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Alma Rubens

Alma Rubens

Actress

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.

Born: February 17, 1897 in San Francisco, California, USA

Died: January 22, 1931 (Age 33)

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Alma Rubens  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
ActressSophie Carey1922
Movie
7.3
ActressRenee de Cocheforet1923
Movie
6.1
Actress1917
Movie
7.7
ActressLady Isabel1925
Movie
5.9
ActressJulie Dozier1929
Movie
6.2
ActressCoralie1917
Movie
7.3
ActressCountess Zellner1928
Movie
6.1
ActressJuana de Castalar1916
Movie
6.7
Actress1922
Movie
ActressWanda Heriot1926
Movie
7.5
ActressGirl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)1916
Movie
7
ActressEditha, the Girls' Stepmother1916
Movie
6.6
ActressDiane Du Prez1924
Movie
6.5
ActressRosie1929
Movie
ActressGrace Burton1917
Movie
5.2
ActressLemona Reighley1916
Movie
5.4
Actress1917
Movie
ActressCousin Kate (as Alma Rueben)1917
Movie
5.9
ActressBelle of 18611915
Movie
5
ActressThe Duchess de Lille1923
Movie
Actress1918
Movie
ActressHelene1927
Movie
6.5
ActressTeresa1916
Movie
6.7
ActressMaxine1925
Movie
6
ActressGina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg)1920
Movie
ActressPaula1925
Movie
8.3
ActressSavina Grove1924
Movie
ActressDiane Westfall1919
Movie
ActressTeodora1920
Movie
ActressMarguerite1925
Movie
ActressKate Carewe1919
Movie
ActressSonia Vronsky1926
Movie
ActressVirginia Carter1924
Movie
ActressMillicent Drake1917
Movie
ActressLinda Haverhill1926
Short Film
6.5
ActressWealthy Gent's Female Confederate1916
Short Film
6.2
Actress1914
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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