'''Seeta Devi  (b. 1912)'''


Stage name of actress Renee Smith. Became a star as the exotic Oriental in [[Himansu Rai]]’s [[Prem Sanyas (1926)|Prem Sanyas]]. Played the ‘other woman’ in [[Shiraz]] and the heroine in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prapancha_Pash|Prapancha Pash]]. Thereafter worked with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyanath_Ganguly|Priyanath Ganguly]] and [[Madan Theatres]] films. Also worked with [[Niranjan Pal]] and [[Naval Gandhi]]. The silent cinema scholar Virchand Dharamsey suggests that both Renee Smith and her sister Percy Smith may have appeared as ‘Seeta Devi’.


'''FILMOGRAPHY:''' 1925: Prem Sanyas; 1926: Krishnakanter Will; 1927: Durgesh Nandini; 1928: Sarala; Shiraz; The Loves of a Mughal Prince; 1929: Kapal Kundala; Prapancha Pash; 1930: Naseeb Ni Balihari; Kal Parinaya; Bharat Ramani; 1931: Kashmir Nu Gulab (all St); 1932: Shikari.