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林黛（1934年12月26日–1964年7月17日），原名程月如，英文名Linda，藝名「林黛」由其英文名音譯而來，祖籍廣西賓陽，生於廣西，父親程思遠為政界名人，日後曾任全國政協副主席及全國人民代表大會常務委員會副委員長。她幼年隨家人遷居桂林、重慶、南京，曾就讀廣西省立藝術專門學校音樂系及南京中華女中，1948年移居香港，並曾參與話劇演出。1950年獲袁仰安引薦加入長城電影製片有限公司，因父親的政治背景未受重用；1952年轉投永華影業公司，憑處女作《翠翠》（1953，改編自沈從文小說《邊城》）一舉成名。此後十一年間，她先後為永華、國泰、電懋、邵氏等公司主演五十多部電影，時裝、古裝皆宜；早年作品包括《翠翠》《金鳳》《漁家女》，亦曾在電懋主演《情場如戰場》《黃花閨女》等時裝片，並在《金蓮花》中一人分飾兩角。她主演的作品題材橫跨民初時裝、黃梅調戲曲、歌舞及古裝歷史片，並常在片中親自演唱插曲。1957年，她憑電懋《金蓮花》獲第四屆亞洲影展最佳女主角；1958年再憑邵氏由李翰祥執導的黃梅調電影《貂蟬》獲第五屆同項獎項；1961年，她以邵氏陶秦執導的《千嬌百媚》及《不了情》連奪第八、第九屆亞洲影展最佳女主角，成為四度登上該影展影后寶座的第一人，此紀錄至今未有人打破。她既能演歷史美人，又能演鄉村姑娘與現代都市女性，戲路寬廣；婚後她正式加盟邵氏，先後主演《紅娃》（1958）、《雲裳艷后》（1959）、《花團錦簇》（1963）等片，並多次與李翰祥、陶秦等導演合作，其主演的黃梅調及歌舞片多由她親自演唱並灌錄唱片。1959年，由李翰祥執導、她與趙雷主演的《江山美人》上映後狂收四十萬六千多元，票房紀錄高踞當年香港中西影片之冠；1962年，她主演的《白蛇傳》再打破香港中外影片票房紀錄。她的其他代表作還包括《妲己》（1964）及《王昭君》（1964）等。1961年她與龍雲之子龍繩勳結婚，1963年誕下一子。1964年7月17日，她在寓所服食安眠藥並吸入煤氣身亡，年僅二十九歲，遺下《寶蓮燈》（1964）與《藍與黑》下集尚未完成；《藍與黑》其後完成，於1966年公映，並奪得第十三屆亞洲影展最佳影片獎。據記載，龍繩勳在妻子離世後終身不再娶，並保留她在寓所內的陳設。1995年，她是香港電影明星郵票系列中唯一一位國語片女星，其後亦獲列入星光大道；2024年，香港電影資料館曾舉辦林黛回顧放映活動，重映其多部作品。
English
Lin Dai (26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Cheng Yuetyue and known in English as Linda, was a Mandarin-language film star of 1950s and 1960s Hong Kong; her stage name was a transliteration of 'Linda'. She was born in Guangxi, her ancestral home Binyang, the daughter of the politician Cheng Siyuan, who later became a vice-chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee. She spent her childhood in Guilin, Chongqing and Nanjing, studied music at the Guangxi Provincial Art College and attended Nanjing's Zhonghua Girls' Middle School, and moved to Hong Kong in 1948, where she took part in stage plays. In 1950 she joined Great Wall Movie Enterprises through the introduction of Yuan Yang'an but was not given leading roles because of her father's political background; in 1952 she moved to Yung Hwa, where her debut film The Emerald Green (1953), adapted from Shen Congwen's novel Border Town, made her name. Over the following eleven years she starred in more than fifty films for Yung Hwa, Cathay, MP & GI and Shaw Brothers, equally at home in modern and period dress, and played a dual role in The Golden Lotus. She won Best Actress at the Asian Film Festival four times: for The Golden Lotus (1957), for Li Han-hsiang's Huangmei opera Diau Charn (1958), and in 1961 for both Les Belles and Love Without End at the 8th and 9th editions, becoming the first person to take the festival's Best Actress award four times, a record still unbroken. In 1959 Li Han-hsiang's The Kingdom and the Beauty, starring Lin Dai and Chao Lei, took in more than HK$406,000 and topped that year's box office across both Chinese and Western films; in 1962 her Madam White Snake again broke Hong Kong's box-office record. Her other films include Red Doll (1958), The Belle of the Clouds (1959) and the colourful costume and musical pictures of the early 1960s. In 1961 she married Lung Shing-fan, a son of the Yunnan warlord Lung Yun, and gave birth to a son in 1963. On 17 July 1964 she died at her home from an overdose of sleeping pills and coal gas at the age of twenty-nine, leaving The Lotus Lamp (1964) and the lower half of The Blue and the Black unfinished; The Blue and the Black was completed and won Best Picture at the 13th Asian Film Festival. Lung Shing-fan never remarried and kept her belongings and furnishings as they had been, according to accounts. In 1995 she was the only Mandarin star in Hong Kong's film-star stamp series, she is now honoured on the Avenue of Stars, and in 2024 the Hong Kong Film Archive held a retrospective of her films.
