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, Rubens developed a drug addiction which eventually ended her career. She died of pneumonia shortly after being arrested on narcotics charge in January 1931.
[in her last interview in the Los Angeles Examiner] As long as my money held out I could get drugs. I was afraid to tell my mother, my best friends. My only desire was to get drugs and take them in secrecy. If only I could get on my knees before the police or before a judge and beg them to make stiffer laws so that men will refuse to take any dirty dollars from the murderers who sell this poison and who escape punishment when caught by buying their way out.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
She Goes to War
1929
Rosie
Show Boat
1929
Julie Dozier
The Masks of the Devil
1928
Countess Zellner
Heart of Salome
1927
Helene
One Increasing Purpose
1927
uncredited
Marriage License?
1926
Wanda Heriot
Siberia
1926
Sonia Vronsky
The Gilded Butterfly
1926
Linda Haverhill
East Lynne
1925
Lady Isabel
The Winding Stair
1925
Marguerite
Fine Clothes
1925
Paula
A Woman's Faith
1925
Nerée Caron
She Wolves
1925
Germaine D'Artois
The Dancers
1925
Maxine
Is Love Everything?
1924
Virginia Carter
Gerald Cranston's Lady
1924
Hermione, Lady Gerald Cranston
The Price She Paid
1924
Mildred Gower
Cytherea
1924
Savina Grove
The Rejected Woman
1924
Diane Du Prez (as Miss Alma Rubens)
Week End Husbands
1924
Barbara Belden
Under the Red Robe
1923
Renee de Cocheforet
Enemies of Women
1923
Alicia
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
Marette Radison
Find the Woman
1922
Sophie Carey
Thoughtless Women
1920
Annie Marnet
The World and His Wife
1920
Teodora
Humoresque
1920
Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg)
A Man's Country
1919
Kate Carewe
Diane of the Green Van
1919
Diane Westfall
Restless Souls
1919
Marion Gregory
The Ghost Flower
1918
Giulia
False Ambition
1918
Judith / Zariska
The Painted Lily
1918
Mary Fanjoy
Madame Sphinx
1918
Celeste
The Love Brokers
1918
Charlotte Carter
The Answer
1918
Lorraine Van Allen
I Love You
1918
Felice
The Gown of Destiny
1917
Natalie Drew
The Regenerates
1917
Catherine Ten Eyck (as Alma Reuben)
The Firefly of Tough Luck
1917
Firefly
The Cold Deck
1917
Coralie
Master of His Home
1917
Millicent Drake (as Alma Ruben)
An Old Fashioned Young Man
1917
A Woman's Awakening
1917
Cousin Kate (as Alma Rueben)
Truthful Tulliver
1917
Grace Burton
The Americano
1916
Juana de Valdez
The Children Pay
1916
Editha - The Girls' Stepmother
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
Girl at the Marriage Market (uncredited)
Judith of the Cumberlands
1916
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Half-Breed
1916
Teresa
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
1916
Short
Wealthy Gent's Female Confederate (uncredited)
Reggie Mixes In
1916
Lemona Reighley
A Woman's Wiles
1915
Short
Lucile Bergere - a Parisian Model (as Alma Ruben)
Peer Gynt
1915
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Lorelei Madonna
1915
Short
Alma - the Lorelei Madonna (as Alma Ruben)
The Birth of a Nation
1915
Belle of 1861 (uncredited)
The Gangsters and the Girl
1914
Short
Undetermined Secondary Role
Narcotic Spectre
1914
Short
Banzai
1913
Short
Mirami - Daughter of a Samurai
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 9
1923
Documentary short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hollywood
1980
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself
Movie Memories
1934
Documentary short
Herself
The Fall of Babylon
1919
Girl in Marriage Market
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Motion Picture
On 8 February 1960. At 6409 Hollywood Blvd.
Known for movies
Humoresque (1920) as Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg)
$20 Million
