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

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.