The first beauty to wear a bikini on the screen: If you pay 1 dong, the film crew will cover 3 dong

Kim Vui is known to be an extremely generous person, for 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.

Beautiful female singer, high sand

Kim Vui’s real name is Nguyet Chieu, born in Saigon in an ordinary family. Although the economy was not well off and there was no one in the family who followed the arts, in childhood, Kim Vui was still pampered by her parents and sent to learn ballet.

During the time when Western culture was introduced to Saigon, Kim Vui was influenced and switched to belly dance. This is a premise to help develop Kim Vui’s artistic talent later and make her possess a hot, balanced body, better than other female actresses of the time.

Kim Vui

The fate that made Kim Vui come to the entertainment industry early was because her parents were not happy together, so the family fell into difficulties. Kim Vui was forced to work to have money to cover her life.

In addition to her beautiful beauty, Kim Vui also has a beautiful, warm and inspirational voice, so it is quite convenient in her singing path. She became the first singer when she was sponsored by singer Minh Trang to sing and gave her stage name Kim Vui, with the wish that her life would always be happy and joyful.

However, Kim Vui 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 youthful, modern music and a little bit of romance and lyricism, matching her personality. In addition to Vietnamese music, she also sang English, French, and Italian music like many famous singers of the same time, influenced by European and American culture.

Kim Vui’s hot beauty

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’s voice is a bit hoarse but warm and emotional, strange timbre, 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, mature technique, wonderful humming. It’s a clear, ethereal voice.”

Thanks to that inspirational voice, plus her beautiful and charming appearance, Kim Vui is extremely expensive in shows and becomes a name that attracts guests at music stages. At her peak, every night she performed from 10 to 12 different tea rooms, achieving a high salary level, on par with famous singers like Le Thu, Khanh Ly…

Kim Vui once shared about her popularity: “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.”

The first person to wear a bikini on screen

Success on the music stage is a rose-lined path that leads Kim Vui to acting. After receiving many invitations to act in films from producers, the female singer decided to engage in acting.

However, the film career was not easy for Kim Vui like singing, although she was very photogenic and beautiful.. In the late 1960s, Kim Vui participated in a number of movies, but did not make much of an impression. with the audience.

An opportunity came to Kim Vui when she was invited by director Le Hoang Hoa to play the main role with Hung Cuong in a movie.

That role was originally directed at the star Tham Thuy Hang, but this beauty refused because she didn’t 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 the role, Kim Vui became a new and popular phenomenon in the art world. Although she did not appear much in the film, the beauty was still praised for her natural, honest and emotional acting.

Kim Vui quickly stepped into the ranks of movie stars, standing with Tham Thuy Hang, Kieu Chinh, and Thanh Nga.

Kim Vui and Hung Cuong

Although she does not have a brilliant film career like Tham Thuy Hang and Kieu Chinh, Kim Vui is considered a multi-talented female star, knowing how to act, sing, dance and dance.

She was greatly admired by the public thanks to her rare, hot and sexy beauty at that time. The audience favorably named her Elizabeth Taylor of Vietnam.

Her beauty and attractive body are also compared to the famous Italian princess Sophia Loren. Kim Vui has big, bright crystal eyes and curved, sexy lips. Her beauty is not pure Asian like other actors but a little liberal and healthy in the West.

The press also called Kim Vui “the most attractive woman of Saigon in the 60-70s”. Her beauty is described as a blend of Asian softness and Western fire, both aristocratic and liberal like Ava Gardner.

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

Kim Vui and Thanh Nga

It can be said that the appearance of Kim Vui 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 round charms.

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.”

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.

Rich, money can’t be spent

Kim Vui is a rather special case of an artist who is willing to give up the limelight even when he is still at his peak just because of his passion for business. She turned down a series of movie offers.

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

Kim Vui no longer has the mind to pursue art, she has to work to earn money to support her children. When she had enough capital, she withdrew herself from showbiz 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.

Kim Vui and Tham Thuy Hang

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 dollars in profit I tied up in a basket, I didn’t know what to do. The housekeeper asked for anything, I gave it.”

After that, she moved to the US to live and married her second husband, a foreigner. 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.

Besides acting, doing business, Kim Vui also has another passion of drawing and fashion design. She produces quite a few beautiful models and used to run a tailoring shop.