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. 龔秋霞
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.
在上海紅顏 沉香里，龔秋霞獨以“梅花”驚艷上海灘。她十四歲加入“梅花歌舞團”，與張仙琳等因歌喉動人舞姿優美而被喻為“梅花五虎將”。舊上海的輿論界曾這樣贊揚過 她：龔秋霞的歌則最宜于清晨聽，因為她的歌充滿著青春朝氣，抑揚頓挫，甜潤婉轉……。此絕妙之喻讓現在的歌迷身有同感。
龔秋霞于一 九三七年主演的電影《古塔奇案》中的插曲《秋水伊人》是首膾炙人口的不朽老歌。在影片中，由龔秋霞扮演的鳳珍，每晚臨睡前望著女兒小珍，百感交集，以她那 高亢哀傷的優柔嗓音唱著那曲凄婉哀怨的《秋水伊人》，讓人動情。“望穿秋水，不見伊人的倩影，更殘漏盡，孤雁兩三聲……”此曲教人回味不已！
影片公映后龔秋霞出色的表演及演唱贏得了廣大觀眾的喜愛，由此一炮而紅，插曲《秋水伊人》及《思母》更風靡了全中國。
龔秋霞留給觀眾印象最深刻的除了歌曲動聽，唱得好外，還有她那深厚的藝術修養與嫻熟的演技。在她漫長的三十二年演藝生涯中，龔秋霞曾拍過百余部電影，灌唱過逾百首歌曲，就如同她梅花般的特質，內斂而沉厚。
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。
被譽為“東方維納斯”的秦怡，正如評劇表演藝術家新鳳霞所說：“因為她的性格和品質的美，她才能塑造那么多美麗的人物，包括偉大的母親。”正是基于這種內心深處的美，秦怡成為上海紅顏沉香里面最厚重、最醇香的一抹。
如果說舊上海給了大多活躍于此的女星無限風情以外，還有些許風月的遺憾，那么秦怡則是個另類，出身上海大封建家庭的秦怡，延續了舊上海諸多紅顏的知性、風情和靈性，但對風塵和風月則全把地拋棄，這或許就是秦怡進步所在。
進步的秦怡 早在抗戰時期，與白楊，舒繡文，張瑞芳，一起被稱為抗戰大后方的重慶影劇舞臺上的“四大名旦”。建國后，秦怡曾在多部影片中扮演重要角色。如《女籃五 號》、《青春之歌》等。1983年由她主演的電視連續劇《上海屋檐下》，再度向世人展示了她那不同凡響的表演技巧。
醇香的秦怡有著美麗質樸的內心支撐，但這亦無法阻擋其命運的多舛：在經歷了初次的婚姻失敗后，1947年，秦怡在25歲時與20世紀三十年代著名的“影帝”金焰結為夫婦，并成為備受人們關注的“銀壇雙翼”。但好景不長，夫妻間漸漸發生了情感錯位。金焰去世后，秦怡幾十年如一日悉心照顧自己的兒子，嘗盡生活艱辛。但在經過命運的歷練后，秦怡，這位“東方的維納斯”卻日益凝聚成一段讓人景仰的沉香，并一直延續到了今天。
