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person_profile-Alma Rubens

Alma Rubens Died at age: 33

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Alma Rubens

Date of Birth:

Feb 17, 1897

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 22, 1931

Biography of

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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Alma Rubens

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Filmography of

Alma Rubens

Found 33 Movies in total

Show Boat

Julie Dozier ( Actor )

... 1929

She Goes to War

Rosie ( Actor )

... 1929

The Masks of the Devil

Countess Zellner ( Actor )

... 1928

The Heart of Salome

Helene ( Actor )

... 1927

Marriage License?

Wanda Heriot ( Actor )

... 1926

Siberia

Sonia Vronsky ( Actor )

... 1926

East Lynne

Lady Isabel ( Actor )

... 1925

The Winding Stair

Marguerite ( Actor )

... 1925

Fine Clothes

Paula ( Actor )

... 1925

The Dancers

Maxine ( Actor )

... 1925

Is Love Everything?

Virginia Carter ( Actor )

... 1924

The Price She Paid

Mildred Gower ( Actor )

... 1924

Cytherea

Savina Grove ( Actor )

... 1924

The Rejected Woman

Diane Du Prez ( Actor )

... 1924

Under the Red Robe

Renee de Cocheforet ( Actor )

... 1923

Enemies of Women

The Duchess de Lille ( Actor )

... 1923

... 1922

Find the Woman

Sophie Carey ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1920

Humoresque

Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg) ( Actor )

... 1920

A Man's Country

Kate Carewe ( Actor )

... 1919

... 1918

... 1917

The Cold Deck

Coralie ( Actor )

... 1917

... 1917

A Woman's Awakening

Cousin Kate (as Alma Rueben) ( Actor )

... 1917

Truthful Tulliver

Grace Burton ( Actor )

... 1917

The Americano

Juana de Castalar ( Actor )

... 1916

The Children Pay

Editha, the Girls' Stepmother ( Actor )

... 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1916

The Half-Breed

Teresa ( Actor )

... 1916

Reggie Mixes In

Lemona Reighley ( Actor )

... 1916

The Birth of a Nation

Belle of 1861 ( Actor )

... 1915