Hong Shen

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Hong Shen

Hung Sam
Born: December 31st, 1894 (China) - Died: August 29th, 1955


Filmography *(1926-1949)*

	Actor (1 film)
		A Bachelor Secretary (1927) ... Sung Li Chuen

	Director (5 films)
		He Wants to Have a Baby (1926)
		A Bachelor Secretary (1927)
		The Young Mistress' Fan (1928)
		Love Story on Classmates (1928)
		Love and Tears of Tenant (1933)

	Writer (18 films)
		A Bachelor Secretary (1927)
		The Young Mistress' Fan (1928)
		Love Story on Classmates (1928)
		A Beauty of Perfumed Grass (1933)
		Oppression (1933)
		A Bible for Girls (1934)
		Businessmen in a War (1935)
		Down-Trodden Peach Blossom (1935)
		Rights of Women (1936)
		Old and New Shanghai (1936)
		Flower and Grass (1936)
		Gold-Plated City (1937)
		Four Daughters (1937)
		Dream Universe (1937)
		New Year's Coin (1937)
		Flower of Society (1937)
		The Dawning (1948)
		The Ways of Three Sisters (1949)

	Co-Director (1 film)
		The Weak, Your Name Is Woman (1948)


Biography

	Born in Jiangsu Province, graduated in 1916 in the Qinghua University, and later moved to Harvard University to learn Literature. In 1922 went back to work as teacher, but very soon he begins to pay attention to motion pictures and in 1924 he wrote his first film script. This was the beginning of his prolific career as writer, and later director. Hong also wrote several books about the filmaking. He died in 1955.