Ruby Blaine

{{Short description|American actress (1903–1976)}} {{Infobox person | name = Ruby Blaine | image = The Midnight Girl (1925) - 2.jpg | image_size = | caption = Blaine in ''The Midnight Girl'' (1925) | birth_date = August 27, 1903 | birth_place = Hutchinson, Kansas, United States | death_date = May 31, 1976 (aged 72) | death_place = Florida, United States | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1925-1928 (film) }} '''Ruby Blaine''' (August 27, 1903 – May 31, 1976) was an American film actress of the silent era.<ref>Munden p. 435</ref>

==Early life== Born '''Ruby F. Blain''' on August 27, 1903, in Hutchinson, Kansas, she was one of nine children. The family moved to Colorado while she was still very young.<ref>{{cite news |title=Film Actress Takes Up Athletic Training |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ruby-blaine/145366345/ |access-date=April 14, 2024 |work=Sioux City Journal |date=February 22, 1925 |page=20|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> She competed in a local rodeo when she was sixteen years old, which contributed to her later being cast in Western films.<ref>{{cite book |last=S.D. |first=Trav |date=2006 |title=No Applause, Just Throw Money |url= |location= |publisher=Farrar, Straus, & Giroux |page=213 |isbn=9780571211920 |access-date=}}</ref>

==Career and life== Blaine acted in films of various genres from 1925 to 1929. She first moved to New York in 1924, where she worked as a dancer and won the title of Miss New York.<ref>"Seen on the Screen", ''The Suffolk Times'', pg. 3. New York City, NY. April 16, 1926</ref><ref>"They're Convention Beauty Nominees", ''Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian'', pg. 5. Cape Girardeau, MO. July 14, 1924.</ref> She played several minor and supporting roles in films directed by the likes of Wilfred Noy, Alfred Santell, D. W. Griffith, and James Parrott.

She married Irving Weinberg, a millionaire stockbroker, in 1927 but they ultimately divorced in 1930. He married another actress three years later.<ref>{{cite news |title=Miss Compson and Weinberg plan wedding |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news/145367400/ |access-date=April 14, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |date=December 12, 1933 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414200647/https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news/145367400/ |archive-date=April 14, 2024 |page=11|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> Blaine worked as a model and hostess in New York City nightclubs after her divorce.

==Death and legacy== Blaine died of natural causes in Florida on May 31, 1976. She was cremated.

==Complete filmography== {{div col}} * ''The Midnight Girl'' (1925) * ''Headlines'' (1925) * ''Children of the Whirlwind'' (1925) * ''Bluebeard's Seven Wives'' (1926) * ''The Quarterback'' (1926, uncredited) * ''The Sorrows of Satan'' (1926) * ''Lightning Lariats'' (1927) * ''Bitter Apples'' (1927) * ''The Terror of Bar X'' (1927) * ''Gun-Hand Garrison'' (1927) * ''Wild Born'' (1927) * ''Ridin' Luck'' (1927) * ''Two Tars'' (1928, short) * ''The Booster'' (1928, short) * ''School Begins'' (1928) * ''Is Everybody Happy?'' (1929, short) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0086174}}

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