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Not only had she never kissed a man, but the film's ending Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European,Ī change which she found insulting to his real Chinese lineage, and sheįelt her reputation was damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes However in the film she was given the name 真爱 Jen-Ai,( pronounced- Zhen-Ai, (Ài Wěi Dé- a Chinese approximation to ‘Aylward’ – meaning ‘Virtuous One’), For example, in real life she was given the Chinese name 艾偉德 Of the inn, named instead for the Chinese belief in the number 8 as beingĪuspicious. Significant meaning, such as those of her adopted children and the name Many characters and place names were changed, even when these names had Travels across Russia, China and Japan were reduced to, “a few rude soldiers”,Īfter which, “Hollywood's train delivered her neatly to Tsientsin.” To ‘his old friend’ Jeannie Lawson.” Also, Aylward's dangerous, complicated

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In favour of a movie plot device of an employer “condescending to write Of Aylward and her family to effect her initial trip to China were disregarded

With Aylward's small stature, dark hair and North London accent. The tall (1.75m/5’ 9”), blonde Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman was inconsistent Of the film, and television and media interviews, Aylward was mortifiedīy her depiction in the film and the liberties it took. She found herself a figure of international interest due to the popularity It drew from the book The Small Woman, by Alan Burgess. The height of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45).Ī film based on her life, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, was released Herself, she led more than 100 children over the mountains to safety at Four years later, despite being in ill health In China and is best known for her work with children. She was a formerĭomestic in the household of Sir Francis Younghusband turned missionary The real Gladys Aylward (1902–1970) was born in London. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, and filmed entirely in The film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in 1958.

Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a BritishĮvangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in theīook The Small Woman, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and made into The movie, is largely a fiction of Hollywood, as it changed lots of things. Inn Of Sixth Happiness, a movie based on the the life of Gladys Aylward (1902–1970)