The more I see of Lam Fung in the pages of movie magazines, the more I am convinced that she wasn't your typical jade girl, not just your ordinary girl-next-door. With her ability to effortlessly adopt an endless array of looks and personas, she was more like a Super Girl-next-door.
Patricia had an expansive energy that cool, reserved jade girls like Lucilla Yu Ming and Grace Ting Ning lacked. Only the spirited, high-wattage Grace Chang could match her in sheer exuberance. Even so — and I'm going out on a limb by saying this, without having seen a single one of her early films — I believe that it was Lam Fung who was the brighter star.
The continued unavailability of Patricia's Shaw Brothers films is truly a great loss to the history of Chinese cinema and a dishonor to the memory of Hong Kong's beloved golden girl.
* Thanks to Oldflames for the absolutely amazing Happiness Pictorial cover. It's a perfect peach of a picture!
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