http://nowdailynews.blogspot.com - A collection of photos featuring 1930s Chinese singer-actress Zhou Xuan fetched some 2.18 million yuan (S$445,000) at an auction in China, and set the record for the highest price ever procured for a photo collection in the country,According to Huachen Auctions, which conducted the sale, the collection of 1,957 photographs originally belonged to Zhou.
It contains some 303 photographs depicting her private life, along with two commemorative photobooks gifted to her by the film studios she had worked with, which are believed to be the only copies ever printed.
Zhou achieved stardom after appearing as a singing girl in the 1937 film “Street Angel” and went on to act in 42 more films before she passed away in a mental asylum in 1957.The life of the actress inspired the Hong Kong drama serials “Song Bird” in 1989 and “Zhou Xuan”, which starred Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung in 2006.
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