Juliet Barrett Rublee

{{short description|American film producer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1875|3|2|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois

| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|5|17|1875|3|2|mf=y}}

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| nationality = American

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| occupation = film producer, birth control advocate

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| spouse = {{marriage|George Rublee|1899}}

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Juliet Barrett Rublee (March 2, 1875 - May 17, 1966) was an American birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer.{{cite web |url=http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss285_bioghist.html |title=Juliet Barrett Rublee Papers, 1917-1955: Biographical and Historical Note |publisher=Asteria.fivecolleges.edu |date= |accessdate=2018-03-05 |archive-date=2015-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919180755/http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss285_bioghist.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.159055 |title=Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee, Grand Marshal of the procession organized by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage which on May 9th, 1914 marched to the Capitol to present resolutions gathered in all parts of the United States calling on Congress to take favorable action on the National Woman Suffr | Library of Congress |publisher=Loc.gov |date= |accessdate=2018-03-05}}{{cite web |url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-juliet-barrett-rublee/ |title=Juliet Barrett Rublee – Women Film Pioneers Project |publisher=Wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu |date= |accessdate=2018-03-05 |archive-date=2017-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224201354/https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-juliet-barrett-rublee/ |url-status=dead }} She was married to George Rublee.

Born in Chicago, Juliet Barrett Rublee was the heir to the Barrett Company, a roofing supply and tar manufacturer.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KIvDwAAQBAJ&q=Juliet+Barrett+Rublee&pg=PA265|title=Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870–1967|last=Johnson|first=Joan Marie|date=2017-08-04|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=9781469634708|language=en}} She attended Miss Porter's School.

In 1899, Juliet married George Rublee, a Wilson appointee to the Federal Trade Commission.

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.{{Cite news|url=https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/women-of-wealth-and-influence/|title=Women of Wealth and Influence|date=2011-01-21|work=Margaret Sanger Papers Project|access-date=2018-03-15|language=en-US}} Other members of the Committee of 100 included Mary Ware Dennett, Rose Pastor Stokes, and Crystal Eastman. 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. Rublee was responsible for writing many of the materials produced by the Committee of 100.

The Committee of 100 disbanded shortly after Sanger's trial ended, but Committee members continued to support Sanger and the birth control movement. 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.

Rublee was Sanger's most significant financial backer.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_J5OPvEyrUC&q=Juliet+barrett+Rublee&pg=PA88|title=A History of the Birth Control Movement in America|last=Engelman|first=Peter|date=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313365096|language=en}} She helped Sanger establish herself among the wealthy and powerful in New York, Washington, and Chicago.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rHNlZkqY6w4C&q=Juliet+Rublee&pg=PA30|title=Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues|last1=Endres|first1=Kathleen L.|last2=Lueck|first2=Therese L.|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313286322|language=en}} She also paid the rent of the Birth Control Review offices.

She led a diving expedition for treasure in the Mediterranean Sea in 1925.

She produced the silent film Flame of Mexico (1932), also known as The Soul of Mexico, The Heart of Mexico and Alma Mexicana. Rublee invested $150,000 of her own money into the film. It may be the first US feature motion picture made entirely in Mexico.

Her papers are maintained by Smith College.{{cite web|last1=Sophia Smith Collection|title=Juliet Barrett Rublee Papers|url=http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss285_bioghist.html|website=Five College Archives & Manuscript Collections|accessdate=23 August 2015|archive-date=19 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919180755/http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss285_bioghist.html|url-status=dead}}