Profile
Alma Rubens
Actress + Performer
Female
Born
Feb 19, 1897
Hometown
San Francisco, Ca...
Died
Jan 22, 1931
Death Place
Los Angeles, Cali...
Other Names
Alma Rueben
Alma Rubens was an American silent film actress and stage performer.
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1897
Birth
Born on February 19, 1897.
TEENAGE
1916
19 Years Old
Her breakthrough performance was in 1916 in the movie Reggie Mixes In.
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TWENTIES
1917
20 Years Old
In 1917 she starred in The Firefly of Tough Luck, which was a big success.
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1918
21 Years Old
Rubens married three times. Her first marriage to actor Franklyn Farnum, nearly twenty years her senior, lasted only a month. The couple were married secretly, and Rubens sought a divorce in August 1918.

1923
26 Years Old
In November 1923 she married Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, an author and film producer. The marriage was brief and a suit for divorce was filed in January 1925.
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She retired temporarily from the screen in 1926.
THIRTIES

1929
32 Years Old
Her career practically ended overnight, as fast as it had begun. Rubens did play Julie in the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat--her next-to-last film and one of her few sound films.
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Her final stage appearance was in January 1930.
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She was bound over to Federal district court and released on bail, and appeared for a preliminary hearing the second week of January 1931.
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