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Alma Rubens‌

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Female

Birthday

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Alma Rubens

San Francisco, California, USA

Alma Rubens

San Francisco, California, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1897-02-17

Popularity

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Biography

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.

Movie Credits

The Winding Stair

The Winding Stair‌
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calendar 1925

Master of His Home

Master of His Home‌
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calendar 1917

A Man's Country

A Man's Country‌
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calendar 1919

Is Love Everything?

Is Love Everything?‌
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calendar 1924

Siberia

Siberia‌
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calendar 1926

The Gangsters and the Girl

The Gangsters and the Girl‌
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calendar 1914

The Cold Deck

The Cold Deck‌
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calendar 1917

The Masks of the Devil

The Masks of the Devil‌
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calendar 1928

The Half-Breed

The Half-Breed‌
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calendar 1916

Cytherea

Cytherea‌
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calendar 1924

She Goes to War

She Goes to War‌
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calendar 1929

The Americano

The Americano‌
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calendar 1916

Show Boat

Show Boat‌
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calendar 1929

The Gilded Butterfly

The Gilded Butterfly‌
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calendar 1926

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish‌
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calendar 1916

Humoresque

Humoresque‌
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calendar 1920

The Children Pay

The Children Pay‌
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calendar 1916

The Rejected Woman

The Rejected Woman‌
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calendar 1924

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages‌
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calendar 1916

Diane of the Green Van

Diane of the Green Van‌
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calendar 1919

Reggie Mixes In

Reggie Mixes In‌
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calendar 1916

An Old Fashioned Young Man

An Old Fashioned Young Man‌
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calendar 1917

A Woman's Awakening

A Woman's Awakening‌
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calendar 1917

The Dancers

The Dancers‌
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calendar 1925

Under the Red Robe

Under the Red Robe‌
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calendar 1923

The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation‌
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calendar 1915

Enemies of Women

Enemies of Women‌
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calendar 1923

Find the Woman

Find the Woman‌
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calendar 1922

The Valley of Silent Men

The Valley of Silent Men‌
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calendar 1922

The Ghost Flower

The Ghost Flower‌
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calendar 1918

East Lynne

East Lynne‌
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calendar 1925

The Gown Of Destiny

The Gown Of Destiny‌
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calendar 1917

Truthful Tulliver

Truthful Tulliver‌
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calendar 1917

The Heart of Salome

The Heart of Salome‌
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calendar 1927

Marriage License?

Marriage License?‌
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calendar 1926

Fine Clothes

Fine Clothes‌
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calendar 1925

The World and His Wife

The World and His Wife‌
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calendar 1920

Tv Credits