"These are the stills when she began filming at 16." "Some of the prints are no longer available." "Most of the pictures were folklore, romances even spooky and militant." "They say she was mostly given casual roles or wallflowers as we call them now." "Only afterjoining Lienhua in 1929 did she have a chance to be in serious films." "Isn't she a replica of myself?" "Ruan killed herself over half a century ago but people still remember her as a movie star." "Maggie, may I ask if you wish to be remembered half a century later?" "That's not so important to me." "If future people do remember me it won't be the same as Ruan Ling-yu." "As she halted her career at the age of 25 when she was at her most glorious." "Now she is a legend." "Miss Ruan plays bad woman to perfection." "Yet I agree with Sun Yu." "She is better playing a noble lady." "Still, I can't explain her fascination." "Let's try." "Min-wei, Lienhua is to start a new film "Reminiscences Of Peking"." "Ruan should have no problem playing a prostitute." "Then we make her big with "Wayside Flowers"." "Change of role." "She's a chaste songstress." "It'd be terrific if we can make it." "It means we have another movie queen Hu Ti." "Must be better than Hu Ti." "Lienhua aims to revive Chinese movie industry with good pictures." "Box office is a must." "We must have good stars and directors." "We've got good directors, Pu and Sun." "We go to Peking to film snow scenes for "Reminiscences Of Peking"" "plus first scene of "Wayside Flowers"." "I'd like to have Ruan Ling-yu play the female lead and play her own mother in a double role." "In this scene she plays a woman fleeing the famine." "In the snow, her little one has nothing to eat she cuts her finger and feeds him with her own blood." "Can Ruan Ling-yu make the grade?" "It's a good show." "I'll play it if she can't." "You'd better move around outside, it's good for you." "Director Sun." "Director, I'll go and take it out with them." "Chu-chu, does childbirth really hurt?" "Yes." "I remember I kept screaming when giving my first birth." "I want no child, I want no child!" "What?" "You want to have childbirth?" "No, I just want to know how it feels." "Did you buy this baby piano for Hsiao-yu?" "Yes." "How's your relationship with Ta-min?" "Nothing special." "I wrote him yesterday asking him to stop dating taxi dancers." "I may be jealous." "I've been trying to prove something whispered to me." "Go on." "Did you get intimate with him when your mammy was their amah?" "I met him then." "It happened later." "I was only 16." "Four years!" "Ever thought of getting married?" "His family objected to our marriage." "After the death of his parents, we didn't raise the subject again." "What on earth does he want?" "He kept many horses when we first met." "He took me for horse-riding every morning." "On one occasion I stared at him riding away." "I realized he wants a free and easy life." "He won't get married and have children." "So I adopted her for protection." "It's only a matter of fate." "Chu-chu, just because childbirth is painful a mother loves her children more." "You adore Hsiao-yu too." "I wonder if I'd love her even more if she were my own daughter." "I believe you would." "How was really between Ruan and Chang Ta-min?" "Somehow I feel Chang was immature in life and feelings." "He needed her care in this respect." "Especially after Ruan became a movie star," "Chang's gambling and his family's losing fortune." "I mean notjust financially." "Spiritually, she looked after him like a child." "Thank you Don't mention it." "Hsiao-yu, don't get dirty, you've just taken a bath." "Mammy's peeping at us." "Hsiao-yu, are you a good girl?" "Yes." "Are you thinking of mammy?" "Mammy, come in." "It's cold outside, come in." "Chicken stewed with swallow's nest." "Take it hot." "Thank you, mammy." "I stewed something for Ta-min a few days ago." "I threw it away after waiting for him for 2 days." "You could've taken it yourself." "I wouldn't have wasted it if it suited me." "Power failure." "Impossible, there's light in the kitchen." "The bulb must've been out of order." "They insisted on Chinese goods." "Japanese goods are better." "Mammy, let me." "Mammy, let me hold you You hold me?" "Been back long?" "I knew you'd be back today." "I was thinking of buying something to cheer you up." "You didn't buy any?" "I bought it." "Chu-chu and I talked about you." "Then I thought of buying something for you." "So I bought a ring through Mr. Lo." "It cost $80 only and they said I was lucky." "Let me put it on for you." "It's too tight." "It doesn't look well." "Why is your right finger thinner?" "You like it?" "It cost too much." "Who said you're lucky?" "I tried a change of role." "I played the good person part." "I will do better than Hu Ti." "I must give you something now for the gifts you sent me." "Give me a few horses then." "It's still beyond my means to do that." "Give me money then, but in several installments." "Otherwise, I may spend it all at once." "Liu Chiung, shoot!" "Miss Ruan, you don't know me," "I'm Chen Yen-yen." "I played a minor role when you filmed "Reminiscences Of Peking"." "I remember, you've recently signed a contract with the company." "Yes, but I've had no important role." "Miss Ruan, they say it takes you one hour to paint your brow" "Where did you hear it?" "In Peking." "I took two hours to paint a brow in Harbin." "Yung-kang, Liu Chiung, come here and be introduced." "They represent Fu Tang University's student union." "How do you do?" "Japan took Manchuria in the Sept. 18 Incident." "Students in Shanghai are parading today to call for a city-wide strike to boycott Japanese goods." "Hope you people at Lienhua can join us." "Yung-kang, Liu Chiung, let's follow Nieh Erh." "What?" "Mr. Li, you're a revolutionary, you'll lead" "When I followed Dr. Sun in the North Expedition." "I carried a camera, instead of a gun." "But I knew when the moment comes, I must carry a gun." "But the time is not yet now." "Wake up." "They absolutely dare not fight the Japanese." "We can't wait anymore Parade must be held today." "You join us?" "We go on filming?" "Filming for that kind of audience?" "Nieh Erh, we must go on with filming today, right?" "But we must show our concern." "Min-wei, send some men to help Nieh Erh and the students." "Okay." "Go..." "Good, ready." "Back to work." "Let's have a discussion That's it." "Are you tired?" "Kwan, how old is Lily Li this year?" "76." "She's 5 years younger than Ruan." "What will I look like at 76?" "I was going to ask you." "Yesterday I asked Maggie Cheung." "Do you hope to be remembered, decades later?" "I absolutely do." "I hope people would talk about movie stars in the 90's with me included, whatever the number is." "You hope to be remembered Yes." "I kept that memory in mind when Ruan died and was lying in the coffin." "I kept staring and staring at her till her hair fluttered up." "Then I gripped it with my hair grip." "Then Hsiao-yu tugged at me saying:" "Auntie, why don't you cry?" "She wanted me to cry." "I couldn't then." "The first production between Lily Li and Ruan was "Gimmicks"." "In our casual chat with her, she emphasized how Ruan taught her to act in that movie." "And they became good friends as a result." "Ruan didn't speak Mandarin well and Lily taught her." "Ruan said to me:" "Sun, you'd better tell Li Min-wei the former Production Manager who was in Peking too." "You'd better tell him, not to take this child to Shanghai." "Sun answered:" ""What difference does it make?" "The Company needs hands anyway"." "She said "The child would take away half of my territory some day"." "Try to get Chu-chu to play a Ruan Ling-yu's role." "Don't turn round." "Your loved one is here too." "Who have you brought along?" "A taxi dancer." "Never mind her." "Don't forget we're going to H.K. Tomorrow." "I must return to pack up in a minute." "Chu-chu, thank you for taking me to Hong Kong." "Chang Chih-yun is here." "Miss Ruan, I admire you." "I've seen all your pictures." "I don't like Hu Ti." "You're more sophisticated." "I like Chang Chih-yun." "She's decadent." "Who's Chang Chih-yun?" "She's a veteran." "She was a big movie star 10 years ago." "I know." "She's Tea King Tang's mistress." "They say he kept her home smoking opium while he went around womanizing." "I really can't stand that." "Is that true?" "Lmpossible." "It's true he likes womanizing He's on good terms with us." "He has a wife in Kwangtung but they don't get along." "He wooed Li Cho-cho too." "Take it easy, it was only power failure." "Keep cool!" "Power failure, not air raid." "Don't panic." "Power failure." "I want to take ice-cream Alaska Good, good." "Queen's Road is no match to 4th Street in Shanghai." "You compare the Queen with whores in a Shanghai street?" "I've been in Hong Kong for nearly 10 days." "Now Shanghai's fallen and Hong Kong's thriving." "It's the cycle." "I really can't live in such backward places." "I'm so bored in a hotel." "Ruan, are you okay?" "Chu-chu, so Sir Robert Hotung knows my dad." "He promised to give me management of the SS Shui An." "I must really thank you and Min-wei." "The Shui An only ferries between Macao and Hong Kong." "I like Macao, I won't care for Africa." "If the Japs keep bombing, Lienhua has to move to H. K..." "We should be safe in the French Concession." "Bombs have no eyes." "Don't be afraid." "Ruan, Mr. Tang's here." "Miss Ruan." "Ruan, are you all right?" "Yes." "Want to go up for a rest?" "No, I was thinking of Shanghai." "Shanghai's going to be OK." "Your mom and daughter are there." "The Government dare not wage a full war against the Japs." "If the 19th Army loses, talks are the only way out." "This may go down as interludes in history." "You must embark at 6 a.m. Tomorrow." "Go to bed early." "Keep accounts." "Nothing to keep?" "Enter $80 for Ta-min, his roulette winnings in Macao." "Pay me the sum and I'll do it." "You're greedy." "What have you done today?" "Tang Chi-shan took us for yachting around H.K. Island." "Min-wei finally talked him into joining Lienhua as a partner." "When Shanghai calms down, he'll return to sign the contract." "To revive the Chinese movie industry again?" "Did Chang Chih-yun go with you?" "He confined her home to smoke opium That's a rumor only." "Did the rumor say that I control you?" "I don't control you either." "Don't!" "Control me?" "What are you doing?" "In fact, I'm not interested." "Haven't got a way to end it." "Nieh Erh insisted on completing it." "A good start, I must film this song." "Good." "Ruan, you're back?" "When did you get back?" "You're back." "Director Sun." "Ruan, you're a deserter." "Mind your words." "Director Pu." "Ruan, are you leaving him behind in H.K.?" "He's found work over there." "This means he made some contribution to the Movement." "Sorry, I didn't take part in your Movement." "Never mind, there are lots of chances in future." "These Japs won't leave." "Then it's no longer a matter of singing for the Army or nursing the wounded soldiers in hospital." "Right." "This time we've decided to fight them." "Right, we must fight." "Let's sing together." "Now cheer up." "Tien Han is Tien Han." "It's the 1st progressive movie of Lienhua." "You mustn't use the name Tien Han." "Why?" "He's an underground worker." "The modern girl in this film isn't the type who is for cosmetics and cars." "She must live on her own, rational and brave." "A girl of the times should be concerned with people's welfare." "Li Cho-cho, you represent romance." "Yen-yen, your role signals purity." "But you flee when hit by the revolutionary waves." "Yen-yen, you kill yourself because your boyfriend jilts you." "Director Pu." "Ruan, how are you?" "Director Pu, how do I die?" "I'll tell you in a minute." "What if she comes?" "Shall I go and find Tien Han?" "He's only a script-writer." "Director Pu, may I bother you a minute?" "Sure, let's go out for a chat." "Ruan, what's the matter?" "They say you haven't found the girl for the Chou role." "How about having me play the role?" "Ruan, it's unsuitable for you." "You've been playing a tragic figure or a romantic girl." "You have a noble personality." "That role is neither noble nor romantic." "She's a laborer and not suitable for you." "I can play it well." "If I fail, I'll make good your loss." "Ruan, she's a stubborn girl daring to resist." "She's the revolutionary type." "Let's dance." "I can't stand people being so nice to me" "Whoever does, I'll madly reciprocate." "Thank you." "What are you doing?" "You've shown me your weak point." "I still have a Chang Ta-min." "Do I have to be nice to Chang Ta-min too?" "You still have a Chang Chih-yun, and a wife." "What about Li Cho-cho?" "I broke with Chang Chih-yun in H. K..." "It's not so easy to break with my wife." "If I jilt her, you may be scared of me." "Give me time." "Stop!" "Does the camera cart move at the right speed?" "Seem it has to be a bit slower." "It'll make the film much longer then." "Thanks for the hard work." "Rush for another take." "Fine..." "Thank you." "Chin Yen, you play a playboy in this movie." "But not a so called new youth." "Look scared when Chou takes you to see the poor." "I was scared when she took me to the slum." "This time I want to show I'm moved." "Right, you're right." "You'll make it then." "Ruan, well done, go on like it." "Director, Boss Tang is here." "Mr. Tang, how are you?" "Let's take one more time." "Mr. Tang's here." "Fight for success once and for all." "Good, ready." "Lights, props." "Ready." "Camera!" "Ready." "Many analysts found out that her later progressive roles contrasted sharply with her real life." "Mr. Shen, what do you think?" "Her union with Tang Chi-shan had everything to do with how she fared then." "The circumstances were beyond her control when she saw through him." "It was a matter of one year from cohabitation to suicide." "There was nothing she could do when she found out he had a previous marriage." "It was never in her to fight or resist." "She considered the relationship tolerable." "Ladies  gentlemen, movie critics describe "Three Modern Girls"" "as a great film heralding a bright future." "Let's take photos together for a souvenir." "Pink Director, come over quick!" "Shall I leave you behind?" "Sorry, sorry." "Who's he?" "He's Tsai Chu-sheng." "He's just directed a movie titled "A Rosy Dream"." "Then Nieh Erh called him Pink Director." "Now they're good friends." "Sorry." "From now on, all our productions will be blockbusters." "It features Fei Mu, Sun Yu, Wu Yung-kang, Tsai Chu-sheng." "Fei Mu's films are more profound, like depth charges." "Miss Ruan, a photo for you two stars." "Thank you." "What do you mean?" "Ta-min has agreed to separate from me on an alimony of $300 each month." "That's not too much It represents one-third of my salary." "I'll pay him." "That's good news for me." "It means he has no more feelings for you." "It makes things easier when he only cares for mo" "What a shame on a man asking for separation money." "That makes talks easier." "I'm sure if I gave him $100, he'd take it." "I'll sign a contract with him through my lawyer." "Director Fei, I'll translate all the acting theory of Stanislavski." "The Japs are the enemy and the enemy is the Japs." "Who's the Nationalist Government trying to fool?" "Ruan, the reporters outside told me that, the Government won't allow any more shooting of anti-Japanese movies." "In our "Gimmicks" the Japs are invariably called the enemy." "Is that so?" "The enemy's coming, wake up!" "The enemy's coming, wake up!" "Well, Lily, go on Go now." "Miss Ruan, I'm Tsai Chu-sheng." "I'll make a new movie after finishing "The Fisherman's Song"." "In any case, I'll put you in the female lead." "Tsai Chu-sheng, aren't you ashamed?" "No one will hire you if your present movie doesn't sell." "Don't dream of getting Ruan Ling-yu as your leading lady." "Ruan, don't commit yourself." "So you can speak Cantonese." "I'm a Cantonese too." "Cut." "Prepare smoke." "OK, take a breather." "Lily, again." "Director, what's wrong with me?" "Try one more time." "More smoke." "Ready." "Camera." "Action!" "Cut!" "How's it, Director?" "Something seems wrong but there's no way to put it." "Lily, this show is coming to the end." "Chu wipes off her mammy's tears with her hand." "Then flicks the teardrops away with her little finger." "You can't act well with your pains." "I'm supposed to be dying after being bombed by the Japs." "I should've felt great pains." "Right, but not completely." "Let me think." "Make up these two wounded women." "Get the costumes changed." "Theirs is next on the program." "Get ready." "I can't get his idea." "Imagine, Chu plays a nice, clever girl, considerate to her mammy." "So it's best for her to endure her pain now." "You may try smiling at mammy to comfort her and lighten her sorrow." "Lily, now I know how you should act." "Me too." "You shouldn't just show your own anguish." "Now I know how to act, and what you want." "Miss Ruan, I feel you're the best actress in China." "Miss Ruan, you're Party A, Mr. Chang is Party B." "In clause 3, if Party A can't maintain her livelihood." "Party B shouldn't..." "Don't worry, Ruan will get on better and better." "There won't be one cent less for the $100 monthl" "Mr. Wu, the Ceylon Studio has asked if you want to change your seal ink." "Stop making troubles with us!" "If you've no more questions, please affix your chop." "You really have a way to extort money from Ruan." "Mammy." "When we're really married." "Don't dance, your clothes are creased and you're sweaty." "Hsiao-yu, let me take you to see your room." "Let's have a family session to see how to put the furniture." "Mammy, come on, go upstairs for a look." "There are many rumors about Ai Hsia's suicide, right?" "It was not suicide." "She was killed." "She was killed by the whole society, not 1 or 2 persons." "The obscene tabloid reporters." "I feel Wei Ming's role is her replica." "I have seen her several times in Ming Hsing Studio." "I have seen her "Spring Silkworm" and "Bumper Crop"." "And her "A Modern Woman"." "She wrote the script herself." "Tsai calls his film "New Woman" because of her death." "Were you on good terms with her?" "Were you on good terms with her?" "Yes." "She was independent, a good actress and script-writer." "She was a modern female." "People considered her a bad woman and criticized her over a minor affair." "They wouldn't let her go even at death." "This show is designed to expose the true colours of these people." "Wei Ming in the script ended up being a whore." "Was Ai Hsia such a woman?" "People sometimes could be very weak." "But we hope to see strong persons." "Did I bother you?" "Did I?" "Do you enjoy crouching?" "Two-thirds of people in China are used to that." "They can't help doing it." "They crouch down to wait for the mandarins, and landlords to slap them from behind." "They crouch down to get insulted or help." "They crouch for a rest too." "I remember when mammy was tired of work she crouched too;" "and I crouched beside her." "How long have you not been crouching?" "After becoming a movie star." "I used to crouch whole day waiting for roles." "Don't sit on high." "Crouch down and show me." "May I use your toilet?" "It's behind the sitting room." "I stood long outside." "I saw Hsiao-yu going to school, mammy going to the market and he going to work." "That's meaningful." "Anything else?" "Your house is beautifully decorated." "Show me around." "The kitchen's there." "You've already seen the toilet." "Mammy and Hsiao-yu in one room." "This room is for me and Chi-shan." "All your furniture is newly bought, right?" "Yes." "What about those at the old house?" "All sold for a total of $93 and donated to the Bubbling Well Buddhist Society." "None left that belonged to us?" "No." "These were gifts from you but there's no more." "No longer having me in your heart?" "Sometimes." "But it's no longer vital." "Ruan, I'm thinking of doing some business." "Could you advance the remaining few months' allowance to me?" "You were a village woman." "You made wishes to Buddha that you'd become a nun for the safety of your sick son and husband at war." "Now your son's recovered and your husband's safely back and they're begging you to return." "Are you going back or not?" "You worried only about your family, husband and son." "But now in this ethereal world, you experience peace and quiet you never had before." "Are you going back or not?" "All that I need is your peaceful expression." "Cut." "OK." "I'm crying!" "OK.?" "You weep peacefully without emotion." "Splendid." "Hurry up!" "I win!" "Now don't keep me company." "Go up to accompany my daughter." "Mammy, I promised to take your loss." "And the losses of Sai-chen, Sai-san and Mrs. Chou too." "I've one principle." "I won't let girls suffer." "You're a good fellow." "What are you doing?" "That's your true face, isn't it?" "If both Sai-chen and I were courtesans, which one would you take?" "Say it." "What did you say?" "You saved this prostitute from the police and are threatening her now." "Smiling obscenely you say," ""How are you going to repay me?" "Don't go away."" "How are you going to repay me?" "Don't go way." "Ruan, you know you can't get out of this rascal's clutches." "Sad in heart, you put on an icy face." "You walk from here to the table and sit on it." "You tell Chang Chih-chih to pass you a cigarette." "You flick it once with a finger and Chang lights it for you." "Chang, you light it for her ingratiatingly." "A minor favor." "It is a man's common trick to seduce a girl." "Director, one more time I can't do it." "Ruan, sitting on the table means resistance, and so does smoking." "The whole posture is resistance." "But you're too weak-willed and you know it." "This should be visible from your eyes." "How's it?" "Got any cigarettes?" "Cut!" "Ruan, it's not good enough." "Listen to me once more." "You were forced into prostitution to save your own daughter but those tabloid reporters didn't pity you." "They even scandalized you." "You thought of killing yourself, but you want to live now." "You want to accuse, to hit back." "Show all this on your face, understand?" "Just do as you've just done." "Again." "Ready." "Camera." "Action!" "I want to live, I want to retaliate." "Cut!" "Not enough, not enough." "I want you to get stronger." "Remember what you said to me." "You have much in common with this role of Wei Ming." "Imagine the unfairness surrounding your livelihood." "Vent all your sad feelings like volcanic eruptions." "I'll run the subtitles in your face:" ""I want to live..." One word bigger than another." "I want to see your expressions one stronger than another." "Make no reservations." "Can you do it?" "Just do as you've just done." "One more time." "Back to position." "Ready." "Ready, shoot." "Ready." "Ready, shoot." "Camera." "Action!" "I want to retaliate." "Help me!" "I want to live!" "I want to live!" "Sister." "Cut!" "OK, pack up." "Pack up." "Ruan." "Cut." "Keep this." "Chia-hui, you forgot to lift up the bedspread to see Maggie." "What's this?" "Is it our press who made her died?" "What's the matter?" "That's too much." "That's an insult to us." "Let's go." "It's outrageous." "What is it?" "The film's still running." "Ridiculous!" "The Shanghai Press Union, are making a final plea or the ultimatum, to your studio." "Your studio's "New Woman" is libeling reporters." "You must issue a notice in newspapers to apologize to all the press and ensure there will be no recurrence." "Part of the shots insulting reporters should be deleted." "Cut, cut, cut the whole part of it!" "After the cut, no one will see them sponging in ballrooms." "History will give an account of it." "Miss Ruan." "Do you really want to cut it?" "The show will be banned if we don't." "Don't cut it!" "About that segment." "Miss Ruan, we must lobby through various channels." "The picture can't go on show without cuts." "But the cuts may arouse public opinion which would surely be on our side." "The final victory belongs to us." "The movie "New Woman" was not complimentary to the press." "The press wanted to attack the movie." "But they could not find a good excuse." "So they turned to Ruan Ling-yu who was notorious for her private life." "They said Ruan was unsuitable to play the role of a new woman." "Did the Association urge" "Chang to sue Ruan?" "The two events proceeded at the same time." "Eat the bread, be a good girl." "What's up?" "See for yourself." "You're late." "Speak now." "This is a matter of life and death." "You won't die betting on one race less." "Why do I mean so much to you now?" "Ta-min, why are you doing that?" "I'll sleep over here." "Sometimes sleep alone, sometimes bring a taxi dancer back." "They bothered me with questions about you and about things between you and me." "Aren't things good for us now?" "When everything is known, I can save my breath." "I never do anything bad behind you." "When you were in Foochow," "I only danced and ate with Tang Chi-shan." "Enough." "Ta-min, have I done anything unfair to you?" "We made everything clear in the solicitor's office." "I even advanced all the money you asked." "Did someone instigate you to hurt me?" "Who could've done that?" "Money could!" "Look, I'm still in love with you." "I don't love you." "Who knows I'd have come here?" "Who did you tell this to?" "Who did you conspire with to hurt me?" "I'll take you out through the back door." "Coming." "What do you think of this court case?" "They say her mammy was a maid at the Changs." "Before she was a maid?" ""The Prostitute" is all about her mother." "I see." "Miss Ruan." "Hello, Miss Ruan, what would you have?" "Wait." "Okay." "You made it too loose." "I only want to ask you one thing." "Would you take me away?" "Let's go together to Hong Kong." "Later on we'll have to come back" "Yes." "We'll return only after getting married." "If only you don't mind leaving your wife and mistress." "You said you'd ask me one thing only." "I've got something to do here." "What would you wear day after tomorrow?" "Day after tomorrow?" "It's the hearing." "I won't attend it." "I'll wear a black coat and a dark green necktie to match your new gown." "Damn, I mean to show to the Shanghai people that we're a pair of noble adulterers." "We're adulterers." "You have a wife." "And you have Chang Chih-yun and me." "You're an adulterer." "I'm an adulteress, because I followed you knowin you're married." "To get dressed beautifully makes no difference." "We must part if we don't get married." "If we don't part, you're still an adulterer even though we win over Ta-min." "Shut up!" "Mammy, what's the matter?" "A young lady claiming to be your ex-classmate wants to see you." "Did he hit you?" "No." "Did he hit you?" "No." "Rui-chen, why stand outside?" "Come in quick!" "Sorry, I'm already late for an appointment." "Tomorrow is Women's Day, you promised to lecture in my school." "Don't back out anymore." "I know you must be in court day after tomorrow." "You can stand out and pour out all your grievances as a warning to young female students." "I'm also to blame." "Pour it all out, our weak points and pride and desire to eke out an existence." "I'll pick you up at 10 a.m. Tomorrow." "That won't be necessary." "I'll go by myself." "Good, be sure to attend, don't let the youth down." "I'm also a youth But you're Ruan Ling-yu." "See you tomorrow." "Good-bye." "Auntie, good-bye." "Just as the microphone is adjusted perfectly." "Her boss walks in, he sees the cord pulls it and she falls off her chair." "Just as the microphone is adjusted perfectly." "Her boss walks in, he sees the cord pulls it and she falls off her chair." "I'm going to the USA to see them shoot talkies." "They started with that not long ago." "So they often make slips." "Thank you, Mr. Skiner." "Let's all thank Mr. Skiner for installing this microphone for us." "Next time I can talk on the screen." "I can speak Mandarin." "Mr. Skiner, Miss Ruan is representing us to thank you for establishing the sound synchronizing department." "She should be the first star to speak on screen in Mandarin in next movie." "She has studied Mandarin for more than 8 months." "But please don't spread it out." "This is a secret." "Tomorrow is Women's Day." "My ex-classmate is now the headmistress of a girl's school." "She's invited me to lecture." "I have the lecture ready." "I'll speak in Mandarin." "Lily, listen." "Okay." "Classmates, let's celebrate Women's Day today." "What's the idea of this Festival?" "To celebrate us girls for standing up from a centuries-old men-dominated history" "No... we'd better speak Shanghaiese." "You women are standing up and we men are falling down." "When women stand up, it doesn't necessarily mean men are falling down." "We can stand up together in this large world." "You're right, Director Fei." "Fei Mu, you really are a nice guy." "What about me?" "Can I be called good?" "She asked me if she's good." "I told her, "all your friends believe you're good regardless of what others say"." "I'm mainly of the opinion you're too nice." "He's the director who taught me how to resist." "Drinking means resistance." "Resist!" "Come up to smoke and drink is only a poise." "I excuse you for not letting me play in "The Road"." "Over a week ago." "I wanted her to inscribe something on a friend's souvenir album and she promised to come up with something good." "It's now too late." "She only embroidered "Sun"" "on my hat when she was filming "Gimmicks"." "Ruan, you've kissed everyone of them?" "Not with the girls though." "Director Pu." "You changed me twice making me a movie star and making me a female revolutionary." "If I could change you once more..." "I kissed him the longest because he's the most shy director." "I was too excited when filming the last scene in "New Woman"." "I broke up sobbing." "He was so shy that he dared not take off my blanket to see me." "They're all looking at us." "I've learnt one thing since coming to society." "If you're rich and powerful, none dare say anything bad about you in your presence." "When not in your presence?" "You can't hear it." "People will say, I commit suicide out of guilt." "I committed no act of guilt." "She is me Tang Chi-shan's mistress." "Death means nothing to me." "Still I'm afraid of malicious gossip." "Chi-shan, without me, you can do anything you like." "I'm very happy." "Chi-shan, I'm sorry to have made you suffer." "May my spirit, if any, bless you forever." "Chi-shan, after my death, people may say, you were a devil toying with females and I was a girl without a soul." "But I wouldn't be around then." "You bear with it yourself." "It's nice." "Mammy." "After taking the congee, go to bed." "It's late." "Please take care of mammy and darling." "Please use the $2,050 Lienhua owed me as living expenses for them." "Please take good care of them." "Go to bed early." "I love you more than my own child." "It's all right." "Mammy, sleep." "People will say I commit suicide out of guilt." "But I was guilty of nothing." "I didn't do anything wrong to Chang Ta-min" "but he returned evil for good." "People might even think I did him a wrong turn." "What else can I do except killing myself" "I'm not afraid of death." "My only fear is the malicious gossip." "Ruan Ling-yu, March 7, 1935, midnight." "Chi-shan, I never thought we'd part so soon but please don't be sad." "I am sorry to make you suffer." "May my spirit, if any, bless you forever." "Chang Ta-min, you've forced me to death." "Don't try to cry or repent now that things have reached such a stage." "Yet I do regret having become the prize sought by both of you." "But it's too late now." "Chi-shan, I'm your second Chang Chih-yun." "Only you can tell who'll be me tomorrow." "Without me, you can do anything you like." "I'm relieved." "Ling-yu." "Chi-shan..." "Do you love me or not?" "What's the time?" "Sleeping like a dog." "What did you ask me?" "Auntie Li, why don't you cry?" "Gone with the butterfly is my heart." "Lonely night, lonely me, lonely tears." "I have a craze for tenderness, and love." "Yes, love must go;" "it goes tardily, sadly."