Top 10 women of old Shanghai
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Shangguan Yunzhu
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Shangguan Yunzhu is famous for her films such as the Crow and the Sparrow and Spring River Flows East. [Photo by Xinhua] |
Shangguan Yunzhu was born in 1920 in Jiangsu Province. In 1937, she and her family were forced to leave for Shanghai to escape from the chaos caused by war. There, she was admitted to a drama school. Shangguan made her first movie in the 1940s and began to distinguish herself in film circles. Many of her movies in the late 1940s became classics in China's movie history. She was famous for her films such as the Crow and the Sparrow and Spring River Flows East. Shangguan was harassed to death during the Cultural Revolution in 1968.
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