Zelda Rubinstein

Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and activist (died 2010)

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Born: May 28, 1933
Died: January 27, 2010
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Birth year: 1933

About Zelda Rubinstein

Zelda May Rubinstein was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. Playing "Ginny", she was a regular on David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning television series Picket Fences for two seasons. She also made guest appearances in the TV show Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), as seer Christina, and was the voice of Skittles candies in their long-running "Taste the Rainbow" ad campaign. Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for little people and her early participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In a 1992 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Rubinstein told the newspaper that she "had a rough childhood, I became very verbally facile.

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The world when Zelda Rubinstein was born

Zelda Rubinstein was born in 1933. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1933

#1 song"Stormy Weather" – Ethel Waters
Top movieKing Kong
Best-selling bookLost Horizon – James Hilton

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentFirst MLB All-Star Game played at Comiskey Park
Top headlineAdolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Technology milestoneFM radio patented by Edwin Armstrong
Defining fadChain letters
Notable inventionFM radio
World population2.17 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderFranklin D. Roosevelt
Sports championNew York Giants (World Series)
U.S. population125.6M

1933 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Zelda Rubinstein's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1933	2026
Gas	$0.18	$3.45/gal
Average home	$4,800	$435,000
Average income	$2,300	$67,500
Minimum wage	$0.25	$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket	$0.20	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.03	$0.73
Population	125.6M	341 million

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