Today I would like to introduce to you the earliest image of a female spy on the screen of New China, played by Ms. He Gaoying in the 1950 movie "Iron Warrior".
Although Ms. He Gaoying's performance does not have much connotation in the movie, it has created the image of the first female spy on the screen of New China. This image symbolizes the brutality and insidiousness of the Kuomintang spies, and can be said to be symbolic.
In the original version of the opera, Platoon Commander Zhang of the People's Liberation Army also fantasized about being able to persuade and rebel against this female spy, hoping that she could find out with her conscience and assist Platoon Commander Zhang to escape from the devil's cave. However, in the movie, this paragraph is completely removed, making the image of the female spy even more negative.
Although Ms. He Gaoying was only 23 years old (born in 1927), her performance had an impact on her acting career. The symbolization and negativity of this image made her suffer certain restrictions in her later acting career.
In general, Ms. He Gaoying's performance in "Iron Warrior" not only created the image of the first female spy on the screen of New China, but also affected her acting career.
He Gaoying, an actress who was briefly active in the film industry, only played roles in the two films "Iron Warrior" and "The Vast Village", then turned behind the scenes, and left the film industry in 1962 and transferred to the Chengdu Military Region Zhanqi Repertory Troupe as an actor until his retirement.
This change in her may have something to do with her family background. He Gaoying's mother is none other than He Zhihua, one of the most famous traitors in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. She was the ex-wife of the marshal, the biological mother of the eldest daughter Zhu Min, and a traitor who tried to sell a list of hundreds of underground parties for $50,000.
Fortunately, this plan was successfully stopped by Tekko led by Chen Geng. In the process, He Gaoying's father, He Jiaxing, was shot dead by Tek, and He Zhihua was also hit in the face by Tek.
Although there are rumors that He Zhihua was blinded in one eye by Chen Geng, this is actually not true. Under the medical conditions at the time, it would have been impossible for He Zhihua to survive if he had been blinded in one eye.
Next, Lantai will introduce the story of He Gaoying's mother, He Zhihua.
He Zhihua was born in Hejiazhuang, Luojiayan, Pu'an Town, Kaijiang County, Sichuan. His father, He Dequan, was a scholar, a talent at the age of 13, and was admitted to Bagong at the age of 17, and later became the director of the county education bureau.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, He Dequan also served as the commander of Kaijiang County County Defense for 2 years. He Zhihua has been smart since she was a child, and her father spared no effort to cultivate her. When he was in school, He Dequan asked He Zhihua to follow his brother He Houzhong to the new-style school.
After graduating, He Zhihua became a teacher at Kaijiang County Girls' Middle School, and was respected as "the best of Kaijiang" because of his handsome appearance, generous personality and profound knowledge. In 1919, when He Zhihua was teaching at Meishan Middle School, in order to support the May Fourth Movement, she gave a speech as a representative of Meishan women.
He Zhihua has thus won the reputation of "the first talented woman in Meizhou". At that time, as He Zhihua's second brother He Houzhong's classmate and friend, ** was also at the speech site, and he was deeply attracted by He Zhihua, so he asked his classmates to be matchmakers.
* At the age of 33, he successively served as the commander of the military police of the Yunnan Army, the chief of the Yunnan Provincial Police and the chief of the provincial capital's police, which fully matched the image of a hero in He Zhihua's mind.
In 1920, 19-year-old He Zhihua tied the knot with ** in Yanjin County, Yunnan Province.
In 1922, ** and his wife went to Germany to study, and two years later, according to the arrangement of the party organization, they transferred from Germany to the Department of Political Science of the Eastern University in Moscow, Soviet Union to continue their studies.
On April 18, 1926, He Zhihua gave birth to a girl on a farm on the outskirts of Moscow, named Zhu Min, and later renamed Lent, which was the first and only daughter of **.
In 1926, ** was ordered to return to China on business, leaving his wife He Zhihua and daughter in Moscow. At that time, there were many revolutionary young people from China in Dongfang University, and slowly, He Zhihua and He Jiaxin from Chengdu, Sichuan came together, and finally decided to divorce ** and marry He Jiaxin.
In 1928, He Zhihua and He Jiaxin completed their studies in the Soviet Union and returned to China to participate in revolutionary work. Because the two were high-achieving students in the Soviet Union and were very valued by the organization, He Jiaxin was arranged to serve as the secretary of Luo Yinong, one of the leaders at that time, and He Zhihua was a member of the ** Women's Committee.
It is a pity that He Zhihua and He Jiaxin gradually got lost in the glittering lights of Shanghai, and the two frequently went to bars, dance halls, and song halls to have fun, forgetting their original intention and mission.
In the end, the two decided to sell the organization's secrets to the patrol house in the Shanghai Concession in exchange for $50,000; The two are ready to take the $50,000 to "enjoy life" abroad.
Although in the end, because of the timely action of the special branch led by Chen Geng, the conspiracy between He Zhihua and He Jiaxin failed to succeed, but Luo Yinong was unfortunately killed 6 days later because of the betrayal of He Zhihua and He Jiaxin.
He Jiaxin was killed on the spot by Tekko led by Chen Geng, while He Zhihua escaped by luck because he was only hit in the face by hiding under the bed. Because the list has been recaptured, Tekko is not a Kuomintang spy after all, so he will let He Zhihua go.
And He Zhihua was also frightened after this incident, and hurriedly returned to her hometown in Kaijiang with the two daughters born to her and He Jiaxin.
He Zhihua's sister He Jinghui recalled that He Zhihua and He Jiaxing entrusted their daughter Zhu Min to themselves when they returned to China. He Jinghui traveled from Chengdu to Wuhan to bring 10-month-old Zhu Min to Chengdu, when He Jinghui had already moved to Chengdu from Kaijiang with his mother.
After He Zhihua returned to Sichuan, he did not dare to go to Chengdu to reunite with his sister and mother, and he did not even dare to live in Kaijiang County. She chose to live in the He family's ancestral home.
However, in 1939, in order to open a casino, the local bandits in Kaijiang took a fancy to the ancestral home of He Zhihua's family, rushed into He Zhihua's house and killed He Zhihua, and also occupied He Zhihua's ancestral home.
He Zhihua's nanny took He Zhihua's children and was kicked out of the ancestral house to live in Kaijiang County. He Jinghua, who got the news, hurriedly went to Kaijiang and took the three children left by his sister to Chengdu to raise.
In other words, He Gaoying and Zhu Min are half-sisters. The reason why He Gaoying chose to be admitted to the drama department of Jiang'an National Drama College to study acting was because He Jinghui had too many children to raise at that time, and the burden was too heavy.
At that time, art schools not only did not require tuition, but also included food and accommodation. Therefore, He Jinghui asked the two sisters to learn art. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, He Gaoying moved back to Nanjing with the school, and after graduation, he joined Shanghai Tsinghua Film Company as an actor.
After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, she joined the Shanghai Youth Art Troupe as an actor, and in July of the same year, she was transferred to the Northeast Film Studio as an actor.
He Gaoying, an artist who focused on poetry after retirement. Her works have been published in many newspapers and magazines such as "Modern Writers", "Southwest Military Literature", "Yulei" Poetry Magazine, "Battle Banner Daily", "Sunset Daily" and so on.
Some people think that her acting career is not smooth, which may be related to her biological parents.