Chinese-born actress Joan Chen played Pu Yi's wife in this Oscar-winning 1987 epic
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The Last Emperor (1987) - IMDb  Biography  The story of the final Emperor of China. ... With John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying. The story of the final Emperor of China. ... The Last Emperor -- China's final Emperor is chronicled in this Oscar winning film ..... it's the story of Pu Yi (born 1906) who was the last absolute monarch of China.
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1987 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  Actress: CHER in "Moonstruck", Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction", Holly Hunter ... The spectacular historical epic, shot in China's Forbidden City (the first ever), dramatized the life of Pu Yi (played as an adult by John Lone), China's last Manchu ... The film's nine Oscar wins was the largest victory since West Side Story (1961)...
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The Last Emperor: 1987 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 9, 2014 ... Cher and Olympia Dukakis took home Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Moonstruck. ... INTERNATIONAL ACTRESSES $400: Chinese-born actress Joan Chen played Pu Yi's wife in this Oscar-winning 1987 epic
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The Last Emperor Movie Review (1987) | Roger Ebert  Dec 9, 1987 ... This is a strange epic because it is about an entirely passive character. ... "Lawrence of Arabia," "Gandhi" - but Pu Yi was born into a world that allowed him no initiative ... There is a scene early in the film when Pu Yi, seated on the Dragon ... marriage, and he takes an empress (Joan Chen) and a concubine.
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DVD Savant Review: The Last Emperor - DVD Talk  Feb 21, 2008 ... 1987 / Color / 2.00:1 anamorphic widescreen / 165 + 218 min. ... Bernardo Bertolucci advances the case of the historical epic with 1987's big Oscar winner The Last Emperor, ... Filmed in English and Chinese in the real Forbidden City in Peiping, ... Pu Yi marries a pre-chosen bride, Wan Jung (Joan Chen).
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Nixon in China - Wikipedia  Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman. ... Chinese Premier Chou En-lai stated that the handshake he and Nixon had shared on the airport tarmac at the beginning .... In the evening the presidential party, as guests of Mao's wife Chiang Ch'ing, attends the Peking Opera for a...
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The Last Emperor: 1987 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 9, 2014 ... IT'S CHER'S WORLD $400: In 1987 Cher won acclaim as Brooklyn bookkeeper Loretta Castorini in this film. I THINK I MISSED THAT MOVIE...
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The Last Emperor: 1987 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 9, 2014 ... REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $600: This 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film told the story of Chinese ruler Pu Yi ... GNOME-ENCLATURE $800: Billy Barty played the title role in the 1987 film about this gold-spinning gnome. FAMOUS...
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Joan Chen : Richard Gere, Beijing and me | The Independent  Jun 7, 2001 ... Joan Chen : Richard Gere, Beijing and me ... through a lachrymose romance about an andropausal playboy (Richard Gere) going ... Somewhere behind her, Winona Ryder's face fizzes and wobbles on a video monitor. .... I feel as if I've finally got rid of some kind of umbilical cord that needed to dry and fall.
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The China Syndrome - Wikipedia  The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a television reporter and her cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas, with Douglas also ... Richard surreptitiously films the incident, despite being requested to not film...
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Joanne Woodward - Wikipedia  Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, activist, and philanthropist. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957) and for being the wife of Paul Newman. ... She appeared with husband Paul Newman in ten feature films:.
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The Messenger:Joan of Arc - Hollywood Jesus  No one in the audience sheds a single tear for Joan. ... In the FIFTH ELEMENT the perfect human, Leeloo, played by Milla Jovovich (his ex-wife and Joan of Arc)...
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From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi  Editorial Reviews. Language Notes. Text: English (translation) Original Language: Chinese ... This firsthand description of the dramatic events of Pu Yi's life was the basis for the internationally acclaimed 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film ..... The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China Paperback.
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The Lady From Shanghai (1948) - Greatest Films  The film, originally titled Take This Woman and then Black Irish, was made when major stars Orson Welles and Rita ... Gamble? She's done it for a living. Michael: I'll bet you a dollar I've been to the place where you were born. Elsa: Chifu. Michael: It's on the China coast. Chifu. It's the second wickedest city in the world.
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Autumn in New York (2000) - Photo Gallery - IMDb  Richard Gere and Joan Chen in Autumn in New York (2000) Richard Gere in ... Romantic drama about an aging playboy who falls for a sweet, but terminally ill,...
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1995 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  GREATEST FILMS ... 1995 Academy Awards ... BRAVEHEART (1995) ... Joan Allen in "Nixon", Kathleen Quinlan in "Apollo 13", Mare Winningham in ... Two of the five directors of Best Picture nominees were not nominated as Best Director: ... nun-playing actress in Academy history to win an Oscar for her performance,...
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The Scarlet Empress Movie Review (1934) | Roger Ebert  Jan 16, 2005 ... The film tells the story of Catherine the Great as a bizarre visual ... soldiers, and then it's observed of Catherine, "she's always picking up the archduke's soldiers. ... The doors are so heavy it takes two men or six women to swing them open. ... "Shanghai Express," "Blonde Venus," "The Scarlet Empress" and...
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Peggy Sue Got Married - Wikipedia  Peggy Sue Got Married is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Kathleen Turner as a woman on the verge of a divorce, who finds herself transported back to the days of her senior year in high school in 1960 ... One night after a party, Peggy decides to sleep with Charlie. He then...
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The Last Emperor: 1987 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 9, 2014 ... HOLLYWOOD $600: David Mamet wrote the screenplay for this 1987 film about Eliot Ness & Co. IT'S CHER'S WORLD $400: In 1987 Cher won...
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Actress Joan Chen  A life like a movie | gbtimes.com  Apr 26, 2011 ... Chinese actress Joan Chen's life reads like a movie: The tomboy with looks to die ... in the epic Hollywood production the Last Emperor, now resides in the US. ... role by veteran director Xie Jin in the 1977 drama called Youth (). ... to make Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder.
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Nine Months (1995) - IMDb  Comedy  When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he ... Directed by Chris Columbus. With Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack. When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, ... Writers: Patrick Braoud (film "Neuf mois"), Chris Columbus (screenplay)...