I find that both in Hollywood and in China, those old movie stars from the 1940s through the 1960s were more beautiful and more graceful than today's so-called "stars." Nowadays in Hollywood, one can hardly name any stars who have the charm, the grace, the beauty and even acting skills of Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Vivian Leigh, Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Brando, Gary Grant... In China, people miss those stars in Shanghai in the 1940s. After 1949, a lot of filmmakers moved from Shanghai to Hong Kong to start the film industry in Hong Kong.Zhu Hong, born in Yunnan in 1941, became a superstar in Hong Kong in the 1960s. She has always been one of my idols. She is considered to have classical Chinese beauty. She played an extremely beautiful ghost in the most scary horror movie in Chinese history (1965)--The Painted Skin. It was shown in theaters repeatedly when I was a child. Although I was almost scared to death, I still went to see it again and again. I simply couldn't stop. Many people died of heart attack in theater when they watched this movie. The copy is now kept at China Film Archive.
