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    Ramon Novarro

    Mexican-American actor

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0003895Ramon Novarro - IMDb

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. May 24, 2012 · Ramon Novarro's problems with alcohol were well-documented during his lifetime, but his sexual proclivities, an open secret in Hollywood circles, had been closely guarded from the public.

  8. Sep 3, 2020 · That man was Hollywoods Latin lover, Ramon Novarro. His murder brought his sexuality out in the open, something he had taken pains to hide throughout his career, and he inadvertently became a symbol of gay Hollywood. Jose Ramon Gil Samaniego was born in 1899 in Durango, Mexico.

  9. 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.

  10. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ: Directed by Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram. With Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson. A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.

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