| Rubye De Remer | |
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| Born | Ruby Burkhardt January 9, 1892 Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Died | March 17, 1984 (aged 92) Beverly Hills, California, USA |
| Years active | 1917–1936 |
| Spouse | Ben Throop (1924 - ?) |
Rubye De Remer (January 9, 1892, Denver, Colorado - March 18, 1984, Beverly Hills, California) was an American dancer and actress in silent films.
Born Ruby Burkhardt, she began her stage career with the Midnight Frolic, a Florenz Ziegfeld show, in New York City.
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Her first film role came in 1917 in Enlighten Thy Daughter, a motion picture directed by Ivan Abramson. De Remer's abundant physical beauty impeded her attempts to secure quality film roles. The Fox Film production of the comedy, The Evil Eye (1920), starred De Remer, Catherine Calvert and Eugene O'Brien. In 1921, she played a hand organ while a monkey on a leash accompanied her through the streets of New York City. Her character was Christine in Pilgrims of the Night. 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 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim.
French artist Paul Helleu chose De Remer as his ideal of American beauty in 1920. Ziegfeld called De Remer the most beautiful blonde since Venus.
On April 7, 1924, De Remer wed Scranton, Pennsylvania, coal and iron magnate Benjamin Throop 2nd (1889–1935) in Paris, France. She was his second wife. Her husband had reportedly spent the entire family fortune by the time of this death.
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.