Kim Vui: the most attractive woman of Saigon in the 60s and 70s

Referring to the Vietnamese movie stars of the previous generation, people often remember big names like Thanh Nga , Tham Thuy Hang, Kieu Chinh, and Kim Cuong. However, there is another actress who was also very famous and is seen as a beauty symbol that makes many people fall in love. It's actor Kim Vui.

Great beauty with soaring sand, going to sing 12 tea rooms every night

Talking about the beauties of the old Vietnamese screen, it would be remiss not to mention actress Kim Vui. Looking at Kim Vui, it is easy to see images of international stars such as Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth. Kim Vui's real name is Nguyet Chieu, born in Saigon in an ordinary family. As a child, she was pampered by her parents and sent her to ballet lessons. Then she switched to belly dance. This is the premise to help develop Kim Vui's artistic talent later and make her possess a hot, balanced body.

However, because her parents lived together unhappy, her family fell into difficulties, causing Kim Vui to go to work and enter the entertainment industry early.

For the first time, Kim Vui was sponsored by singer Minh Trang to sing and gave this stage name, with the wish that life will always be happy and happy. However, she herself once had to painfully admit: "My life is more sad than happy".

At the age of 17, Kim Vui participated in a singing contest at a television station and made a strong impression on the station director. Since then, she was invited to sign a recording contract, sing, and officially become a singer, quickly becoming famous in a short time.

Kim Vui mainly shows young, modern music and a little bit of romance and lyricism, suitable for her personality. In addition to Vietnamese music, she also sings English, French and Italian music.

During the last five years of the 1950s, Kim Vui along with Minh Tuyet, Tuyet Hang... emerged as a phenomenon of a new wave in the new music scene.

Kim Vui has a pretty good voice, a little hoarse but warm and emotional, a strange timbre, and quite technical, expressed through the way of vibrating and releasing words, just as the writer Ho Truong An once said: Kim Vui has a good voice, smooth breath, old technique, great humming. It's a clear, ethereal voice."

Thanks to that inspirational voice, plus her beautiful and charming appearance, Kim Vui is extremely expensive to show and becomes a name that attracts guests at music stages. At her peak, every night she performed from 10 to 12 different tea rooms. She has a pretty high salary level.

Regarding his popularity, Kim Vui once said: "If I go to sing at a tea room, there are 20 people following me. I go to the second tea room, those 20 people continue to follow me. Until I pass the second tea room. 3, still those 20 people followed me, along with a bunch of other people."

Because of his popularity, Kim Vui decided to enter the acting field according to some invitations. However, her film career was not easy for her. In the late 1960s, she participated in a number of movies, but did not impress the audience much.

An opportunity came to Kim Vui when she was invited by director Le Hoang Hoa to play the main role in the movie Purple Chan with Hung Cuong. Initially, the role of Kim Vui was directed by the director to Tham Thuy Hang, but this beauty refused because she did not want to co-star with a reformed double actor, Hung Cuong. Thanks to that, Kim Vui was chosen as a replacement.

Thanks to his liberal and well-rounded acting, after this film, Kim Vui became a new and popular phenomenon in the film industry. In particular, although Kim Vui appeared not much in the film, she was praised for her natural, honest and emotional acting.

The movie Purple Horizon premiered in 1971 and caused a rare box office craze. Kim Vui quickly stepped into the movie stars, standing with Tham Thuy Hang, Kieu Chinh, and Thanh Nga. The role of a passionate jazz singer in the movie Purple Horizon appeared next to Hung Cuong, Kim Vui's name shined brightly, winning the best actress award of the 1971 Art and Literature Award of the government. Organized by the President, and President Nguyen Van Thieu personally presented Kim Vui with a golden statue on the night of the awards ceremony at the Independence Palace.

Although she did not have a brilliant movie career, Kim Vui is considered a multi-talented actress, knowing how to act, sing, dance and dance.

She is widely admired by the public thanks to her rare, hot and sexy beauty. The audience favored her as Elizabeth Taylor of Vietnam.

Her beauty and attractive body are also compared to the famous Italian princess Sophia Loren. The press in Saigon also called Kim Vui "the most attractive woman of Saigon in the 60s and 70s". It is a beauty that blends Asian softness and Western fire, both aristocratic and liberal like Ava Gardner.

Kim Vui was the first person who dared to wear a bikini on the screen, showing off her body full of vitality, with three full and seductive measurements, making anyone fascinated.

The public considers her to be the hottest, most fiery female star on the screen, surpassing even Tham Thuy Hang. It can be said that Kim Vui's appearance has created a new wind full of innovation, significantly affecting the culture, art enjoyment and the way of dress and lifestyle of the contemporary public.

Regarding the beauty of Kim Vui, writer Ho Truong An once said: "If Kim Vui wears ao dai, the ao dai must be indebted to her, because thanks to her, the shirt can achieve beauty in the work of supporting the wearer's chest and waist. encrusted with enchanting round features.

Kim Vui wears a red off-the-shoulder dress, and wears black gloves that are pulled too low, she looks as fiery as Rita Hayworth in Gilda."

Once upon a time, female artist Kim Vui joined the Dialogue Kim Cuong band, playing a very good role in the plays Miss a Step, I Am a Mother. Realizing that in the Diamond Drama group, the talented female artist Kim Cuong "won all" sympathetic roles, and the solo role was for her, so soon Kim Vui separated from that theater group.

Private life is difficult with two boats, but rich, money can't be spent

Despite being so famous, his passion for business made Kim Vui quickly retire from his film career right at his peak. Immediately after the success of the movie Purple Horizon, she stopped acting despite receiving many offers.

The reason Kim Vui did this was because her personal life was not happy. Her first husband was an alcoholic and negligent, unable to take care of his family, and her daughter was terminally ill and had to be hospitalized continuously.

That's why Kim Vui has to work to earn money. When she had enough capital, she withdrew from showbiz herself to spend time taking care of her children, not wanting to let her art work go early and late at night to affect her own family.

Not only that, she has to manage a record label and printing house, plus a number of other small businesses, so the work is quite busy.

Thanks to a successful business, Kim Vui's life gradually became rich and rich, making her no longer interested in acting and singing. She said: "The millions of millions of money I tied up in a basket, I didn't know what to do. The housekeeper asked for anything I gave."

After that, she moved to America to live and married her second husband, a foreigner. In overseas, there were also many words that Kim Vui went to film or participate in entertainment activities, but she refused to continue pursuing the business.

In addition to acting, doing business, Kim Vui also has another passion of drawing and fashion design.

In real life, Kim Vui is known to be an extremely generous person. If you go to a movie with a salary of 1 dong, you have to spend up to 3 dong for everyone in the group to eat and drink. She acted completely out of passion because right from that time, she had her own income thanks to business.

About life now at the age of 80 in the United States, Kim Vui is living with her current foreign husband, a writer, and a former CIA agent named Frank, who has had a long-term relationship. years with her, but they had only been married a few years.

Kim Vui said that they met in 1963 when she went to sing at an American tea room in Da Lat, then fell in love but failed, because the job of a spy at that time was very complicated, moved a lot and kept her identity secret. . More than 50 years later, Mr. Frank accidentally found Kim Vui's phone number and reconnected with the old love when both became single again.

Kim Vui told about the present days as follows: "Now, I go to church every weekend to pray for a peaceful end of life and die peacefully beside Frank. I have no regrets or dreams. again".