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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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Filmography (Movies)
Death Scenes
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1989
Show Boat
Character:Julie Dozier
Release Date:27/07/1929
She Goes to War
Character:Rosie
Release Date:07/06/1929
The Masks of the Devil
Character:Countess Zellner
Release Date:17/11/1928
The Heart of Salome
Character:Helene
Release Date:08/05/1927
Marriage License?
Character:Wanda Heriot
Release Date:05/09/1926
Siberia
Character:Sonia Vronsky
Release Date:28/03/1926
The Gilded Butterfly
Character:Linda Haverhill
Release Date:03/01/1926
East Lynne
Character:Lady Isabel
Release Date:23/11/1925
The Winding Stair
Character:Marguerite
Release Date:25/10/1925
Fine Clothes
Character:Paula
Release Date:09/08/1925
A Woman's Faith
Character:Nerée Caron
Release Date:09/08/1925
She Wolves
Character:Germaine D'Artois
Release Date:26/04/1925
The Dancers
Character:Maxine
Release Date:04/01/1925
Is Love Everything?
Character:Virginia Carter
Release Date:30/11/1924
Gerald Cranston's Lady
Character:Hermione, Lady Gerald Cranston
Release Date:19/10/1924
The Price She Paid
Character:Mildred Gower
Release Date:15/09/1924
Cytherea
Character:Savina Grove
Release Date:04/05/1924
The Rejected Woman
Character:Diane Du Prez
Release Date:04/05/1924
Week End Husbands
Character:Barbara Belden
Release Date:10/02/1924
Under the Red Robe
Character:Renee de Cocheforet
Release Date:12/11/1923
Enemies of Women
Character:The Duchess de Lille
Release Date:15/04/1923
The Valley of Silent Men
Character:
Release Date:10/09/1922
Find the Woman
Character:Sophie Carey
Release Date:02/04/1922
The World and His Wife
Character:Teodora
Release Date:18/07/1920
Humoresque
Character:Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg)
Release Date:29/05/1920
A Man's Country
Character:Kate Carewe
Release Date:13/07/1919
Diane of the Green Van
Character:Diane Westfall
Release Date:09/02/1919
Restless Souls
Character:Marion Gregory
Release Date:02/02/1919
The Ghost Flower
Character:
Release Date:18/08/1918
Madame Sphinx
Character:Celeste
Release Date:09/06/1918
The Answer
Character:Lorraine Van Allen
Release Date:17/03/1918
The Gown Of Destiny
Character:Natalie Drew
Release Date:30/12/1917
The Regenerates
Character:Catherine Ten Eyck
Release Date:25/11/1917
The Cold Deck
Character:Coralie
Release Date:31/10/1917
The Firefly of Tough Luck
Character:Firefly
Release Date:21/10/1917
Master of His Home
Character:Millicent Drake
Release Date:12/08/1917
An Old Fashioned Young Man
Character:
Release Date:14/04/1917
A Woman's Awakening
Character:Cousin Kate (as Alma Rueben)
Release Date:24/03/1917
Truthful Tulliver
Character:Grace Burton
Release Date:07/01/1917
The Americano
Character:Juana de Castalar
Release Date:23/12/1916
The Children Pay
Character:Editha, the Girls' Stepmother
Release Date:26/11/1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character:Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
Release Date:04/09/1916
The Half-Breed
Character:Teresa
Release Date:30/07/1916
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Character:Wealthy Gent's Female Confederate
Release Date:11/06/1916
Reggie Mixes In
Character:Lemona Reighley
Release Date:10/06/1916
The Birth of a Nation
Character:Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
Release Date:08/03/1915
The Gangsters and the Girl
Character:
Release Date:07/08/1914
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