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Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Jan 16, 2023 · Ramon Novarro was a leading man in the silent film era, but in 1968 he was brutally murdered for being gay. This is the story of his tragic death.
Ramon Novarro. Actor: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ramon Novarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899 in Durango, Mexico, to Leonor (Gavilan) and Dr. Mariano N. Samaniego Siqueiros, a prosperous dentist.
Aug 24, 2003 · On the evening of Oct. 30, 1968, Ramon Novarro, once one of Hollywood’s greatest romantic idols, now 68 and frail, looking like “a Spanish grandee” in a red and blue robe, opened the door of ...
Oct 13, 2020 · The life of matinee idol Ramon Novarro was bookended by immense stardom on one end and then, in his very last breaths, immense tragedy. On October 30, 1968, the secret he tried so desperately to hide throughout his glamorous career came out in one infamous, violent act.
Ramon Novarro. Actor: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ramon Novarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899 in Durango, Mexico, to Leonor (Gavilan) and Dr. Mariano N. Samaniego Siqueiros, a prosperous dentist.
Feb 7, 2014 · Ramon Novarro's remembered more today for his death than for his life, which began 115 years ago today, on February 6, 1899, in Durango, Mexico. It was there that Novarro, born...
May 11, 2003 · Ramon Novarro's 1968 murder, with its scandalous homophobic overtones, has tended to obscure his place in film history as Hollywood's first Latin American leading man.
André Soares’ Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro recounts the tragic story of gay Hollywood star Ramon Novarro, best remembered for playing the title character in the mammoth silent era blockbuster Ben-Hur and for his brutal death on Halloween eve 1968.
Mexico native Ramon Novarro (born Jose Ramon Gil Samaniego, February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968) was a Hollywood film and television actor. He was a major star and matinee idol of 1920s Silent through early 1930s "talkies" cinema.
