li Han-hsiang. The film was set in Imperial China, directed by a Hong Kong based-Mainland Chinese director and produced by the famed Hong Kong Shaw Brothers fil ...

(Jiang Shan Mei Ren)'', 1959 *''Spring Frolic'', 1959 *''Bachelors Beware'', 1960 *''Les Belles (Qian Jiao Bai Mei)'', 1961 *'' Love Without End'' (He Qing Qing), 1961 *''The Swallow'', 1961 *''Madame White Snake (Bai She Zhuan)'', 1962 *''Love Parade'', 1963 *''The Last Woman of Shang'', 1964 *''Beyond The Great Wall'', 1964 *''The Lotus Lamp'', 1965 *''The Blue and the Black (Lan Yu Hei)'', 1966 *'' The Mirror (Xie hen jing)'', 1967

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