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Alma Rubens

From Wikipedia Alma Rubens (February 19, 1897 – January 22, 1931) was an American film actress and stage performer. Rubens began her career in the mid 1910s. She quickly rose to stardom in 1916 after appearing opposite Douglas Fairbanks in The Half Breed. For the remainder of the decade, she appeared in supporting roles in comedies and drama. In the 1920s. Her first stage opportunity came when a chorus girl in a musical comedy theater troupe became ill. Rubens was chosen to take her place and joined the troupe as a regular performer. There she met Franklyn Farnum who was also a member. He later convinced Rubens to leave the troupe and try her hand at film acting. Her breakthrough performance was in 1916 in the movie Reggie Mixes In. She made six more films in that same year. In 1917 she starred in The Firefly of Tough Luck, which was a big success. She gained fame when she became Douglas Fairbanks's leading lady in The Half Breed (1916), and supported Fairbanks and Bessie Love in the cocaine comedy The Mystery of the Leaping Fish later that same year. In 1918, Alma announced that she was changing the spelling of her last name of Rueben to "Rubens" because it caused too much confusion in the movie industry and in publications. She later told Photoplay magazine, "As a matter of fact my name is not the same [spelling] as the painter's. It's either Reubens or Ruebens-I forget which. I never could spell it. Couldn't remember where the 'e' came. So I let it go Rubens." In 1920, she completed The World and His Wife, opposite Montague Love which further solidified her popularity. In 1924, she starred in The Price She Paid and Cytherea. Rubens developed a drug addiction which eventually ended her career. She died of pneumonia shortly after being arrested on narcotics charge in January 1931. A funeral service was held on January 24 at the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Her body was then shipped to Fresno where a second service was held at the Christian Science Church on January 26. She was interred in Ararat Massis Armenian Cemetery in Fresno. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Alma Rubens has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6409 Hollywood Blvd.


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Born:
Feb 19, 1897 In San Francisco, California, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
31
First Appeared:
In the movie The Gangsters and the Girl 1914-08-07
Latest Project:
Movie Show Boat 1929-07-27
Known For
Poster of The Cold Deck
Poster of Reggie Mixes In
Filmography
Movie She Goes to War Rosie 1929-06-07
Movie Show Boat Julie Dozier 1929-07-27
Movie The Masks of the Devil Countess Zellner 1928-11-17
Movie Marriage License? Wanda Heriot 1926-09-05
Movie Siberia Sonia Vronsky 1926-03-28
Movie The Dancers Maxine 1925-01-04
Movie Fine Clothes Paula 1925-08-09
Movie East Lynne Lady Isabel 1925-11-23
Movie The Winding Stair Marguerite 1925-10-25
Movie Cytherea Savina Grove 1924-05-04
Movie The Rejected Woman Diane Du Prez 1924-05-04
Movie Enemies of Women The Duchess de Lille 1923-04-15
Movie Under the Red Robe Renee de Cocheforet 1923-11-12
Movie Find the Woman Sophie Carey 1922-04-02
Movie The Valley of Silent Men 1922-09-10
Movie Humoresque Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg) 1920-05-29
Movie Diane of the Green Van Diane Westfall 1919-02-09
Movie The Ghost Flower 1918-08-18
Movie Truthful Tulliver Grace Burton 1917-01-07
Movie A Woman's Awakening Cousin Kate (as Alma Rueben) 1917-03-24
Movie An Old Fashioned Young Man 1917-04-14
Movie The Cold Deck Coralie 1917-10-31
Movie The Gown Of Destiny 1917-12-30
Movie The Mystery of the Leaping Fish Wealthy Gent's Female Confederate 1916-06-11
Movie Reggie Mixes In Lemona Reighley 1916-06-10
Movie The Half-Breed Teresa 1916-07-30
Movie The Americano Juana de Castalar 1916-12-23
Movie Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited) 1916-09-04
Movie The Children Pay Editha, the Girls' Stepmother 1916-11-26
Movie The Birth of a Nation Belle of 1861 1915-02-08
Movie The Gangsters and the Girl 1914-08-07