Patricia Lam Fung was Shaw Brother's answer to MP&GI's singing-and-dancing diva Grace Chang. In 1957 Chang had became a huge star with Mambo Girl, which was tailored to showcase her talents. The film also introduced to Chinese audiences the latest latin dance styles. Never failing to cash in on a trend, Shaws followed suit with A Pretty Girl's Love Affair (1958), where it was Lam Fung's turn to dance the cha-cha. Indeed, one of the film's songs was called "Why Don't You Learn Cha-cha" and to get movie fans up to speed before the film's release, Lam demonstrated some of her moves in the February 1958 issue of Southern Screen. Three years later, she was still keeping up with the "latest dance steps" (Southern Screen No. 36, Feb. 1961).
Sadly, it's not possible to see how Lam Fung's cha-cha compared with Grace Chang's, but this clip from one of Lam's later films in the mid-60s shows that she was no slouch on the dance floor.
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