Patience Cooper
Patience Cooper (* around 1905 ; † unknown) was an Indian film actress from the 1920s to 1940s and one of the first female Indian film stars.
Life
Patience Cooper is of Anglo-Indian descent and was probably born in Calcutta . She began as a dancer in Bandmann's Musical Comedy and was then employed by the Bengali society Madan Theaters of the early Indian film and theater mogul Jamshedji Framji Madan . In her first film Nala Damayanti , directed by the Italian Eugenio de Liguoro , she played the leading role of Damayanti . Her light skin tone and her sharp facial contours made the illumination of her face technically easier than with most pure Indians and a copy of the "Hollywood look" possible. She appeared frequently in films by Jyotish Bannerjee , but also under Sisir Bhaduri , JJ Madan and Priyanath Ganguly . Her most frequent film partners were Durgadas Bannerjee and Tulsi Bannerjee . In 1923 Cooper played two sisters in Patni Pratap - the first double role in an Indian film - and in 1925 Mother and Daughter in Kashimiri Sundari . Her most famous film of the 1930s was Zehari Saap (1933) by JJ Madan.
Cooper appeared in films until 1944; their later whereabouts are unclear.
Filmography (selection)
- 1920: Nala Damayanti
- 1921: Mohini
- 1921: Dhruva Charitra
- 1922: Pati Bhakti
- 1922: Kamale Kamini
- 1923: Noorjehan
- 1923: Patni Pratap
- 1925: Kashmiri Sundari
- 1927: Durgesh Nandini
- 1929: Kapal Kundala
- 1933: Zehari Saap
Web links
- Patience Cooper in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Patience Cooper biography at upperstall.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patience Cooper at indiaheritage.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooper, Patience |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1905 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |