Yan Shanshan is the first female film actress in China.
Yan Shanshan first opened the record of women's screen in 1913. That year, a Russian-American named Brasky returned to the United States because of difficulties in his production activities in Shanghai. While passing through Hong Kong, he collaborated with Lai Min-wai on a short feature film, Zhuangzi's Trial of Wife. The film was directed by Lai Minwei's brother Li Beihai and played by Zhuang Zhou, who wrote the script and countered Zhuang Zhou's wife; and Yan Shanshan played the role of a handmaiden in the film.
Ying Yin was a famous film and drama amphibious star in the 30s, but now readers can be said to be quite unfamiliar with her.
Her original name was Ying Jieqing, nicknamed Fengzhen, and she was born in Beijing on March 28, 1916. Her father was yinghua (潣之), the founder of the famous Ta Kung Pao, and she was the sister of Ying Qianli (Ji Liang), the former head of the English Department of National Taiwan University, that is, the aunt of Ying Ruocheng, Ying Ruozhi, and Ying Ruocong, and the aunt of Yingda, Yingzhuang, and Yingning.
Ying Ruocheng, a famous performing artist and translator and former vice minister of Culture of China, said that the image of Chen Bailu in Cao Yu's "Sunrise" is based on Yingyin. Yingda, a famous actor, said: "The first person in our family to engage in acting was my aunt, a famous film actor in Shanghai in the 30s, called Yingyin. ”
Republic of China film star Ruan Lingyu.
The life of a generation of film star Ruan Lingyu has been twisted and bitter, from a brilliant screen career to a gloomy personal life, which has become a topic of remembrance and debate in later generations. His emotional entanglement with Zhang Damin, Tang Jishan, and Cai Chusheng makes people sigh.
In 1926, he starred in his first film "Nominal Couple", thus starting his acting career. In 1930, he starred in the feature film "Spring Dream of the Old Capital". In 1932, he starred in the feature film "Continuing the Spring Dream of the Old Capital". In 1933, he played Ye Dajie in the feature film "Gadgets". In 1934, he starred in the feature film "New Woman" directed by Cai Chusheng.
On March 8, 1935, Ruan Lingyu committed suicide by taking sleeping pills at the age of 25.
Hu Die, the film queen of the 1940s, photographed at the Ama Photography Studio.
The above two photos are of an actress whose name is not yet known, with her facial features and temperament is also very dignified and elegant.