Bai Yang (actress)

Bai Yang was a Chinese film and drama actress mainly active from the 1930s to the 1950s, during which she was one of the countrys most popular movie stars. She was considered the foremost of Chinas Four Great Drama Actresses, ahead of Qin Yi, Shu Xiuwen, and Zhang Ruifang. Her most famous films include Crossroads , The Spring River Flows East , Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon , and New Years Sacrifice .

Bai Yang was born onMarch 1920 to an affluent family in Beijing, the youngest of four children. Her original name was Yang Chengfang, and the novelist Yang Mo was her older sister. Her parents both died when she was 11, and she acted in a supporting role in Hou Yaos silent film Sad Song from an Old Palace , made by the Lianhua Film Company. She then worked as a drama actress for a few years, acting in plays by Tian Han and Hong Shen, as well as foreign playwrights such as Oscar Wilde and Eugene ONeill.

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