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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Truth Seeker" data-source="post: 2478021" data-attributes="member: 11804">Classic Actress Li Li-li Died at 90 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)[hq]Li-li[/hq], one of the most famous Chinese actresses in the 1930s died yesterday in Beijing. Originally named [hq]Qian Zhenzhen[/hq], she was born in Beiping (now Beijing) in 1915.  When she was only 11, Li had her screen début by playing a supporting role in Yan Shan Yin Xia (The Hidden Hero of Yan Mountains), with her parents. She became a dancer after moved to Shanghai with her family in 1927.  Five years later, Li took the leading role in Huo Shan Qing Xue (literal: Loving Blood of the Volcano) and began her life as a movie star. In the following five years, Li was involved in over a dozen films, including Ti Yu Huang Hou (The Queen of Sports), Da Lu (The Big Road) and Lang Shan Die Xue Ji (The Wolf Hill).  After Japan launched the full-scale invasion of China in 1937, Li starred in three films about the war against the Japanese, Re Xue Zhong Hun (Fight to the Last), Gu Dao Tian Tang (Paradise in the Besieged City) and Sai Shang Feng Yun (Unrest in Saishang). After her career as a movie star ended in the early 1950's for political reasons, she became a professor at Beijing Film Academy.  In 1992, Li played herself in a biopic of Ruan Ling-Yu, another movie star in the 1930s, who took her own life at the age of 25. In Remembrance.</blockquote>