李绮年Lee Yi-Nin

李绮年Lee Yi-Nin（1914年—1950年11月4日），原名李楚卿，籍贯广东省，活跃于1930年代至1940年代的粤剧艳旦及电影演员。 11岁首次参演粤剧《回春之曲》； 1938年7月主演粤剧《貂蝉拜月》，为中华民国的伤兵难民募集4,000多港元；于1938年8月7日受“邵氏兄弟公司”签约聘请三个月，以月薪2,000港元及2,000叻元（新加坡元），出发到南洋（现在的新加坡、马来西亚及文莱）一带60多家戏院演出粤剧：《梁红玉》、《西施》、《花木兰》、《王昭君》、《貂蝉拜月》、《卓文君》及《燕子笺》等。 1932年为了见她的偶像阮玲玉小姐，曾到上海市独自生活一年，每天的工作，只是看阮玲玉的电影及“联华公司”的电影。回港就进入电影工作，李楚卿最初以艺名“李绮莲”，然而宣传部李芝清先生笔误成“李绮年”，李楚卿遂沿用“李绮年”作艺名。 20岁报考香港“大观声片公司”，开始她的银幕生涯。 银幕处女作《昨日之歌》（1935年），担任第一女主角，饰演贤妻云英，新靓就（关德兴）饰演她的不忠丈夫冰鸿；黄曼梨饰演她的女儿月娴。 爱国电影《生命线》（1935年），担任第一女主角，饰演贤妻廖夫人，使李绮年获得了‘爱国影星’美誉。 居住在九龙土瓜湾谭公道28号三楼，室内配以蓝色墙及蓝色窗帘，书柜填满书籍。她习惯每天阅读两小时英文书籍，有系统地回答影迷的信件。 1939年夏季在香港岛铜锣湾利舞台举行两天“李绮年照片展览”，义卖照片为中华民国抗战筹款。 曾经到上海拍摄国语片，担纲主演两出古装电影《女皇帝》（1940年）及《梁红玉》(1940年)；四出时装电影《风流寡妇》（1941年）、《天长地久》（1941年）、《现代青年》(1941年)及《贼美人》（1942年），然后结婚息影。 1948年，李绮年在香港复出，演出《花香衬马蹄》（1948年）等片，可惜已无复昔日光辉。 李绮年的电影遗作是《卖肉救家姑》（1949年），饰演贤妻余若冰。 李绮年一生参演的40多出电影尽是香港及上海的黑白粤语及国语声片。 李绮年在1949年3月17日离开香港到越南演出，首站是西贡堤岸。1950年11月3日晚上，李绮年在海防演毕《午夜魂归》一剧后，在1950年11月4日凌晨1时30分因服食一瓶安眠药昏迷被发觉，急送到海防“唐吉街市立医院”救治，延至1950年11月4日晚上8时30分终告不治，享年36岁。由于当年安眠药均为巴比妥类药品，风险极高，故是药故还是自杀，直到目前也无法定论。 另一报道说，李绮年在柬埔寨首都金边服用过量安眠药离。 Li Qinian(李绮年Lee Yi-Nin 1914 - November 4, 1950), formerly known as Li Chuqing, was a native of Guangdong Province and was a Cantonese opera actress and film actress active from the 1930s to the 1940s. Participated in the Cantonese opera "Rejuvenation Song" for the first time at the age of 11; In July 1938, she starred in the Cantonese opera "Diao Chan Worships the Moon", raising more than 4,000 Hong Kong dollars for the wounded soldiers and refugees of the Republic of China. On August 7, 1938, she was contracted by "Shaw Brothers" for three months, with a monthly salary of 2,000 Hong Kong dollars and 2,000 Wen Yuan (Singapore dollar), set off to more than 60 theaters in Nanyang (now Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei) to perform Cantonese opera: "Liang Hongyu", "Xi Shi", "Mulan", "Wang Zhaojun", "Diao Chan Worships the Moon" ”, “Zhuo Wenjun” and “Swallow Notes” etc. In 1948, Li Qinian came back in Hong Kong and performed in films such as "Flowers Lining Horse Shoes" (1948). Unfortunately, she has lost her former glory. Li Qinian's final film is "Selling Meat to Save My Aunt" (1949), in which she played the role of the good wife Yu Ruobing. The more than 40 films that Li Qinian participated in in her lifetime were all black and white Cantonese and Mandarin sound films from Hong Kong and Shanghai. Li Qinian left Hong Kong to perform in Vietnam on March 17, 1949. The first stop was Saigon Embankment. On the night of November 3, 1950, after Li Qinian performed the play "The Return of the Soul at Midnight" in Hai Phong, she was found unconscious at 1:30 a.m. on November 4, 1950 after taking a bottle of sleeping pills and was rushed to Hai Phong. Treatment at the Street Municipal Hospital was postponed until 8:30 pm on November 4, 1950, when she finally died at the age of 36. Since sleeping pills at that time were all barbiturates and were extremely risky, whether it was a drug accident or suicide has not been determined until now.