Alma Rubens

Known for ActingBorn 1897-02-17Died 1931-01-22San Francisco, California, USA

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.Read more

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Marriage License?

The Winding Stair

Restless Souls

Master of His Home

The Gangsters and the Girl

The Gilded Butterfly

Is Love Everything?

Gerald Cranston's Lady

Week End Husbands

Find the Woman

The World and His Wife

Diane of the Green Van

The Gown Of Destiny

The Masks of the Devil

The Heart of Salome

Fine Clothes

She Wolves

A Woman's Faith

Cytherea

A Man's Country

The Dancers

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

East Lynne

A Woman's Awakening

The Regenerates

Show Boat

The Half-Breed

The Rejected Woman

Enemies of Women

She Goes to War

The Valley of Silent Men

Under the Red Robe

The Birth of a Nation

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

Humoresque

The Americano

Reggie Mixes In

The Price She Paid

Death Scenes

Siberia

The Ghost Flower

Madame Sphinx

The Answer

The Cold Deck

An Old Fashioned Young Man

Truthful Tulliver

The Firefly of Tough Luck

The Children Pay