中英雙語話中國影視演藝圈 第13期:王漢倫

Wang Hanluri (1903 ?1978)

王漢倫（1903~1978)

Wang Hanlun, birth name Peng Qinshi, also called Jianqing, was bom in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1903 and she herself was a film audience. She was one of China's first generation actresses, one of Four Great Dan (actresses) of early Chinese films and the first “Chinese tragic acress,".

王漢倫，原名彭琴士，字劍青，1903年出生於江蘇蘇州，自己喜歡經常去看電影，中國第一代著名女影星之一，中國電影早期的“四大名旦”之一， 也是首位“悲劇女星”。

Wang Hanlun went to an excellent private institution, St. Mary's School for Women in Shanghai when she was a young girl. Her father died when she was 16, she had to make a living, successively as a primary school teacher, a clerk in British and American tobacco companies and Later as a full-time English language typist with rather high salary before becoming a actress.

少女時代曾就讀於優秀私立學校——上海教會女校聖瑪利亞書院。16歲她父親去世，爲了謀生 曾先後當過小學老師，在英美菸草公 司當過職員。從影前在一外企任專職 英文打字員，薪水頗豐。

Occasionally in 1923 she was introduced to act in Orphan Rescues Grandfather made by the Star Film Studio, starring Yu Weiru. Wang's thorough sensitive portrayal, sadness and anger and tenacity, of the besieged heroine moved audiences, made Orphan Rescues Grandfather China's first national hit and Wang Hanlun an overnight sensation. Orphan Rescues Grandfather became the first Chinese full-length feature film.

1923年，一個 偶然的機會經同事引薦參加明星影片 公司《孤兒救祖記》的拍攝，主演餘蔚如。她把該角色的悲憤與堅韌表現得淋漓盡致，深深打動了觀衆。該影片轟動一時，使彭劍青一炮走紅。《孤兒救祖記》成爲中國第一部完整故事片。

Nearly a decade had passed since Yan Shanshan had appear on screen as the first actress, but only a handful of women had yet dared to. In those days, women's appearance on screen was still regarded as socially unacceptable behavior, especially for a young lady from upper-class. So there were enormous pressures on Peng from both family and acting on screen angered her elder brother and sister-in law and she had no other way than changing her making her birth name never known to the public. The family accepted this, and she adopted Wang Hanlun as her screen name. The surname derived from her belief that tigers are fearless and tigers have the Chinese character for king on their foreheads，so she changed her surname to Wang. She liked the English name Helen, so she adopted the similar Chinese name Hanlun.

自從嚴姍姍第一次出現在銀幕上之後，近十年過去了，僅有個別女性敢於演電影。那時候，女性演電影仍然不被社會所接受，更不用說出身於上層社會家庭的小姐了。由於從影惹怒了兄嫂，彭劍青只好改名換姓,永遠不讓自己的原名出現在公衆的視野。她的“王”姓來自她想到老虎是無所畏懼的，它 的額頭上有個“王”字,於是就改姓王，她喜歡英文名字Helen,因此取了漢語諧音漢倫。

Starring in Divorcee (1924) and The Poor Children (1924) made Wang Hanlu the first Chinese outstanding tragic actress. Later in 1929, Wang founded her own independent film company, the Hanlun Film Studio, and produced An Actress's Revenge (Blind Love), in which she starred as the heroine. This film was a great success and had been shown abroad. But Wang then disbanded the company and with the profits from what turned out to be her last starring film, she opened the "Hanlun Beauty Parlo" in Shanghai, retired from films to become a businesswoman. She was very successful throughout the 1930s until the Japanese occupied Shanghai.

影片《棄婦》（1924)、《苦兒弱女》（1924)等的拍攝，使她成爲令人矚目的中國第一位悲劇明星王漢倫。後來，她於1929年曾開設過自己的電影公司“漢倫影片 公司”，拍攝了《盲目的愛情》（即《女伶復仇記》），由自己主演。該片拍得很成功， 曾遠銷國外。不過此時她卻解散公司，退出影壇，利用她主演的最後一部電影的收人在上海開辦了“漢倫美容院”，成爲商人。20世紀30年代,在日本侵佔上海前她還是很成功的商人。

Affer the foundation of new China, she became a member of Shanghai Film Actor Troupe, acted a supporting role of Empress Dowager in Wu Xun (1950). She had taken part in more than ten films, such as the artistic documentary film A Great Upsurge. On August 17, 1978, Wang Hanlun passed away in Shanghai.

新中國成立後，成爲上海電影演員劇團的成員，在《武訓傳》（1950)中扮演過配角慈禧，曾參加《熱浪奔騰》（1958)藝術紀錄片的拍攝。一生共參加10餘部影片的攝製。1978年8月17日，王漢倫病逝於上海，終年78歲。