Xie Tian is a famous film artist, who can choreograph and direct and act, and is a rare "all-rounder" in the Chinese film industry. In his artistic career of more than half a century, he has shaped many screen images. Not only that, Xie Tian has a cheerful personality and makes friends from all over the world.
The old woman who is intimate with Xie Tian in the photo is Wu Yin, a famous film actor in China in the last century, who is famous for playing an old woman.
Wu Yin Zhao Dan played a couple in "The Crow and the Sparrow"
Wu Yin was born in 1909 five years older than Xie Tian, and both were born in Tianjin.
In Shanghai in 1936, Ouyang Yuqian choreographed and directed a love ethics film "Qingming Season" with big stars such as Zhao Dan, Wu Yin and Shu Xiuwen, and Xie Tian, who was still called Xie Jun at the time, also participated in the performance of this film and met Wu Yin.
Stills of Wu Yin, Zhao Dan and Xie Tian in "Qingming Season"
Wu Yin paid more attention to Xie Tian, a small fellow in Tianjin, and they began a friendship for decades. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xie Tian and Wu Yin successively came to Chongqing to perform the famous choreographer Shen Fu's trilogy "Twenty-Four Hours of Chongqing", "Rhapsody of Little People" and "Jinyu Mantang" on the drama stage, especially in "Jinyu Mantang", Wu Yin played the mother-in-law, Bai Yang played the mother, and Xie Tian played the son. In the turbulent and displaced performance life, we share weal and woe, and deepen our friendship with each other.
In "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward", Wu Yin and Poplar
Xie Tian and Wu Yin not only had a pleasant cooperation on the screen and in dramas, they also performed the Peking Opera "Famen Temple" together. It was 1946, and China's first drama festival opened in Chongqing, the capital of China. At the grand celebration, literary and artistic celebrities jointly performed the Peking opera "Famen Temple", in which Xie Tian played Jia Gui and Wu Yin played Song Qiao prostitute, which was a sensation and spread as a good story.
Boss Lin in Xie Tian's masterpiece "Lin Family Shop"
After liberation, Xie Tian went to the Beijing Film Studio, and Wu Yin stayed at the Shanghai Film Studio, although not in the same city, but they missed each other. During the Cultural Revolution, Wu Yin was persecuted and disabled in both legs.
At the end of the ten years of catastrophe, the spring of literature and art has arrived, and Xie Tian has begun to get busy again. Successively acted in the film "Sweet Cause", "Tea House" and other films. Every time Xie Tian went to Shanghai for business, no matter how busy he was, he had to squeeze out time to see his elder sister Wu Yin. Wu Yin was also very happy to see her little brother Xie Tian, kissed and hugged, and asked for warmth. The two left this very precious photo.