Li Lili is a Chinese actress who moved to Shanghai in 1927 and joined a troupe to learn singing and dancing. She became a movie actress in 1931. After the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, she traveled between Chungking (Chongqing) and Hong Kong to make films. She went to the USA in 1946 to study English, music, and make-up and was even attached to Hollywood to learn acting. She returned to China in 1947. After China was liberated, Beijing Film Studio signed her as an actress. In 1955, she was enrolled in the newly established Beijing Film Academy and became a professor of the Academy after she graduated. During the Cultural Revolution, Li and her husband were denounced and tortured on the orders of Mao's wife Jiang Qing. Li later told her family that she had refused to denounce anyone.

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