Ruby Blaine — Out of the West (1927) 🇺🇸

There is a breath of her native Colorado mountains about Ruby Blaine. For, just like young Lochinvar, Miss Blaine has come out of the West to steal the hearts of the movie fans. She is a hard-working player, with serious and sincere intentions, determined to get ahead in her chosen field.

Miss Blaine’s start has been auspicious. She was selected by David Wark Griffith for a small role in The Sorrows of Satan and demonstrated enough histrionic talent in that film to cause other Paramount directors in the East to use her for increasingly larger parts in “Fine Manners,” “The Great Gatsby,” “The Ace of Cads,” and “The Quarterback.”

Previous to entering Paramount pictures, she had been getting valuable experience in the independent field, and played in “The Midnight Girl” for Chadwick, and “Headlines” for St. Regis Pictures. Since The Sorrows of Satan, however, she has appeared only in Paramount productions and hopes to continue under that banner indefinitely.

Miss Blaine has never appeared on the speaking stage. She spent her earliest days on horseback, roaming around Colorado as much as her parents would allow. This vagabond spirit was forcibly quelled when, at the age of sixteen, she was discovered by her father in the midst of bustin’ a broncho at a local rodeo. He dashed in among the yelling and cheering cowboys, yanked her from the saddle, and forthwith proceeded to inflict upon her more damage than the broncho had.

At the age of twenty. Miss Blaine accepted an invitation to visit friends in the East and, except for a short visit to Hollywood last fall, has never returned West. Her three years in the East have been filled with achievements which forecast greater ones to come.

Photo by: Strauss Peyton Studio

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, January 1927