One last shot from my salvo of scans from Southern Screen No. 6 (May 1958). Li Lihua has never looked sexier, in my opinion, than in this photo shoot promoting her movie A Romantic Lady (1959), in which she plays the "sexually hungry" wife of an impotent husband. In the film Li Lihua becomes pregnant by her lover Yan Jun. Although her husband eventually offers to raise the child as his own, Li Lihua chooses instead to keep her baby and live "a poor as well as simple life" with her lover. Such a story is quite daring compared to other Hong Kong movies of that era, which were in general quite conservative. Produced by Li Lihua and her real-life husband Yan Jun, this is one film that I'd really love to see!
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