Zhao Dan, known as the "love saint of the silver altar", has cooperated with more than 60 female stars to shoot films in his lifetime.
Zhao Dan made 46 films in his lifetime, starting with the Star Film Company and later the Shanghai Film Studio. He has worked with more than 60 female stars. It includes China's first-line movie stars, from the film queen of the Republic of China to the 22 stars of new China. He is unique among Chinese male celebrities.
Wu Yin, known as the "first old lady of the East", has made 48 movies in her lifetime. Among them, Wu Yin and Zhao Dan have co-produced as many as ten films, which is one of the actors who have made the most films with female stars.
Wu Yin has played various types of middle-aged and elderly women from all walks of life in China, and is well-known in the film industry for playing the "old woman", which can be called the "first old lady in the East" in the Chinese film industry.
In the 1940s, China produced a series of excellent film works, such as "Plugging in the Wind and Clouds", "Eight Thousand Miles of Road Clouds and Moons", "A River of Spring Water Flows East", "Ten Thousand Lights", "Reunion", "Crows and Sparrows" and so on. Among these film masterpieces, there is a common figure appearing, she is Wu Yin.
In 1949, Wu Yin starred with Zhao Dan, Sun Daolin, Huang Zongying, Shangguan Yunzhu and others in "The Crow and the Sparrow", and played a husband and wife with Zhao Dan. Through her expressive performance, she portrayed the image of a low-level woman with a straightforward personality and a spirit of resistance to an extremely vivid one. As a result, she won the first prize of the Ministry of Culture's 1949-1955 Outstanding Film Award.