Olive Young (actress)

Olive Young
Olive Young
	Actress and singer Olive Young plays a hammered dulcimer, which the Associated Press called a "butterfly harp".
Born	June 21, 1903; St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S.
Died	October 5, 1940 (aged 37); Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
Other names	Olive Young Lum (married name); Pei Fen Young (stage name);
Occupations	Actress, Blues singer
Years active	1925–1932
Spouse	Alfred C.S. Lum (married about 1933)
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Olive Young (Chinese: 楊愛立; pinyin: Yáng Àilì; June 21, 1903 – October 5, 1940) was an American-born film actress in China.

Of Chinese ancestry, she visited China, where she may have been the first female motion picture photographer and movie director in China. Later in life she became an American actress and a touring Blues singer. A cover-girl for Liangyou pictorial magazine, she was labeled a flapper, a career woman, part of the movement of modern independent women worldwide which also included China's "new-age woman" (新時代女性) or "modern miss" (摩登小姐), and the Japanese "modern girl".

In 1926 she broke the taboo against kissing in Chinese movies, causing Chinese moviegoers to "gasp".