文化藝術人物 / Cultural figure

東方明珠

大字係領域(由已登記職業/領域派生),唔係姓氏。

Pearl Of The Orient

1948年至1960年

領域:藝術家

繁體中文

東方明珠,原名楊維瑛,廣東潮州人,是資深演員白雲的胞妹;白雲在三、四十年代活躍於上海及香港影壇,主演過逾百部電影;白雲原名楊維漢,祖籍廣東大埔,除華語外亦通英語及馬來語,是滬港兩地知名的性格演員。她在四十年代末投身影壇,最初以「白樺」為藝名,先後參演粵語片《再生緣》(1948),以及國語片《錦繡天堂》(1949)、《大俠復仇記》(1949)等。其後她改用藝名「東方明珠」,成為廈語片(閩南語片)的當紅女星,作品包括《新琵琶記》(1952)、《玉堂春》(1953)、《烏白蛇》上、續集(1954)、《孔雀東南飛》(1955)、《孟麗君》(1955)及下集《彩鳳戲雙龍》(1955),多數與兄長白雲搭檔演出。廈語片是在香港拍攝、以廈門腔閩南語發音的電影,主要市場在台灣及東南亞;戰後除國語片與粵語片外,這類方言片曾自成一個龐大的外銷市場,她正是這個片種全盛期的當家花旦之一。這批影片多由香港片廠出品,再配以廈門腔閩南語,發行到台灣、星馬一帶的閩南語社群;她與兄長白雲的兄妹搭檔在南洋亦有一批捧場客。同一時期她也接拍國語片,例如《神犬復仇記》(1953)及《仙女下凡》(1954)。一九五七年,她前赴台灣拍攝台語片《秋怨》,該片於一九六零年推出;隨著市場變化,廈語片在一九五零年代後期產量漸減。她是四十年代末至五十年代少數同時涉足粵語、國語及廈語三種片種的女演員,隨着廈語片產量下跌,她的演出亦逐漸減少。她先後涉足粵語、國語與廈語三種片種,是戰後香港影壇跨界方言片的代表人物之一。

English

The actress known as Pearl of the Orient, born Yeung Wai-ying and a native of Chaozhou in Guangdong, was the younger sister of the veteran actor Bai Yun, who appeared in more than a hundred films across Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1930s and 1940s. She entered films in the late 1940s under the stage name Pak Wa, appearing in the Cantonese picture The Story of Reincarnation (1948) and Mandarin films such as Paradise of Splendour (1949) and The Swordsman's Revenge (1949). Renaming herself Pearl of the Orient, she became a leading lady of Amoy-dialect (Hokkien) cinema, made in Hong Kong and spoken in the Amoy dialect for markets in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Her films include The New Pipa Story (1952), The Jade Hall of Spring (1953), Black and White Snake and its sequel (1954), Peacocks Fly Southeast (1955), Meng Lijun (1955) and its follow-up The Twin Dragons (1955), most of them opposite her brother Bai Yun. These Amoy-dialect pictures, produced by Hong Kong studios and distributed to Hokkien-speaking communities in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaya, gave the sibling pairing a following across the Nanyang market, though the genre's output declined in the late 1950s. During the same period she also took Mandarin roles including The Hound's Revenge (1953) and The Fairy Descends to Earth (1954). In 1957 she travelled to Taiwan to make the Hokkien-language film Autumn Grievance, released in 1960. Working across Cantonese, Mandarin and Amoy-dialect pictures, she was one of the representative figures of post-war Hong Kong's cross-dialect cinema.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

演員

年期Active period

1948年至1960年

代表作Notable works

《再生緣》《新琵琶記》《玉堂春》《烏白蛇》《孟麗君》《彩鳳戲雙龍》

資料整理日期 / Compiled: 2026-10-14

主要成就 Key Achievements

1948

以藝名「白樺」參演粵語片《再生緣》,開始從影。

Began her screen career under the stage name Pak Wa in the Cantonese film The Story of Reincarnation.

1954

演出廈語片《烏白蛇》上、續集,與兄長白雲搭檔。

Starred with her brother Bai Yun in the Amoy-dialect film Black and White Snake and its sequel.

1960

赴台灣拍攝閩南語片《秋怨》。

Travelled to Taiwan to make the Hokkien-language film Autumn Grievance.

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

東方明珠是戰後香港方言片黃金期的代表人物之一,她以廈語片為主,兼演粵語及國語片,作品行銷台灣與東南亞,反映當時香港電影工業面向華人離散市場的多元面貌,也見證方言片這個片種的興衰。

English

Pearl of the Orient was a representative figure of the golden age of post-war Hong Kong dialect cinema. Best known for Amoy-dialect films but also active in Cantonese and Mandarin pictures, she shows how the local industry served dispersed Chinese communities across Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

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