Linda Lin Dai
Date of birth: 1934-12-26
Place of birth: Nanning, Guangxi, China
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Lin Dai, Lam Doi, 林黛, Dai Lin, Lâm Đại
Biography
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).
Movie Credits
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
2003-01-03
Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 7
Love Without End
1961-10-12
Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for
Cinderella and her little Angels
1959-01-30
Lin Fu is a resolutely romantic tailor, who talks to his mannequins and is especially attached to on
Les Belles
1961-02-25
Linda Lin Dai and Fanny Fan join the dancing troupe of Kao Pao-shu. Linda and Kao's son Peter Chen,
Love Parade
1963-01-21
The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Bro
The Mirror
1967-08-11
Property company chairman Hu Zian was attracted to his secretary Sun Yuxia's beauty and competence.
The Last Woman of Shang
1964-09-12
In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyu
Madam White Snake
1962-10-02
This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down v
Diau Charn
1958-05-28
Based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diau Charn is a sublime retelling of a familiar tale with ic
Beyond the Great Wall
1964-11-21
Beyond the Great Wall is a true story based on how Wang Chao-chun sacrificed her love and life for t
The Kingdom and the Beauty
1959-06-29
This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by
A Mating Story
1957-01-30
A Shaw and Sons production.
A Mellow Spring
1957-08-15
A Shaw Brothers production
Lady in Distress
1957-03-28
A Shaw Brothers production.
The Orphan Girl
1956-06-13
Loosely based on Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre.
Beauty in the Maelstrom
1956-10-10
A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people
The Chase
1956-12-19
Private Investigator, Wu Feng, is tasked in tracking down his wife, Zhang Xiu Juan, and collecting e
The Fair Sex
1961-07-21
A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho, Pat Ting Hung, Ding Ling, Fanny Fan Lai and Margaret
Desire
1959-12-22
A Shaw Brothers drama starring Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Ho.
Laughter and Tears
1958-01-23
Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too muc
The Swallow
1961-04-25
The hunt for The Swallow Thief.
The Blue and the Black
1966-06-29
It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occ
The Blue and the Black 2
1966-07-20
War and time change everything. Their love becomes more than reunion, it becomes a reckoning with wh
Golden Lotus
1957-02-14
A Hong Kong historical drama
The Lotus Lamp
1965-07-07
The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is ra
Bachelors Beware
1960-02-02
A woman tries to win a man by scaring off his other girlfriends.
The Battle of Love
1957-05-29
Yeh Wei-fang, a rich young lady, flirts with her suitors and hopes it would make Shi Rongsheng, the
三星伴月
1937-01-01
樑上佳人
1959-11-26
The Fisherman's Daughter
1956-03-10
Painter Wang Zijian is saved from drowning by Aying, the daughter of a fishing folk. Their relations