Film Career
She was born Isabel Rosario Cooper to a Scottish father and Chinese-Filipina mother. She was nicknamed "Dimples". As a teenager she traveled Southeast Asia as a torch singer-entertainer. She broke into films by 1925. Her most prominent films were Miracles of Love (1925) and Ang Tatlong Hambog (1926). In the latter film, Cooper made Filipino film history with Luis Tuason when they performed the very first kissing scene in Philippine film history. Cooper made her last movie, Ikaw Pala, in 1941 under LVN Pictures.
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