| Sulochana (real name Ruby Myers) and Dinshaw Billimoria in the Movie Heer Ranjha - 1929   |
| Actress Sulochana (Real Name Ruby Myers) 1920's Sulochana (1907–1983), (real name Ruby Myers) was an Indian silent film star of Jewish ancestry, although it is unclear whether she descended from an Ashkenazi family, Bene Israeli family, or both. In her heyday she was one of the highest paid actresses of her time, when she was paired with Dinshaw Billimoria in Imperial Studios films. In mid-1930 she opened Rubi Pics, a film production house.She was awarded the 1973 Dada Saheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema for lifetime achievement.   |
| Movie Actress Durga Khote in her Young Age Durga Khote (January 14, 1905− September 22, 1991) was an Indian actress, starting as one of the foremost leading ladies of her times, she remained active in Hindi and Marathi cinema, as well as theatre, for over 50 years, starring in around 200 films and numerous theatre productions.   |
| Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru - 1950's   |
| Actress Patience Cooper - 1920's Patience Cooper (1905–1983) was an Indian film actress. An Anglo-Indian from Calcutta (in West Bengal), Cooper had a successful career in both silent and sound films. She was one of the early superstars of Bollywood. Cooper is credited with the first double roles of Indian cinema - as twin sisters in Patni Pratap and as mother and daughter in Kashmiri Sundari.But this is not true as Anna Salunkhe had played first double role in Indian film. She played roles of both Ram and Seeta in film 'Lanka Dahan' (1917).  |
| Portrait of Prithviraj Kapoor - 1929 Prithviraj Kapoor, was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in 1944.   |
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