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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1989Death Scenes — Self (archive footage)