The old Shanghai was glamorous from the 1920s to 1940s. Although most of those well-known ladies in this period have passed away, they are still remembered for their charm and uniqueness。
10. 龚秋霞
Gong Qiuxia, born in 1918 in Jiangsu Province, was a famous actress and singer who became popular after starring in "Strange Case in an Ancient Pagoda" (1937) and singing a song in the film. By the 1940s, she had become one of the seven great singing stars in China. Known for her acting skills, she was in more than one hundred films in her life. She died of a heart attack in Hong Kong in 2004.
在上海红颜 沉香里，龚秋霞独以“梅花”惊艳上海滩。她十四岁加入“梅花歌舞团”，与张仙琳等因歌喉动人舞姿优美而被喻为“梅花五虎将”。旧上海的舆论界曾这样赞扬过 她：龚秋霞的歌则最宜于清晨听，因为她的歌充满着青春朝气，抑扬顿挫，甜润婉转……。此绝妙之喻让现在的歌迷身有同感。
龚秋霞于一 九三七年主演的电影《古塔奇案》中的插曲《秋水伊人》是首脍炙人口的不朽老歌。在影片中，由龚秋霞扮演的凤珍，每晚临睡前望着女儿小珍，百感交集，以她那 高亢哀伤的优柔嗓音唱着那曲凄婉哀怨的《秋水伊人》，让人动情。“望穿秋水，不见伊人的倩影，更残漏尽，孤雁两三声……”此曲教人回味不已！
影片公映后龚秋霞出色的表演及演唱赢得了广大观众的喜爱，由此一炮而红，插曲《秋水伊人》及《思母》更风靡了全中国。
龚秋霞留给观众印象最深刻的除了歌曲动听，唱得好外，还有她那深厚的艺术修养与娴熟的演技。在她漫长的三十二年演艺生涯中，龚秋霞曾拍过百余部电影，灌唱过逾百首歌曲，就如同她梅花般的特质，内敛而沉厚。
秦怡9.秦怡
Qin Yi was born into a feudal family in 1922 in Shanghai. She left Shanghai in 1938 for Chongqing, where she joined Zhongwan Troupe and began her career as an actress in the midst of civil war. Qin played revolutionary characters, calling upon young people to rise up against foreign invasion. She won fame rapidly and in the 1940s Qin was honored as one of the Top Four Actresses in China. In an acting career that spanned more than 60 years, Qin made a deep impression on audiences at home and abroad by starring in 35 movies, more than 30 stage operas and eight TV series. She is now the chairman of the board of the Shanghai Film and Television Company。
被誉为“东方维纳斯”的秦怡，正如评剧表演艺术家新凤霞所说：“因为她的性格和品质的美，她才能塑造那么多美丽的人物，包括伟大的母亲。”正是基于这种内心深处的美，秦怡成为上海红颜沉香里面最厚重、最醇香的一抹。
如果说旧上海给了大多活跃于此的女星无限风情以外，还有些许风月的遗憾，那么秦怡则是个另类，出身上海大封建家庭的秦怡，延续了旧上海诸多红颜的知性、风情和灵性，但对风尘和风月则全把地抛弃，这或许就是秦怡进步所在。
进步的秦怡 早在抗战时期，与白杨，舒绣文，张瑞芳，一起被称为抗战大后方的重庆影剧舞台上的“四大名旦”。建国后，秦怡曾在多部影片中扮演重要角色。如《女篮五 号》、《青春之歌》等。1983年由她主演的电视连续剧《上海屋檐下》，再度向世人展示了她那不同凡响的表演技巧。
醇香的秦怡有着美丽质朴的内心支撑，但这亦无法阻挡其命运的多舛：在经历了初次的婚姻失败后，1947年，秦怡在25岁时与20世纪三十年代著名的“影帝”金焰结为夫妇，并成为备受人们关注的“银坛双翼”。但好景不长，夫妻间渐渐发生了情感错位。金焰去世后，秦怡几十年如一日悉心照顾自己的儿子，尝尽生活艰辛。但在经过命运的历练后，秦怡，这位“东方的维纳斯”却日益凝聚成一段让人景仰的沉香，并一直延续到了今天。
