Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird : Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography

Rubens, Alma/ Rhodes, Gary D. (EDT)/ Webb, Alexander (EDT)

McFarland & Co Inc（2006/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 252 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786424139
• DDC分類 791.43028092

Full Description

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.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Preface     

PART I. Editors' Biography     

Life and Love     

Films and Acting     

Drugs and Death     

A Note on the Memoir     

PART II. This Bright World Again

The Original Text     

PART III. Filmography     

Appendix. Advertisements for Alma's Newspaper Autobiography     

Notes to Part I     

Index