Alma Rubens

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.

  • Title: Alma Rubens
  • Popularity: 0.953
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1897-02-17
  • Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Alma Genevieve Reubens
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Alma Rubens Movies

  • 1925
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    The Winding Stair

    The Winding Stair

    1 1925 HD

    Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually...

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  • 1917
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    Master of His Home

    Master of His Home

    1 1917 HD

    Unhappy with her daughter's choice to marry a miner instead of her choice, a man of wealth, a mother tries to convince her daughter to get an...

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  • 1919
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    A Man's Country

    A Man's Country

    1 1919 HD

    Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to "clean up" the town....

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  • 1924
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    Is Love Everything?

    Is Love Everything?

    1 1924 HD

    Virginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a wealthy and socially prominent family. However, she...

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  • 1926
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    Siberia

    Siberia

    1 1926 HD

    Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts her lot with revolutionaries. During a time of...

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  • 1914
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    The Gangsters and the Girl

    The Gangsters and the Girl

    1 1914 HD

    Molly Ashley, a child of the slums, is charged with being an accomplice to a shoplifter. Although innocent, she is convicted of shoplifting and...

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  • 1917
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    The Cold Deck

    The Cold Deck

    1 1917 HD

    Gambler "On-the Level" Leigh (William S. Hart) is forced to leave his high rolling lifestyle to move his ailing sister Alice (Mildred Harris) to the...

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  • 1928
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    The Masks of the Devil

    The Masks of the Devil

    1 1928 HD

    Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best...

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  • 1916
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    The Half-Breed

    The Half-Breed

    5.8 1916 HD

    In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama...

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  • 1924
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    Cytherea

    Cytherea

    1 1924 HD

    Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire...

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  • 1929
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    She Goes to War

    She Goes to War

    6 1929 HD

    A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really...

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  • 1916
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    The Americano

    The Americano

    5.8 1916 HD

    Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the...

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  • 1929
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    Show Boat

    Show Boat

    5 1929 HD

    This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

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  • 1926
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    The Gilded Butterfly

    The Gilded Butterfly

    1 1926 HD

    Left penniless after the death of her reprobate father Linda Haverhill procures a loan from John Converse, who is smitten with her. She squanders the...

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  • 1916
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    The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

    The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

    5.771 1916 HD

    Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation...

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  • 1920
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    Humoresque

    Humoresque

    5.5 1920 HD

    Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming...

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  • 1916
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    The Children Pay

    The Children Pay

    1 1916 HD

    What will become of the Children in a home divided....

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  • 1924
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    The Rejected Woman

    The Rejected Woman

    5 1924 HD

    Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...

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  • 1916
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    7.049 1916 HD

    The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

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  • 1919
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    Diane of the Green Van

    Diane of the Green Van

    1 1919 HD

    An heiress takes a road trip in a green van. Unbeknownst to her, she has four pursuers.

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  • 1916
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    Reggie Mixes In

    Reggie Mixes In

    5.8 1916 HD

    Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher sections of the city in search of thrills. He...

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  • 1917
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    A Woman's Awakening

    A Woman's Awakening

    1 1917 HD

    A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.

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  • 1917
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    An Old Fashioned Young Man

    An Old Fashioned Young Man

    1 1917 HD

    A 1917 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.

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  • 1925
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    The Dancers

    The Dancers

    5 1925 HD

    Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a...

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  • 1923
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    Under the Red Robe

    Under the Red Robe

    5 1923 HD

    A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The...

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  • 1915
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    The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation

    6 1915 HD

    Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...

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  • 1923
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    Enemies of Women

    Enemies of Women

    5.2 1923 HD

    The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he...

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  • 1922
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    The Valley of Silent Men

    The Valley of Silent Men

    6 1922 HD

    The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a...

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  • 1922
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    Find the Woman

    Find the Woman

    1 1922 HD

    This whodunit bears no relation to the 1918 picture of the same name, but both films coincidentally had the same director, Tom Terriss. When sleazy...

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  • 1918
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    The Ghost Flower

    The Ghost Flower

    1 1918 HD

    Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's...

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  • 1925
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    East Lynne

    East Lynne

    1 1925 HD

    This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once...

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  • 1917
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    The Gown Of Destiny

    The Gown Of Destiny

    1 1917 HD

    Rejected by the army because of his petite size, French dress designer Andre Leriche conceives the idea of designing a gown that will aid his...

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  • 1917
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    Truthful Tulliver

    Truthful Tulliver

    1 1917 HD

    Truthful Tulliver, a Westerner and a journeying newspaperman, followed by Silver Lode Thompson, printer and compositor, arrives in Glory Hole to...

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  • 1926
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    Marriage License?

    Marriage License?

    1 1926 HD

    When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his mother, reject her because of her outsider status....

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  • 1927
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    The Heart of Salome

    The Heart of Salome

    1 1927 HD

    1927 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter Pidgeon.

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  • 1925
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    Fine Clothes

    Fine Clothes

    1 1925 HD

    The owner of a London clothing store is driven out of business, but later makes a triumphant return.

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  • 1920
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    The World and His Wife

    The World and His Wife

    1 1920 HD

    Elderly Spanish nobleman Don Julian is happily married to Teodora, a beautiful young girl, when his protégé, young poet Ernesto, comes...

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