- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 17, 1897
- Place of Birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Died
- January 22, 1931
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 Dougla…
Filmography
movieDeath Scenes
1989 · Self (archive footage)
movieShow Boat
1929 · Julie Dozier
movieShe Goes to War
1929 · Rosie
movieThe Masks of the Devil
1928 · Countess Zellner
movieThe Heart of Salome
1927 · Helene
movieMarriage License?
1926 · Wanda Heriot
movieSiberia
1926 · Sonia Vronsky
movieThe Gilded Butterfly
1926 · Linda Haverhill
movieEast Lynne
1925 · Lady Isabel
movieThe Winding Stair
1925 · Marguerite
movieFine Clothes
1925 · Paula
A Woman's Faith
movieA Woman's Faith
1925 · Nerée Caron
movieShe Wolves
1925 · Germaine D'Artois
movieThe Dancers
1925 · Maxine
movieIs Love Everything?
1924 · Virginia Carter
movieGerald Cranston's Lady
1924 · Hermione, Lady Gerald Cranston
movieThe Price She Paid
1924 · Mildred Gower
movieCytherea
1924 · Savina Grove
movieThe Rejected Woman
1924 · Diane Du Prez
movieWeek End Husbands
1924 · Barbara Belden
movieUnder the Red Robe
1923 · Renee de Cocheforet
movieEnemies of Women
1923 · The Duchess de Lille
movieThe Valley of Silent Men
1922
movieFind the Woman
1922 · Sophie Carey
movieThe World and His Wife
1920 · Teodora
movieHumoresque
1920 · Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg)
movieA Man's Country
1919 · Kate Carewe
movieDiane of the Green Van
1919 · Diane Westfall
movieRestless Souls
1919 · Marion Gregory
movieThe Ghost Flower
1918
movieMadame Sphinx
1918 · Celeste
movieThe Answer
1918 · Lorraine Van Allen
movieThe Gown Of Destiny
1917 · Natalie Drew
movieThe Regenerates
1917 · Catherine Ten Eyck
movieThe Cold Deck
1917 · Coralie
movieThe Firefly of Tough Luck
1917 · Firefly
movieMaster of His Home
1917 · Millicent Drake
An Old Fashioned Young Man
movieAn Old Fashioned Young Man
1917
movieA Woman's Awakening
1917 · Cousin Kate (as Alma Rueben)
movieTruthful Tulliver
1917 · Grace Burton
movieThe Americano
1916 · Juana de Castalar
movieThe Children Pay
1916 · Editha, the Girls' Stepmother
movieIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
movieThe Half-Breed
1916 · Teresa
movieThe Mystery of the Leaping Fish
1916 · Wealthy Gent's Female Confederate
movieReggie Mixes In
1916 · Lemona Reighley
movieThe Birth of a Nation
1915 · Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
movieThe Gangsters and the Girl
1914