Biography
Olive Young (June 21, 1903 – October 5, 1940), sinocized as Aili Yang (楊愛立) 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" (新時代女性) or "modern miss" (摩登小姐), 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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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1903-06-21
Deathday1940-10-04 (37 years old)
Birth PlaceSt. Joseph, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsYang Aili, 杨爱立, 楊愛立
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