Ruby Myers
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Sulochana (Pune, Maharashtra, 1907 - Mumbai, 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.
[edit] Film Career
Before becoming a film star, she worked as a telephone operator.
Her films include Cinema Queen (1926) Typist Girl (1926); Balidaan (1927); Wild Cat of Bombay, in which she played eight different characters, which was remade as Bambai Ki Billi (1936); Madhuri (1928), which was rereleased with sound in 1932; Anarkali (1928), remade in 1945; Indira BA (1929); Heer Ranjah (1929); and many others, such as Baaz (1953).
Sulochana established her own film studio, Rubi Pics, in the mid-1930s. Ismail Merchant paid homage to her in Mahatma and the Bad Boy (1974).
