Long Live the Missus! 太太萬歲 (1947) with English subtitles

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A Chinese take on the screwball comedy, featuring an over-eager-to-please upper class housewife, her unreliable spouse, and a glamorous seductress in Civil War-era Shanghai. Shangguan Yunzhu steals the show as the homewrecker “Mimi,” as does Shi Hui as the hilarious Old Mr. Chen. The tightly-plotted screenplay is by Eileen Chang, one of modern China’s most celebrated writers and author of the story “Lust, Caution.”

"Long Live the Missus!" is discussed in chapter 10 of the book "Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949": https://cup.columbia.edu/book/....chinese-film-classic

Watch two video lectures about "Long Live the Missus!" by UBC professor Christopher Rea:
Video lecture 1: https://youtu.be/P4kZuF_lxt0
Video lecture 2: https://youtu.be/GrL4LPk0Ox4

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Other films of the Chinese Civil War era available on the playlist include:
"Spring River Flows East" 一江春水向東流 (1947)
"Love Everlasting" 不了情 (1947)
"Spring in a Small Town" 小城之春 (1948)
"Wanderings of Three-Hairs the Orphan" 三毛流浪記 (1949) (Shangguan Yunzhu appears with her daughter)
"Crows and Sparrows" 烏鴉與麻雀 (1949) (stars Shangguan Yunzhu)

ABOUT THE FILM:
Taitai wansui
Produced by Wenhua Film Co.
Directed by Sang Hu 桑弧
Screenplay by Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing 張愛玲)
Starring Shangguan Yunzhu 上官雲珠, Shi Hui 石揮, Wang Yi 汪漪, Zhang Fa 張伐, Lu Shan 路珊, Jiang Tianliu 蔣天流, Han Fei 韓非
English subtitles translated by Christopher Rea

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