She and her elder sister, Hazel (born 1893[1]) were raised in their mother's faith and attended Sacred Heart Convent in San Francisco.

That name was in fact a pseudonym that she later used in a non-professional capacity, as Genevieve was her middle name and Driscoll was her maternal grandmother's maiden name.

Later the same year, Rubens was re-teamed with Fairbanks for cocaine comedy The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, The Half-Breed and The Americano.

The next year, Rubens co-starred in two westerns, Truthful Tolliver with William S. Hart and The Firefly of Tough Luck with Charles Gunn.

In 1918, she announced that she was changing the spelling of her last name of Rueben to "Rubens" because it caused too much confusion in the movie industry and in publications.

[7] Later that year, she starred in dramas The World and His Wife, opposite Montague Love, and Thoughtless Women, both of which further solidified her popularity.

[10] In 1924, she starred in The Price She Paid for Columbia Pictures Corporation and had a supporting role in the Associated First National production Cytherea.

[4] While at Fox, she starred in the hit melodrama East Lynne (1925) opposite Edmund Lowe and Lou Tellegen.

[11] She also had roles in The Gilded Butterfly with Bert Lytell and Siberia (both 1926), the latter of which re-teamed Rubens with Edmund Lowe and Lou Tellegen.

[4] By late 1927, Rubens' drug addiction severely impacted her career as she frequently was admitted to sanatariums for treatment for months at a time.

[14] She made her first public appearance after her release on January 30, 1930, in a role in a play produced at the Writer's Club in Hollywood.

[8] In early February 1930, Rubens traveled to New York where she announced she was now free of drug addiction and planning a comeback with a vaudeville tour in the East.

She was there less than two weeks when, on January 5, 1931, she was arrested by Federal officers in San Diego for cocaine possession and conspiracy to smuggle morphine from Mexico into the United States.

[4] Rubens third and final marriage was to actor Ricardo Cortez, whom she married on January 30, 1926, in Riverside, California.

Cortez claimed he had not been notified of his wife's death, and later remarked that he had not seen her for several months and was unaware that she was seriously ill.[22] Shortly after her release from jail on charges of cocaine possession, Rubens contracted a cold that quickly developed into lobar pneumonia and bronchitis.

[17] A funeral service was held on January 24 at the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.