Rubye De Remer
Rubye De Remer | |
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| Born |
Ruby Burkhardt
January 9, 1892 |
| Died | March 17, 1984 (aged 92) |
| Years active | 1917–1936 |
| Spouse | Ben Throop (1924 - ?) |
Rubye De Remer (born Ruby Burkhard; January 9, 1892 – March 18, 1984) was an American dancer and actress in silent films. She began her stage career with the Midnight Frolic, a Florenz Ziegfeld show, in New York City.
Film actress
Her first film role came in 1917 in Enlighten Thy Daughter, a picture directed by Ivan Abramson. The Fox Film comedy, The Evil Eye (1920), starred De Remer, Catherine Calvert and Eugene O'Brien. As Christine, in Pilgrims of the Night (1921), she played a hand organ while a monkey on a leash accompanied her through the streets of New York City. She worked for Associated Producers, acting opposite Lewis Stone in a number of films. One of these was Passersby, a Frothingham production, adapted from the E. Phillips Oppenheim novel. Among her final starring films were three features directed by Marcel Perez: The Way Women Love (1920), Luxury (1921), and Unconquered Woman (1922).
Ideal beauty
French artist Paul Helleu chose De Remer as his ideal of American beauty in 1920. Florenz Ziegfeld called De Remer the most beautiful blonde since Venus.
Marriage
On April 7, 1924, De Remer wed Scranton, Pennsylvania, coal and iron magnate Dr. Benjamin Throop 2nd (1889–1935) in Paris, France. Her husband- she was his second wife- reportedly spent the entire family fortune by the time of his death. De Remer's Hollywood Hills home- Sunkist- was so high above the movie colony that it was said the clouds park right in her front yard.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Enlighten Thy Daughter | Ruth Stevens | Lost film |
| Tillie Wakes Up | Mrs. Luella Pipkins | ||
| Two Men and a Woman | Lost film | ||
| The Auction Block | Lorelei Knight | Lost film | |
| 1918 | We Should Worry | Miss Ashton | Lost film |
| Ashes of Love | Ethel Woodridge | ||
| Pals First | Jean Logan | Lost film | |
| Life's Greatest Problem | Alice Webster | ||
| For Freedom | Mary Fenton | Lost film | |
| 1919 | The Great Romance | Althea Hanway | Lost film |
| Fires of Faith | Agnes Traverse, His Fiancée | Lost film | |
| Dust of Desire | Beth Vinton | Lost film | |
| 1920 | His Temporary Wife | Annabelle Rose | Lost film |
| A Fool and His Money | Aline | Lost film | |
| The Way Women Love | Judith Reytnard | Lost film | |
| 1921 | The Passionate Pilgrim | Miriam Calverly | Incomplete film |
| Luxury | Blanche Young | Lost film | |
| Pilgrims of the Night | Christine | Lost film | |
| 1922 | Unconquered Woman | Helen Chapelle | Lost film |
| 1923 | The Glimpses of the Moon | Mrs. Ellie Vanderlyn | Lost film |
| Don't Marry for Money | Marion Whitney | Lost film | |
| 1925 | A Fool and His Money | Lost film | |
| 1936 | The Gorgeous Hussy | Mrs. Bellamy |