Rudolph Valentino
Birthday: 1895-05-05
Place of Birth: Castellaneta, Puglia, Italy
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik. His sudden death at age 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans, propelling him into icon status. Though his films are not as well known today, his name is still widely known. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rudolph Valentino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Rudolph Valentino - Idol of the Jazz Age
A short look back on the legacy of Rudolph Valentino, produced by Castle Films for the home gauge ma...
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Holl...
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine f...
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My Official Wife
This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she h...
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The Sheik
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her of...
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Yesterday and Today
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the m...
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Cobra
Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas...
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The Married Virgin
In order to save her wealthy father from disgrace and a possible prison sentence, a daughter agrees ...
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Nobody Home
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The Cheater
Lilly Meany has grown up amongst charlatans, including her father. She decides to become a faith hea...
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The Big Little Person
After Arathea Manning loses her hearing during an epidemic of scarlet fever among the children she t...
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Passion's Playground
Mary Grant has a gambling father and a mother who has disappeared. Even though she has been raised i...
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Uncharted Seas
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse...
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Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman...
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Blue Skies
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numb...
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Monsieur Beaucaire
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and h...
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The Battle of the Sexes
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his w...
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The Son of the Sheik
Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts...
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Blood and Sand
Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as torea...
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The Eagle
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He s...
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Moran of the Lady Letty
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-to...
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The Delicious Little Devil
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she...
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Camille
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval....
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Stolen Moments
Vera Blaine, a young woman in the deep South, is passionate and romantic. So, she's easy prey for Jo...
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The Young Rajah
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by ...
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All Night
A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to tak...
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A Society Sensation
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot ...
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The Conquering Power
Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fort...
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An Adventuress
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the live...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
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Eyes of Youth
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see ...
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The Wonderful Chance
Upon leaving prison, an ex con vows to go straight, but circumstances force him to return to crime. ...
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The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles...
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Patria
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States,...
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Rudolph Valentino and His 88 American Beauties
This short was pretty much just thrown together by David O. Selznick to make a quick buck off of Val...
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Alimony
Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), a...
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Character Studies
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applyin...
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Once to Every Woman
Aurora Meredith is the daughter of the village blacksmith. Because she has a promising voice, her fa...
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A Sainted Devil
A nobleman seeks to rescue his bride, who has been kidnapped by his former lover and a bandit....
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Virtuous Sinners
A near-forgotten film, Virtuous Sinners tells the story of Dawn Emerson (Wanda Hawley), an abused wi...
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Sigrid Holmquist
The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent fi...
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Behind Natacha Rambova's Shadow
The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaug...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...
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Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover
When a young Italian named Rudolfo Guglielmi found his way to America, he became Rudolph Valentino, ...
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A Rogue's Romance
A welcome guest of the French aristocracy, Monsieur Picard having been awarded the Croix De Guerre, ...
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Death Scenes 2
DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration into the dark recesses of violence and rage that ended in ...
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Seventeen
Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt....
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The Isle of Love
A 1922 re-edit of Fred J. Balshofer’s earlier feature—shot in 1918 as Over the Rhine and released in...
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