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Devika Rani Chaudhuri, known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi cinema throughout the 1930s and 1940s. She was born on March 30, 1908, and died on March 9, 1994. Devika Rani, often regarded as "First Lady of Indian Cinema", had a ten-year cinematic career. Devika Rani, who was born into an affluent, anglicised Indian family, was sent to boarding school in England at the age of nine and grew up there. In 1928, she met and married Himanshu Rai, an Indian film producer. Rai's experimental silent film A Throw of Dice required her assistance with costume design and art direction (1929).
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