Ruby Myers

Biography

Ruby Myers, known by her stage name Sulochana, was a pioneering Indian actress and producer born in Poona, British India in 1907 to a Baghdadi Jewish family. A prominent figure in early Indian cinema, she became one of the highest paid movie stars of the 1920s under Mohan Bhavnani's direction. Her film production house, Rubi Pics, was established in the mid-1930s. She received the Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 1973 for her lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.