ALMA RUBENS BORN 1897 FEBRUARY 19 -1931 JANUARY 22 ON DRUG ADDICTION
ALMA RUBENS BORN 1897 FEBRUARY 19 -1931 JANUARY 22 ON DRUG ADDICTION Today is the birthday of Alma Rubens (Alma Genevieve Reubens, 1897-1931). Originally from San Francisco, Rubens started out when still a teenager as a chorus girl in musical comedies. There she met long-time trouper Franklyn Farnum, 20 years her senior, with whom she went into movies, and who was to become her first husband. She was an extra in D.W. Griffith films like The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), but then began to be cast opposite Douglas Fairbanks in such films as Reggie Mixes In (1916), The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916), The Half Breed (1916) and The Americano (1916). She co-starred in several westerns with William S. Hart. Then in 1920, she signed with William Randolph Hearst’s Metropolitan Pictures, starring in his hit Humoresque and others. Later she signed with Fox, where the film version of the melodrama favorite East Lynne (1925) was one of her hits. In 1927 she marrie...