 Name: Alma Rubens |
| Birth Name: Alma Genevieve Rueben |
| Born: February 19, 1897, San Francisco, CA |
| Father: John Rueben (1868-1916) |
| Mother: Theresa Hayes (1871-1940) |
| Siblings: Hazel Rueben (ca. 1892-1968) |
| CAREER |
| Active On-Screen Years: 1913-1929 |
| PERSONAL LIFE |
| Married silent film actor Franklyn Farnum (1878-1961) in 1918 and they divorced in 1919. She then married screenwriter/film producer Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman (1881-1957) in 1923 and they divorced in 1925. She married silent film actor Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977) in 1926 and remained married to him until her death in 1931. |
| TRIVIA |
| She became addicted to morphine in the mid 1920’s. This addiction resulted in treatments at multiple sanatariums. She made headlines in 1929 when she attempted to stab a nurse and threatened to kill herself. This addiction ended her career and effectively ended her life. |
| At the time of her death, she was in the process of suing for divorce from Ricardo Cortez. |
| DEATH |
| Died: January 22, 1931, Los Angeles, CA |
| Age: 33 |
| Cause: pneumonia |
| Interred: Ararat Cemetery, Fresno, CA |
| FILMOGRAPHY |
| 1913 Banzai
1914 Narcotic Spectre 1914 The Gangsters and the Girl 1915 The Birth of a Nation 1915 The Lorelei Madonna 1915 Peer Gynt 1915 A Woman’s Wiles 1916 Reggie Mixes In 1916 The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1916 The Half-Breed 1916 Judith of the Cumberlands 1916 Intolerance 1916 The Children Pay 1916 The Americano 1917 Truthful Tolliver 1917 A Woman’s Awakening 1917 An Old Fashioned Young Man 1917 Master of His Home 1917 The Cold Deck 1917 The Firefly of Tough Luck 1917 The Regenerates 1917 The Gown of Destiny 1918 I Love You 1918 The Answer 1918 The Love Brokers 1918 Madame Sphinx 1918 The Painted Lily 1918 False Ambition 1918 The Ghost Flower 1919 Restless Souls 1919 Diane of the Green Van 1919 A Man’s Country 1920 Humoresque 1920 The World and His Wife 1920 Thoughtless Women 1922 Find the Woman 1922 The Valley of Silent Men 1923 Enemies of Women 1923 Under the Red Robe 1924 Week End Husbands 1924 The Rejected Woman 1924 Cytherea 1924 The Price She Paid 1924 Gerald Cranston’s Lady 1924 Is Love Everything? 1925 The Dancers 1925 She Wolves 1925 A Woman’s Faith 1925 Fine Clothes 1925 The Winding Stair 1925 East Lynne 1926 The Gilded Butterfly 1926 Siberia 1926 Marriage License? 1927 One Increasing Purpose 1927 Heart of Salome 1928 The Masks of the Devil 1929 Show Boat 1929 She Goes to War
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