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葛蘭原名張玉芳，祖籍浙江海寧，生於南京，在上海長大，1940年代末隨家人移居香港（其出生年份有1933與1934兩說）。她自幼接受音樂訓練，兼習西洋聲樂、鋼琴及舞蹈，並曾隨崑曲大師俞振飛學崑曲唱腔。1952年她就讀高三時投考卜萬蒼主持的泰山演員訓練班，1953年以《七姊妹》初登銀幕，其後為不同公司拍片，包括《碧血黃花》（1954）、中泰合作的《玉鳳》（1955）及《酒色財氣》（1957）。1955年她簽約國際影片發行公司（國際電影懋業有限公司的前身），首作為《驚魂記》（1956）；電懋其後為她度身開拍《曼波女郎》（1957），把拉丁舞步與流行樂結合，掀起一股「曼波熱」，令她聲名大噪，以健康活潑、能歌擅舞的形象成為公司台柱。代表作有《空中小姐》（1959）、《香車美人》（1959）、《星星．月亮．太陽》（1961）及國語歌舞片經典《野玫瑰之戀》（1960），後者她飾演性格潑辣的歌女，被視為其巔峰之作。她十一年的從影生涯共拍片三十三部，亦曾在電影中演唱京劇與崑曲，並在京劇名伶章遏雲的戲曲片《王寶釧》客串，又於1954年在美國片《江湖客》中亮相。她為百代灌錄不少唱片，曾赴美在丹娜蕭的電視節目演出，並推出英文唱片專輯。1961年她與望族之後高福全結婚，停影十個月後復出主演《教我如何不想她》（1963），至《啼笑姻緣》（1964）正式退出影壇。九十年代初百代重發她的唱片，一度再掀熱潮；她的歌聲其後亦見於《洞》（1998）、《天邊一朵雲》（2005）及《我的超豪男友》（2018）等電影的配樂。2026年8月3日，她於香港安詳離世，享年93歲。
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Grace Chang, born Zhang Yufang into a Zhejiang family and schooled in Shanghai, moved to Hong Kong with her relatives in the late 1940s. In 1952, then in her final year of secondary school, she joined the Taishan Film Company's actor-training programme run by Bu Wancang, and made her screen debut in The Seven Maidens (1953). She went on to work for various companies, including The 72 Martyrs of Canton (1954), the China–Thailand co-production A Jade Phoenix (1955) and Wine, Women and Money (1957). Signing with International Films Distributing Agency, forerunner of Motion Picture and General Investment (MP & GI), she made Surprise (1956), and the studio then tailored Mambo Girl (1957) to her, blending Latin dance steps with pop music and setting off a 'mambo craze' that made her a star on a healthy, lively image and a gift for singing and dancing. Her prominent works include Air Hostess (1959), Our Dream Car (1959), Sun, Moon and Star (1961) and the classic Mandarin musical The Wild, Wild Rose (1960). Married in 1961 to Gao Fuquan of a prominent family, she returned after a ten-month break to star in Because of Her (1963) and retired after A Story of Three Loves (1964), having appeared in 33 films over eleven years. Trained from childhood in piano, formal voice and dance, and later in Kunqu singing under the master Yu Zhenfei, she performed Peking and Kunqu opera on screen and took a cameo in the opera film Wang Baochuan featuring the Peking-opera master Zhang Eyun, and also appeared in the American film Soldier of Fortune (1954). She recorded widely for Pathe, performed on Dinah Shore's television show and released an English album. When Pathe reissued her records in the early 1990s, interest in her revived, and her voice later featured on the soundtracks of The Hole (1998), The Wayward Cloud (2005) and Crazy Rich Asians (2018). She died peacefully in Hong Kong on 3 August 2026, aged 93.
