Húdié céng bèi píng wéi Zhōngguó dì yī wèi diànyǐng huánghòu.
Hu Die was once crowned China's first 'Movie Queen'.
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culture
胡蝶 literally reads as a variant of 蝴蝶 (butterfly) — her stage name was a deliberate pun on the insect, and she was widely called 'Butterfly Wu' in English-language press.
history
She starred in China's first sound film 《歌女红牡丹》 (1931) and fled to Hong Kong after the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.
