Patricia Joe

Zhou Kunling (Patricia Joe) was born in 1924. Her father was a tobacco merchant in Hawaii, USA. Zhou Kunling was born and raised there and studied Cantonese opera since she was a child. She and her sister Zhou Kunyu are both female movie stars. 21-year-old Zhou Kunling works as a business secretary in San Francisco during the day. At night, she works in the Grand View Film Company in San Francisco Chinatown. She participates in movies for $300 per scene and is known as the "Chinese version of Hedy Lamarr" (coquettish and sexy). porn star). Her screen debut was in the American Cantonese film "Cape Lovers"; in her second film "National Disaster" (The Miser's Fate), she played the heroine and has many fans in San Francisco and New York. In 1947, she began filming in Hong Kong until 1957. Her first starring role in Hong Kong was "Afraid of Meeting an Old Lover" (1947). Zhou Kunling's other famous works include: "Fan Dou" (1951), "Crying the Red" (1951), "Splendid Years" (1951), "Fragrant Romance" (1953) and so on. The last work was "Love Again" (1963). From 1947 to 1963, she participated in nearly 200 films in Hong Kong, among which "The Little Girl" (1961) and "The Little Matchmaker" (1961) were the most popular. It took me several months to study under Pink Juhua. She was known as the "Queen of Colors" after filming the color film "Cape Love" in the United States. However, after moving to Hong Kong to shoot black and white films, she has never shot a color film. Zhou Kunling is considered one of the three beauties in Cantonese feature films. On February 3, 1962, he was interviewed by Leung Dehai on Hong Kong Commercial Radio's "Top Ten Most Popular Cantonese Film Specials" program. In 1964, when Hong Kong artist Ho Fei Fei performed in San Francisco, the United States, he lived in the home of Huang Chaowu (a former Hong Kong artist who later moved to the United States to open a restaurant) and Zhou Kunling. There were scandals, which led to Zhou Kunling and Huang Chaowu's subsequent divorce. This rumor has caused certain damage to the reputations of both He Feifan and Zhou Kunling, and has also hindered their career development. Zhou Kunling made an inspection visit to Southeast Asia in July 1966. It is said that Zhou Kunling passed away in 2020 at the age of 96.