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Juliet Barrett Rublee
American film producer (1875–1966)
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Juliet Barrett Rublee (March 2, 1875 – May 17, 1966) was an American birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer.[1][2][3] She was married to lawyer George Rublee.[3]
Biography
Born on March 2, 1875, in Chicago, Rublee was the heir to the Barrett Company, a roofing supply and tar manufacturer.[4] She attended Miss Porter's School.[4]
In 1899, Juliet married George Rublee, a Wilson appointee to the Federal Trade Commission.[4] In 1911, she served as the president of the Cornish Equal Suffrage League and worked towards women's suffrage in New Hampshire.[5] She also participated in women's suffrage parades in New York.[5]
Juliet Rublee was a member of the Committee of 100 which was organized in January 1917 to protest the recent arrest of birth control activists in Brownsville, Brooklyn.[6] Other members of the Committee of 100 included Mary Ware Dennett, Rose Pastor Stokes, and Crystal Eastman.[6] They held a protest rally at Carnegie Hall on January 28, 1917, and published a booklet titled The Birth Control Movement, highlighting Sanger's work and the positive effects of family limitation.[6] Rublee was responsible for writing many of the materials produced by the Committee of 100.[4]
The Committee of 100 disbanded shortly after Sanger's trial ended, but Committee members continued to support Sanger and the birth control movement.[6] They funded the Birth Control Review, a monthly journal founded in 1917, and by lent their support to the First American Birth Control Conference, in held in 1921.[6]
Rublee was Sanger's most significant financial backer.[7] She helped Sanger establish herself among the wealthy and powerful in New York, Washington, and Chicago.[8] She also paid the rent of the Birth Control Review offices.[8]
She led a diving expedition for treasure in the Mediterranean Sea in 1925.[1]
She produced the silent film Flame of Mexico (1932), also known as The Soul of Mexico, The Heart of Mexico and Alma Mexicana.[3] Rublee invested $150,000 of her own money into the film.[3] It may be the first American feature motion picture made entirely in Mexico.[3]
Her papers are maintained by Smith College.[9]
Gallery
Juliet Barrett Rublee as a dancer for The Masque, 1914
Juliet Barrett Rublee as Tacita the dryad, in a 1913 rehearsal for Sanctuary, A Bird Masque, by Percy MacKaye
