Rubye De Remer
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Rubye De Remer (January 9, 1892-March 18, 1984) was an American dancer and actress in silent films from Denver, Colorado.
She began her stage career with the Midnight Frolic, a Florenz Ziegfeld show, in New York City.
Her first film role came in 1917 in Enlighten Thy Daughter, a motion picture directed by Ivan Abramson. De Remer was hindered in obtaining quality film roles by her abundant physical beauty. The Fox Film production of the comedy, The Evil Eye (1920), starred De Remer, Catherine Culvert, and Eugene O'Brien. In 1921 she played a hand organ and was accompanied by a monkey on a leash through the streets of New York City. This was for her role as Christine in Pilgrims of the Night. In a number of films she worked for Associated Producers and acted opposite Lewis Stone. One of these was Passersby, a Frothingham production, adapted from the novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim.
French artist Paul Helleau chose De Remer as his ideal of American beauty in 1920. Eight years before he had selected the wife of actor John Barrymore as the most beautiful woman in America. Ziegfeld called De Remer the most beautiful blonde since Venus.
On April 7, 1924 De Remer wed Scranton, Pennsylvania coal and iron magnate Benjamin Troop in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, France. The couple lived for three years abroad. Part of their stay was spent residing in a villa in southern France.
De Remer's home in the Hollywood hills was called Sunkist. Its location was so high above the movie colony that it was said the clouds park right in her front yard.
Rubye De Remer died in Beverly Hills, California in 1984.
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- Davenport, Iowa Democrat and Leader, Most Persistent Lover Finally Weds Rubye de Remer, April 8, 1924, Page 20.
- Fresno Bee Republican, New York Day By Day, July 3, 1933, Page 24.
- Lima, Ohio News, Always Merry But Never Bright, July 27, 1930
- Madison, Wisconsin Capitol Times, Movie Notes, June 14, 1921, Page 4.
- Olean, New York, Haven, April 5, 1922, Page 4.
- Reno Evening Gazette, Women Taking Off Too Much She Says, April 7, 1920, Page 9.
- Sandusky, Ohio Star Journal, Has Noted Artist's Idea of Beauty Changed In 8 Years?, December 7, 1920, Page 6.
- Washington Post, Beauty Often a Handicap, August 3, 1919, Page 57.
