Chung Ching in "The Magic Lamp"

Chung Ching (鍾情) in 1964 film "The Magic Lamp" (寶蓮燈), along with Jeanette Lin Tsui (林翠) and Annette Chang Hui-Hsien (張慧嫻).

Chung Ching was a popular Mandarin film star in Hong Kong during the late 1950s. She rose to fame in a series of musicals in which she typically played "a country maiden transposed to the city, or an urban sophisticate who ends up back on the farm" (Paul Fonoroff). Because of her petite stature, vivacious personality, and sexy looks, she was dubbed "The Little Wildcat".

Her small role as a school bully in "The Magic Lamp" comes towards the end of her career and is not typical of the roles for which she is famous, but it does exhibit some of the "heat" of her screen persona.

Chung Ching married in 1967 and retired from the film industry. Since then she has made a name for herself as a painter and photographer.

For more information, visit
Soft Film: Vintage Chinese Cinema http://softfilm.blogspot.com/2008/07/little-more-chung-ching.html

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