Chen Yan-yan
Birthday: 1915-02-24
Place of Birth: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Biography: Chen Yanyan (Chinese: 陳燕燕; Wade–Giles: Ch'en Yen-yen; 12 January 1916 – 7 May 1999), born Chen Jianyan, was a Chinese actress and film producer in the cinema of Republic of China (1912–1949), British Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Movies
The 14 Amazons
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war Ge...
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Four Sisters
Hong Kong adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Macau hospital matron Mrs. Lo has four dau...
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The Merry Wife
Under false pretenses, Zhenzhen marries Mr. Lin, who happens to be her teacher. She wants to still s...
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Heads for Sale
After seemingly being rejected by the man she loves, Hua Pi-Lien attacks him and his family. But the...
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A Spray of Plum Blossoms
Bai Le De and Hu Lun tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of...
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Flower in the Rain
Lily Ho and Ling Yun are star-crossed lovers who suffer untold agonies before finally being united f...
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The Love Eterne
In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents t...
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The Deadly Knives
Plotting to obtain the Yen family's land, dastardly Japanese plutocrat Omura bribes Yen nephew Hsu C...
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Spring Blossoms
Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and what's important to the younger gen...
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My Dream Boat
Chi Yuan and Tang Ke-hsin find an unexpected spark during a Christmas gathering, creating ripples of...
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The Butterfly Chalice
The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan (Chin Feng) who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who...
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Too Late for Love
Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The hap...
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Auntie Lan
The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman m...
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The Blue and the Black 2
War and time change everything. Their love becomes more than reunion, it becomes a reckoning with wh...
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The Blue and the Black
It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occ...
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The West Chamber
A scholar woos the daughter of an important family, while outwitting rebels who try to capture her....
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Valley of the Fangs
Intrigue in the court means that the wife and daughter of framed scholar Sung have to travel to the ...
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Sons of the Good Earth
The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble ...
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The Crimson Palm
Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of h...
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Three Sinners
Based on one particular storyline from The Water Margin, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of...
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The Grand Substitution
With China under control of a weak Emperor, two officials compete to steer the future destiny of the...
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The Young Avenger
After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng u...
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The Three Smiles
The film tells the story of Tang Bohu, a famous scholar who spends most of his time wandering around...
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The Goddess of Mercy
With her elegant classic persona, Li Li-hua was the ideal performer for period aristocratic and impe...
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Lady General Hua Mulan
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army....
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A Ghost
A young woman falls in love with her university classmate but her father is against it. She disappea...
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It Takes a Man to Be Henpecked
A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society which s...
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Center Stage
Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chron...
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The One-Armed Swordsman
A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from ...
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Two Stars in the Milky Way
This is a silent film from China made in 1931. It is about two leads in a film, Yan (Raymond King) a...
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The Big Road
Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army...
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Love and Duty
The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with...
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Vistas of Art
Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class"....
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Symphony of Lianhua
"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmm...
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Song of China
A businessman moves his family from the city to the countryside to open a school....
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Struggling
A Chinese couple in the 1930s struggle to survive. Things get complicated for them when he enlists t...
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Between Tears and Smiles
Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien....
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The Light of Maternal Instinct
Although Hui-Ying is now married to a husband that offers a life of stability and comfort, over ten ...
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The Joy of Spring
The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shao...
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The Lotus Lamp
The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is ra...
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The Legend of the White Snake
Seventeen-year-old Xu Mengjiao hears troubling rumors at his private school about his mother’s myste...
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The Young Tiger
A spoilt rich kid turns up at a fu school to show off, but he gets clobbered by the boastful Little ...
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Mantis Combat
When a once infamous criminal decides to give up his lifestyle and return the many treasures he has ...
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Bitter Sweet
A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later,...
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Spring in the South
To please his dying father, Hong Yu, a college student, is forced to abandon his girlfriend, Little ...
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Suspicion
A war-veteran husband and his wife are slowly consumed with distrust in Xu Changlin’s fascinating hy...
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Chun dao ren jian
Yu is a village boat-rower who loves smiling. On the contrary, serf girl xiao Hong never smiles beca...
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The Long Lane
The film focuses on a mother (Chen Yanyan) burdened by guilt after abandoning her newborn daughter i...
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New and Old Times
A rich businessman's family is in straitened circumstances. He has a son and four daughters, but onl...
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Sing High, Sing Low
Lee Ho Yin is a young musician turned advertising executive who is shy and tongue-tied when it comes...
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The Dream of the Ancient Capital
This film depicting the lives of ordinary people — street peddlers, poor scholars, and young revolut...
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