Music Appreciation: The Kingdom and the Beauty
Friday Jan 28, 2022 @ 1:30 PM
Through the1950s and early 1960s, the Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong produced a string of gorgeous musicals, the most lavish of which was The Kingdom and the Beauty, which tells the story of a Ming Dynasty Emperor on vacation in a village reputed to have beautiful women. There, he meets and woos an innocent waitress working in a local wine shop, and the lucky lass becomes his concubine. This was my mother’s favorite Chinese movie, and the beautiful Lin Dai was her favorite Chinese actress. (1959, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 100 minutes.)