Alma Rubens

1897-02-17 San Francisco, California, USA

Biografia

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.

Películas

	Show Boat	Julie Dozier	1929-07-27
	She Goes to War	Rosie	1929-06-07
	The Masks of the Devil	Countess Zellner	1928-11-17
	The Heart of Salome	Helene	1927-05-08
	Marriage License?	Wanda Heriot	1926-09-05
	Siberia	Sonia Vronsky	1926-03-28
	The Gilded Butterfly		1926-01-03
	East Lynne	Lady Isabel	1925-11-23
	The Dancers	Maxine	1925-01-04
	Fine Clothes	Paula	1925-08-09
	The Winding Stair	Marguerite	1925-10-25
	Is Love Everything?	Virginia Carter	1924-11-30
	Cytherea	Savina Grove	1924-05-04
	The Rejected Woman	Diane Du Prez	1924-05-04
	Enemies of Women	The Duchess de Lille	1923-04-15
	Under the Red Robe	Renee de Cocheforet	1923-11-12
	The Valley of Silent Men		1922-09-10
	Find the Woman	Sophie Carey	1922-04-02
	The World and His Wife		1920-07-18
	Humoresque	Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg)	1920-05-29
	Diane of the Green Van	Diane Westfall	1919-02-09
	A Man's Country	Kate Carewe	1919-07-13
	The Ghost Flower		1918-08-18
	An Old Fashioned Young Man		1917-04-14
	The Cold Deck	Coralie	1917-10-31
	Truthful Tulliver	Grace Burton	1917-01-07
	The Gown Of Destiny		1917-12-30
	A Woman's Awakening	Cousin Kate (as Alma Rueben)	1917-03-24
	Master of His Home		1917-08-12
	The Mystery of the Leaping Fish	Wealthy Gent's Female Confederate	1916-06-11
	The Half-Breed	Teresa	1916-07-30
	The Americano	Juana de Castalar	1916-12-23
	The Children Pay	Editha, the Girls' Stepmother	1916-11-26
	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)	1916-09-04
	Reggie Mixes In	Lemona Reighley	1916-06-10
	The Birth of a Nation	Belle of 1861	1915-02-08
	The Gangsters and the Girl		1914-08-07