Alma Rubens: Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Gary D. Rhodes, a documentary filmmaker, is a professor at the Queen's University, Belfast. Writer and producer Alexander Webb lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780786424139
ISBN-10:	0786424133
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Rubens, Alma
Redaktion:	Rhodes, Gary D. Webb, Alexander
Hersteller:	McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Alma Rubens
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.07.2006
Gewicht:	0,418 kg