Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird (Paperback)

Author: Gary Don/ Webb RhodesEditor: Gary D. Rhodes  Alexander Webb
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780786424139
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Publish Date: 7/10/2006
Buy.com Sku: 202245721
Item#: R5QKF7
 
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. 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 drug addiction that led to hospital stays, violence and deception. A filmography lists her credits from 1913 to 1929.
 
  
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