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Statistics : 11630 Movies 19215 People 1448 Studios 29 Articles 73 Interviews 12 DVD Reviews 32452 Screenshots 3722 Videos
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Lam Chui Jeanette Lam Chui Jeanette Lin Lin Tsui
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Birthdate : |
1/1/1936 |
Date of death : |
22/2/1995 |
Nationality : |
China |
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Hong Kong |
Activities : |
Director (1), Producer (4), Writer (1), Actress (48), Cameo (1) |
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Jeanette was born in Shanghai but came with her family to Hong Kong in 1949 where she studied at St. Stephen's College. At the age of 17 she joined Liberty Film.
Jeanette Lin was one of the most famous of the Mandarin actresses in Hong Kong during the 1950's and 1960's appearing in all sorts of different kinds of films - from tear jerkers to James Bond rip-offs. In 1957 her performance in Our Sister Hedy made her a star. Some of her other film titles are The Golden Buddha, Crimson Rose, Dark Daughter, Blundering Woman Detective and Sister Long Legs. Her nickname was "The Student's Sweetheart".
In 1959, he married director Qin Jan - but the marriage did not work out. She had a scandalous affair with Jimmy Wang Yu and her husband divorced her - and then later committed suicide.
In 1969 she married Wang Yu - and also pretty much retired from the film business at the same time. Her marriage to Wang Yu also fell apart under a cloud of charges of wife beating and lesbianism.
In 1976, shortly after her divorce with Wang Yu, she both wrote and directed a movie called Divorce Hong-Kong Style that seems to have an autobiographical aspect to it. Their daughter is the terrific singer and occasional actress Linda Wang.
In 1989 Jeanette made a brief return to film to appear in a remake of Our Sister Hedy - now playing the mother - that is called Four Loves. Then in 1990 she was in an American production called Iron and Silk that takes place in the Mainland.
By the way, actor Kenneth Tsang is her brother.
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Young Vagabond |
1958 |
Actress |
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Wife Of A Romantic Scholar |
1967 |
Actress |
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Wedding Bells For Hedy |
1959 |
Actress |
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Wandering Knight, The |
1967 |
Actress |
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Torrents of Spring |
1960 |
Actress |
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Too Young to Love |
1959 |
Actress |
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Till The End Of Time |
1961 |
Actress |
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Three Smart Girls |
1965 |
Actress |
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Third Bridge |
1988 |
Actress |
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Sweet Seventeen |
1954 |
Actress |
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Sup Sap Bup Dup |
1975 |
Producer, Cameo |
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Story Of Three Loves (Part 2), The |
1964 |
Actress |
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Story Of Three Loves (Part 1), The |
1964 |
Actress |
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Stolen Love |
1959 |
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Spring Song |
1959 |
Actress |
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Sister Long Legs |
1960 |
Actress |
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Sister Fulan |
1956 |
Actress |
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Season of Budding Roses |
1956 |
Actress |
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Romance at Sun Moon Lake |
1956 |
Actress |
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Queen of the Stage |
1955 |
Actress |
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Passion |
1967 |
Actress |
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Our Sister Hedy |
1957 |
Actress |
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No Time for Love |
1968 |
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Miss Evening Sweet |
1957 |
Actress |
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Marriage is a Life-Long Business |
1958 |
Actress |
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Magic Lamp, The |
1964 |
Actress |
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Lost Romance |
1986 |
Producer |
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Little Matchmaker |
1967 |
Actress |
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Little Angel Of The Streets |
1957 |
Actress |
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Life and Love of a Horse-Craft Driver |
1956 |
Actress |
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Last Romance |
1988 |
Producer |
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Lady Sings the Blues |
1957 |
Actress |
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Ladies First |
1962 |
Actress |
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He Has Taken Him For Another |
1957 |
Actress |
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Golden Buddha, The |
1966 |
Actress |
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Golden Arrow, The |
1963 |
Actress |
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Girl in Disguise |
1956 |
Actress |
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Fugitive, The |
1966 |
Actress |
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Freedom Run Q |
1992 |
Actress |
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Four Loves |
1989 |
Actress |
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Forget Me Not |
1966 |
Actress |
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Fleur-de-Lys |
1960 |
Actress |
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Education of Love |
1961 |
Actress |
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Dragon The Master 2 : Big Boss Untouchable |
2002 |
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Divorce Hong Kong Style |
1976 |
Director, Producer, Writer |
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Crusade Against Daddy |
1962 |
Actress |
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Blundering Woman Detective |
1965 |
Actress |
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Beware of Pickpockets |
1958 |
Actress |
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Beancurd Shih Sze, A |
1959 |
Actress |
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Autumn Phoenix, The |
1957 |
Actress |
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Affair To Remember, An |
1964 |
Actress |
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48 Hours in Escape |
1959 |
Actress |
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