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	A major aspect of Cooper's star image was the successful achievement of the 'Hollywood look' in spite of different light and technical conditions. Her distinctively Anglo-Indian features, like dark eyes, sharp features, ebony hair and light skin tone, allowed technicians to experiment with the imported technique of eye-level lighting and achieve an appearance similar to [[Hollywood]] stars of the silent era.		A major aspect of Cooper's star image was the successful achievement of the 'Hollywood look' in spite of different light and technical conditions. Her distinctively Anglo-Indian features, like dark eyes, sharp features, ebony hair and light skin tone, allowed technicians to experiment with the imported technique of eye-level lighting and achieve an appearance similar to [[Hollywood]] stars of the silent era.

	The low number of women, especially [[Hindus]], in the film industry during the 1920s (due to conservative attitudes) meant [[Anglo-Indian]] actresses like Cooper, were in demand. Her appearance in a string of successful films has led her to ~~being~~ called the first ever female Indian film star.		The low number of women, especially [[Hindus]], in the film industry during the 1920s (due to conservative attitudes) meant [[Anglo-Indian]] actresses like Cooper, were in demand. Her appearance in a string of successful films has led her to be called the first-ever female Indian film star.

	==Later life==		==Later life==
	It is generally supposed Cooper married [[Mirza Ahmad Ispahani]] Saheb (MAH Ispahani), a well-known Indian businessman. In 1947, they migrated to [[Pakistan]].<ref>[http://www.epw.org.in/epw/uploads/articles/2016.pdf Article from Economic & Political Weekly]~~{{dead link\|date=January 2018 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}~~</ref> Actually she was married to MAH Ispahani at the age of 21 and divorced soon after. She then married [[Gul Hamid]] Khan, one of the first early silent movie actors. He died six years later from Hodgkin's Disease<!-- Gul Hamid's page says Hodgkin's Disease. Which is it? -->. She remained friends with MAH Ispahani till the end of her life. Cooper changed her name to Sabra Begum and lived the last of her days with her two adopted daughters Zeenat and Haleema in Karachi, Pakistan. Her foster daughter Syeda Nafees Rizvi lives in Houston, Texas, USA{{citation needed\|date=July 2014}}. She fostered and/or adopted 17 children during her lifetime. Cooper died in 1983.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/slideshows/20s/20-3.htm\|title=Bollywood Divas\|publisher=www.hindustantimes.com\|accessdate=2009-02-16\|url-status=dead\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509090042/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/slideshows/20s/20-3.htm\|archivedate=9 May 2008\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>		It is generally supposed Cooper married [[Mirza Ahmad Ispahani]] Saheb (MAH Ispahani), a well-known Indian businessman. In 1947, they migrated to [[Pakistan]].<ref>[http://www.epw.org.in/epw/uploads/articles/2016.pdf Article from Economic & Political Weekly]</ref> Actually she was married to MAH Ispahani at the age of 21 and divorced soon after. She then married [[Gul Hamid]] Khan, one of the first early silent movie actors. He died six years later from Hodgkin's Disease<!-- Gul Hamid's page says Hodgkin's Disease. Which is it? -->. She remained friends with MAH Ispahani till the end of her life. Cooper changed her name to Sabra Begum and lived the last of her days with her two adopted daughters Zeenat and Haleema in Karachi, Pakistan. Her foster daughter Syeda Nafees Rizvi lives in Houston, Texas, USA{{citation needed\|date=July 2014}}. She fostered and/or adopted 17 children during her lifetime. Cooper died in 1983.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/slideshows/20s/20-3.htm\|title=Bollywood Divas\|publisher=www.hindustantimes.com\|accessdate=2009-02-16\|url-status=dead\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509090042/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/slideshows/20s/20-3.htm\|archivedate=9 May 2008\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

	== Filmography ==		== Filmography ==

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| name = Patience Cooper
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| birth_date = 1905
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = 1983
| death_place = Pakistan
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1920–1946
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'''Patience Cooper''' (1905–1983) was an India born Pakistani [[film]] [[actress]]. An [[Anglo-Indian]]<ref>p 163, Parama Roy, Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, University of California Press, {{ISBN|0-520-20487-5}}</ref> from [[Calcutta]], Cooper had a successful career in both [[silent film|silent]] and [[Sound film|sound]] films. She was one of the early superstars of [[Bollywood]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178292/|title=Patience Cooper|website=www.imdb.com|accessdate=2009-02-16}}</ref> Cooper is credited with the first [[dual role|double roles]] of [[Indian cinema]]—as twin sisters in ''[[Patni Pratap]]'' and as mother and daughter in ''[[Kashmiri Sundari]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaheritage.org/perform/cinema/person/silentstar.htm|title=Personalities of Indian Cinema - Silent screen stars.|publisher=www.indiaheritage.org|accessdate=2009-02-16|last=|first=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019162347/http://www.indiaheritage.org/perform/cinema/person/silentstar.htm|archive-date=19 October 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> even though earlier in 1917, actor [[Anna Salunke]] had played roles of both the male lead character Ram and the female lead character Seeta in the film ''[[Lanka Dahan]]''.<ref name=Salunke>{{cite web |url=http://www.dadasahebphalkeacademy.org.in/100years |title=Dadasaheb Phalke - Father of Indian Cinema |publisher=Dadasaheb Phalke Academy |accessdate=2012-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20121218165926/http://www.dadasahebphalkeacademy.org.in/100years |archivedate=18 December 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Stage career==
Cooper began her career as a dancer in ''Bandmann's Musical Comedy'', a [[Eurasian (mixed ancestry)|Eurasian]] troupe. She later joined [[Jamshedji Framji Madan]]'s ''Corinithian Stage Company'' as an actress.

==Film career==
Cooper first made an impact with ''Nala Damayanti'' (1920). The film starred Keki Adajania as Nala and Cooper as Damayanti. The film was a big budget Madan Theatre production and was directed by [[Eugenio de Liguoro]], known in Italy for his Orientalist spectacles like ''Fascino d'Oro'' (1919). ''Nala Damayanti'' was famous for its special effects at the time — Narada's ascent of Mount Meru to heaven, the transformations of four gods into impersonations of Nala, the transformation of Kali into a serpent among others.

Her next film was ''Vishnu Avtar'', released in 1921. De Liguoro also directed ''Dhruva Chartitra'' (1921), a mythological based on the legend of Dhruva whose quest for eternal knowledge and salvation was rewarded when he became the brightest star in the heavens, the pole star also known as Dhruvatara. The film was made as a bid for an international breakthrough for Madan Theatres and featured many Europeans in the cast along with Cooper who played the female lead, Suniti.

One of Cooper's biggest successes was ''Pati Bhakti'' (1922). Cooper played Leelavati in the film, directed by the great JJ Madan himself, advocating that women should be devoted to their husband. The film is regarded as her greatest film and was also involved in a small controversy as in Madras, the censor demanded that a dance number be removed on the grounds of obscenity.

Cooper also played perhaps the first ever double roles in Hindi films — ''Patni Pratap'' (1923), where she played two sisters and ''Kashmiri Sundari'' (1924), where she played mother and daughter.

Cooper did films right through to the mid-1930s. One of her last major films was ''Zehari Saap'' (1933). The film was a typical Cooper vehicle about a medieval chieftain's revolt against the good Nawab Bakar Malik. The nawab's outlaw son vows revenge and finally all's well that ends well. The dramatic conflict in the film sees the chieftain wanting to marry the princess, whom he had raised as his own daughter.

Cooper acted in over 40 films until she retired in 1944, after performing in her last film, ''Iraada''. Cooper was often cast in the role of a sexually troubled but innocent woman, always at the centre of moral dilemmas, often caused by the men in her lives.

A major aspect of Cooper's star image was the successful achievement of the 'Hollywood look' in spite of different light and technical conditions. Her distinctively Anglo-Indian features, like dark eyes, sharp features, ebony hair and light skin tone, allowed technicians to experiment with the imported technique of eye-level lighting and achieve an appearance similar to [[Hollywood]] stars of the silent era.

The low number of women, especially [[Hindus]], in the film industry during the 1920s (due to conservative attitudes) meant [[Anglo-Indian]] actresses like Cooper, were in demand. Her appearance in a string of successful films has led her to being called the first ever female Indian film star.

==Later life==
It is generally supposed Cooper married [[Mirza Ahmad Ispahani]] Saheb (MAH Ispahani), a well-known Indian businessman. In 1947, they migrated to [[Pakistan]].<ref>[http://www.epw.org.in/epw/uploads/articles/2016.pdf Article from Economic & Political Weekly]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Actually she was married to MAH Ispahani at the age of 21 and divorced soon after. She then married [[Gul Hamid]] Khan, one of the first early silent movie actors. He died six years later from Hodgkin's Disease. She remained friends with MAH Ispahani till the end of her life. Cooper changed her name to Sabra Begum and lived the last of her days with her two adopted daughters Zeenat and Haleema in Karachi, Pakistan. Her foster daughter Syeda Nafees Rizvi lives in Houston, Texas, USA{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}. She fostered and/or adopted 17 children during her lifetime. Cooper died in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/slideshows/20s/20-3.htm|title=Bollywood Divas|publisher=www.hindustantimes.com|accessdate=2009-02-16|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509090042/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/slideshows/20s/20-3.htm|archivedate=9 May 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year !! Film !! Director!! Notes
|-
| 1920||[[Nala Damayanti]] ||[[Eugenio de Liguoro]] ||
|-
|rowspan="6"| 1921||[[Bishu Abatar]] ||Jyotish Bandyopadhyay ||
|-
| [[Dhruba Charitra]] ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| [[Nal Damayanti]] ||Jyotish Bandyopadhyay ||
|-
| [[Dhruva Charitra]] ||Eugenio De Liguoro ||
|-
| [[Behula (film)|Behula]] ||C. Legrand ||
|-
| [[Vishnu Avatar]] ||C. Legrand ||
|-
|rowspan="13"| 1922||Sati ||||
|-
| [[Ratnavali (film)|Ratnavali]] ||[[Jyotish Bannerji]] ||
|-
| [[Pati Bhakti]] ||[[J. J. Madan]] ||
|-
| [[Kamale Kamini]] ||[[Sisir Kumar Bhaduri]] ||
|-
|[[Ramayan (1922 film 1)|Ramayan]] ||[[Jyotish Bandyopadhyay]] ||Serial
|-
| [[Ramayan (1922 film 2)|Ramayan]] ||Eugenio De Liguoro ||Serial
|-
|[[Nartaki Tara]] ||Jyotish Bandyopadhyay ||
|-
| [[Ratnavali (1922 film)|Ratnavali]] ||C. Legrand ||
|-
| [[Raja Bhoj (film)|Raja Bhoj]] ||||
|-
|[[Mohini (1922 film)|Mohini]] ||Sisir Kumar Bhaduri ||
|-
| |[[Bhagirathi Ganga]] || ||
|-
| [[Rajkumari Budur]] ||[[J. J. Madan]] ||
|-
| [[Laila Majnu (1922 film)|Laila Majnu]] ||[[J. J. Madan]] ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1923||[[Matri Sneha]] ||[[Jyotish Bannerji]] ||
|-
|[[Noorjehan (1923 film)|Noorjehan]] ||[[J. J. Madan]] ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1924||[[Patni Pratap]] ||J. J. Madan ||Serial
|-
| [[Turki Hoor]] ||[[J. J. Madan]] ||
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1925||[[Sati Lakshmi]] ||[[Jyotish Bannerji]] ||
|-
| [[Adoorat Chheley]] ||[[J. J. Madan]] ||
|-
| [[Sansar Chakra]] ||||
|-
| [[Kashmiri Sundari]] || ||
|-
| 1926||Prafulla ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1926||Joydev ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1926||Dharmapatni ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1927||Jana ||[[Priyanath Ganguly]] ||
|-
| 1927||Krishnakanter Will ||Priyanath Ganguly ||
|-
| 1927||Durgesh Nandini ||Priyanath Ganguly ||
|-
| 1927||Chandidas ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1928||Aankh Ka Nasha ||||
|-
| 1928||Hoor-E-Arab ||Ratansha Sinore ||
|-
| 1928||Bhranti ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1929||Giribala ||[[Modhu Bose]] ||
|-
| 1929||Kapal Kundala ||Priyanath Ganguly ||
|-
| 1930||Bharat Ramani ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1930||Vaman Avatar || ||
|-
| 1930||Rajsingha ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1930||Kal Parinaya ||Priyanath Ganguly ||
|-
| 1930||Ganesh Janma ||Jal Ariah ||
|-
| 1931||Bibaha Bibhrat ||Jyotish Bannerji ||
|-
| 1931||Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp ||Jal Ariah ||
|-
| 1931||Samaj Ka Shikar || ||
|-
| 1931||Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra ||J. J. Madan ||
|-
| 1931||Bharati Balak ||[[Aga Hashr Kashmiri]] ||
|-
| 1932||Pati Bhakti ||||
|-
| 1932||Chatra Bakavali ||J. J. Madan ||Fantasy
|-
| 1932||Bilwamangal ||Fram Madan ||
|-
| 1932||Alibaba And Forty Thieves ||J. J. Madan ||
|-
| 1932||Educated Wife || ||
|-
| 1932||Hathili Dulhan ||J. J. Madan ||
|-
| 1933||Madhur Murali || ||
|-
| 1933||Naqli Doctor ||J. J. Madan ||
|-
| 1933||Zehari Saap ||J. J. Madan ||
|-
| 1934||Kismet Ka Shikar || ||
|-
| 1934||Bhakta-Ke-Bhagwan ||V. M. Gunjal ||
|-
| 1934||Garib Ki Duniya ||Sorabji Kerawala ||
|-
| 1934||Anokha Prem ||F. R. Irani ||
|-
| 1934||Kanya Vikraya ||Mohammad Hussain ||
|-
| 1934||Sakhi Lutera ||Sorabji Kerawala ||
|-
| 1935||Dil Ki Pyaas ||J. J. Madan ||
|-
| 1935||Asmat Ka Moti ||Fram Sethna ||
|-
| 1935||Khudadad || ||
|-
| 1935||Prem Ki Ragini ||||
|-
| 1935||Sulagto Sansar ||[[G. R. Sethi]] ||
|-
| 1935||Mera Pyara ||[[Ezra Mir]] ||
|-
| 1936||Noor-E-Wahadat ||G. R. Sethi ||
|-
| 1936||[[Baghi Sipahi]] ||[[A.R. Kardar]] ||
|-
| 1936||Khyber Pass ||Gul Hamid ||
|-
| 1937||Fakhr-E-Islam ||[[Nanubhai Vakil]] ||
|-
| 1943||[[Rani (1943 film)|Rani]] ||[[P. C. Barua]] ||
|-
| 1944||Chandar Kalanka ||[[Pramathesh Chandra Barua]] ||
|-
| 1944||Iraada ||S. Shamsuddin ||
|-
| 1946||Khan Saheb ||Prem Sethna ||
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Patience Cooper}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0178292|name=Patience Cooper}}

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