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Calendar Girl (1959)
Directed by Doe Ching
Overview
Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the ‘Calendar Girl’ pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun’s musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu’s mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.
Length 114 minutes
Actors
Helen Li Mei | Diana Chang Chung-Wen | Peter Chen Ho | Lo Wei | Lin Jing | Wu Chia-Hsiang | Cheung Kwong-Chiu | Yeung Yee-Muk | Shen Chong | William Wen | Chu Kuan-Chun | Chui Dai-Chuen | Wong Chung