Olive Young (actress), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Olive Young (actress)

American-born Chinese actress and blues singer

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1903

Place of Birth: St. Joseph, Missouri, United States

Date of Death: 05-Oct-1940

Profession: actor

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Olive Young (actress)

  • Olive Young (June 21, 1903 – October 5, 1940), sinocized as Aili Yang (???) on the movie screen, was an American-born film actress in China.Of Chinese-ancestry, she visited China, where she may have been the first female motion picture photographer and movie director in China." Later in life she became an American actress and a touring Blues singer.
  • A cover-girl for Liangyou pictorial magazine, she was labeled a flapper, a career woman, part of the movement of modern independent women worldwide which also included China's "new-age woman" (?????) or "modern miss" (????), and the Japanese "modern girl".In 1926 she broke the taboo against kissing in Chinese movies, causing Chinese moviegoers to "gasp".

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