Hu Die (1907-1989) had a career as a film actress from the late 1920s to the 1960s. She had her most brilliant period in the 1930s and the 1940s. Early in the 1930s; she played the leading role in China's first sound film; The Singsong Girl; in which she portrays a kindhearted but somewhat ignorant woman who endures her husband's mistreatment and oppression without the slightest resistance. In The River Flows Rampant; the first film made by left-wing dramatists; she plays the role of Xiujuan; a woman who is filled with the spirit of resistance and has a rich inner world in her heart.

Her performance won favorable comments. Hu Die played a full spectrum of characters; including a maidservant; a loving mother; a woman school teacher; an actress; a prostitute; a dancing girl; the daughter of a rich family; a laboring woman; and a factory worker. She had attractive; unconventional qualities; and her performances were gentle; honest; refined and sweet. Audiences call her a film queen. Hu Die lived both in the silent and sound film periods; and she was one of the most popular Chinese film actors and actresses in the 1930s and the 1940s. Pictures From History C. H. Wong Studio