:00:09
These are the stills
when she began filming at 16.
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Some of the prints
are no longer available.
:00:19
Most of the pictures were folklore,
romances
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even spooky and militant.
:00:27
They say she was mostly
given casual roles
:00:32
or wallflowers as we call them now.
:00:35
Only afterjoining Lienhua in 1929
:00:38
did she have a chance
to be in serious films.
:00:43
Isn't she a replica of myself?
:00:49
Ruan killed herself
over half a century ago
:00:53
but people still remember her
as a movie star.
:00:57
Maggie, may I ask
:01:00
if you wish to be
remembered half a century later?
:01:04
That's not so important to me.
:01:10
If future people do remember me
:01:12
it won't be the same
as Ruan Ling-yu.
:01:14
As she halted her career
at the age of 25
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when she was at her most glorious.
:01:20
Now she is a legend.