"Hello, I really like your song "Winter in Berlin" sung in the Olympics." Czechoslovak actress Lida Balova stretched out her hand gracefully.

"Hello, I also like the countess you played in "Girl in Blue" who came from the painting." Female star Anelise Ackerman responded generously.

During this brief greeting, there was a subtle chemical reaction between the two highly anticipated female stars.

"I heard you rejected MGM's long appointment." Female star Anelice Ackerman obviously did his homework, too.

"Ah, Hollywood! I could have been as famous as Marlene Dietrich!" Lida Barlower admitted without any concealment. Marlene Dietrich is the original singer of the song "Lily Marlene". She is also a female singer who was banned by her powerful lover: "Who knows, if it weren't for this film, I might have flew to New York."

"Ah? How did those Americans impress you?" female star Anelism Ackermann asked casually.

As a result, Czechoslova actress Lida Balova actually took it as a real one: "They showed me a new script and said it was a $3 million production... By the way, have you heard of Pearl Buck?"

"Of course, the female writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature." Female star Anelice Ackerman continued her flawless conversation: "Is it the adaptation of her award-winning work: The Good Earth?"

American female writer Pearl S. Buck came to China shortly after her birth with her missionary father and grew up in Huai'an, Zhenjiang and other places. In 1914, she graduated from Jinling University with a bachelor's degree; in 1919, she officially served as a teaching position at Jinling University. She completed the novel "The Land" describing the life of Chinese farmers in Nanjing. This work first won the Pulitzer Prize and in 1938, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Because she lived in China for a long time, the behavior and emotions of Chinese farmers she wrote were convincing.

"No, it's another "Dragon Seed". "The Vanity Fair of the Third Reich was expelled from the Third Reich for many years and returned to the spotlight to meet the German female star Anellys Akerman who really talked to her and avoided the awkward atmosphere on the boot scene, and the grateful Czechoslova actress Lida Barova talked more: "Although it's not the heroine, I think the supporting actress' role is more outstanding."

A year later, on July 20, 1944, the Hollywood blockbuster "Dragon Seed" was released in major theaters in the United States, and the following year was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and Best Photography Award.

Since this movie is a big investment from MGM, the cast is naturally extremely luxurious. Walter Houston plays the head of the family in the film - an old farmer rooted in the land, and the other actors have been famous for a long time. Of course, the most heavyweight is that the heroine is starring Catherine Hepburn, who won four Oscars.

What is this Hepburn's status in Hollywood film history?

The top 100 actresses who selected the 100-year-old movies in 1996 won the championship without any dispute. She was nominated for the Best Actress Award 12 times and won the Best Actress Award 4 times, and was the first person in Hollywood history. Before the filming, Katherine Hepburn read Pearl Buck's novel of the same name and learned various materials related to China. In order to play this rural Chinese woman well, she tried her best to stick her eyes into single eyelids, and her eyes were slightly raised up with eyeshadow, forming a phoenix eye full of oriental beauty.

According to Charles Heyman's book "The Life of Catherine Hepburn", the movie "costs three million US dollars". The set project involved was MGM, which was the most magnificent at the time. In order to restore the real rural areas of southern China, MGM rebuilt a village 36 miles from Los Angeles: transforming the mountains into terraces, laying a long water diversion pipeline for this, flooding a pond and terrace, using barley instead of rice planting; and building ten farmhouses, which looked very similar to the Chinese countryside.

The details of the movie are also very thoughtful: for example, the shepherd boys play the flute on the back of cows, men plant rice seedlings in the fields, women wash clothes by the river, and weave cloth in front of the loom. The costumes are also very good, and farmers wear coarse short jackets with double-breasted cloth, straw sandals and straw hats when planting rice. Usually white cloth socks and black cloth shoes, while scholars wear coarse robes... Especially the scene of the Chinese old lady played by white actors chewed the rice and fed the children, if she didn't have an in-depth understanding of the life of Chinese people, it would be impossible to take these vivid details. The only obvious mistake is that the person in charge of the props could not find the Chinese local dog, so she had to find a Schnauzer that had not been introduced to China at that time to replace it...

At that time, Hollywood was able to make works like "Dragon Seed" with a special reason: In that special war era, the collision and exchange of Sino-US cultures entered an unprecedentedly hot stage. For example, Pearl Buck, the original author of "Dragon Seed", established a civil group called the "East-West Association" in 1940. Because she believed that only through persistent exchanges can the communication barriers caused by the completely different historical and cultural backgrounds of China and the United States be overcome and the understanding and understanding of the people of the two countries can be enhanced.

Friendship. The magazine "Asia" sponsored by this association continued to promote China during the War of Resistance. For example, Edgar Snow's "China under the Red Star" ("The Journey to the West") was first published in this publication in the United States. The film "Dragon Seed" was born in 1944 when the victory of World War II was a group of rational Americans who were rare in later generations. They understood the significance of Sino-US friendship, unity and cooperation, and victory in World War II, so there was such a work.

Because of talking about this movie script that is still in the filming stage, the fate of the two female stars who appreciate each other began to be linked.

"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Katy, who brought champagne to the two female stars, transformed into the assistant director of the unnamed new film.

It is said that three women play together.

With the addition of the versatile Mrs. Katy, she immediately attracted the attention of the major newspapers and magazines present. She surrounded her face and took photos, "Murdering countless films (exploding a lot of film)".

"Ah, MGM is going to film "Dragon Seeds." Mrs. Katie has obviously read this famous book, "Ladies, beware that the Japanese Empire is our ally."

Although art has no borders, it is a war period after all. Even though art has no borders, artists have always had nationality.

"Of course, madam." The two female stars spoke in unison.

"When will we set out?" Anelise Ackermancha made the right shift.

"The faster the better." Mrs. Katy's expression changed in an instant, which also shows that the plan behind this outdoor shooting is definitely not simple.
Chapter completed!