Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird

Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography

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by Alma Rubens

Type

Autobiographies

Subject

Actress > Alma Rubens

Keywords

Alma Rubens, actress, silent cinema

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Collection

Silent Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 252 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7864-2413-3
978-0-7864-2413-9

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Book Presentation:
Dark-eyed and distant Alma Rubens was one of the first female stars of the early feature film industry in the 1910s. She was a major star by 1920, but before the decade was over her screen career was marked and marred by cocaine abuse. She died in 1931 at age 33—a Hollywood beauty, a casualty of Hollywood “snow,” yet much more. As an actress she was versatile, demonstrating a talent that was ahead of its time with her gentle and subtle expressions.

This book contains Rubens’s autobiography, a text titled This Bright World Again that was serialized in newspapers in 1931. Ghost-written or not or somewhere in between, this long forgotten document deals with Rubens’s addiction and despair. In addition, a new biography of Rubens takes the reader from her birth in San Francisco through an impoverished upbringing, three short-lived marriages, and her career in pictures for Triangle Film, Cosmopolitan, Fox and other production companies. The story of her film career mingles with a tale of desperate drug addiction that led to hospital stays, violence and deception. A filmography lists her credits from 1913 to 1929.

About the Author:
Gary D. Rhodes, a documentary filmmaker, is a professor at the Queen’s University, Belfast.
Writer and producer Alexander Webb lives in Portland, Maine.

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