Paulette Rubinstein was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Russian
immigrant father and a French immigrant mother. She graduated high
school at 16 and went on to study the arts. She went from summer stock
with the likes of
Zero Mostel and
Maureen Stapleton to Broadway with
Eddie Albert and
Julie Andrews and then segued into translating into English and directing the
dubbed English version of several
Ingmar Bergman and other films. She has
written songs which were performed by Carmen MacRae and
Hal Linden and has
written several unpublished (so far) works. She was married to actor,
editor, director
Jack Curtis (who died in 1970) and had a daughter, actress
Liane Curtis, who lives in LA.