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These are the stillswhen she began filming at 16.
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Some of the printsare no longer available.
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Most of the pictures were folklore,romances
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even spooky and militant.
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They say she was mostlygiven casual roles
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or wallflowers as we call them now.
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Only afterjoining Lienhua in 1929
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did she have a chanceto be in serious films.
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Isn't she a replica of myself?
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Ruan killed herselfover half a century ago
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but people still remember heras a movie star.
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Maggie, may I ask
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if you wish to beremembered half a century later?
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That's not so important to me.
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If future people do remember me
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it won't be the sameas Ruan Ling-yu.
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As she halted her careerat the age of 25
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when she was at her most glorious.
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Now she is a legend.
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