2022
Search results
Sep 14, 2021 · Unlucky Star: The Brief, Bombastic Life of Rudolph Valentino. The silent-film heartthrob’s short but extraordinary career is retold in delicious detail in Emily W. Leider’s Dark Lover: The ...
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) Actor. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:01. The Son of the Sheik (1926) 1 Video. 99+ Photos. Hollywood's original Latin Lover, a term that was invented for Rudolph Valentino by Hollywood moguls.
- Actor, Producer
- May 6, 1895
- 2 min
- August 23, 1926
Born in 1895 to a French mother and Italian father, Rudolph Valentino grew up in Italy. His father died while he was young, and his mother spoiled him. He did poorly in school and eventually ended up studying agriculture. After a stint in Paris, he returned to Italy broke.
- May 6, 1895
- August 23, 1926
May 11, 2003 · The Lives of Rudolph Valentino. Onscreen, Valentino looks less likely to devour anyone than to be swallowed up. By Thomas Mallon. May 11, 2003. Illustration by Ana Juan.
- Thomas Mallon
- Immigrated to United States
- Became A Star
- A New Image
- An Untimely Death
- Further Reading
By 1913, after the death of his father, Valentino moved to New York, passing through Ellis Island. He worked at odd jobs after the military turned him down because of his inadequate physique. One of his first positions was working as a landscape gardener on the Long Islandestate of Cornelius Bliss. After he lost this job, Valentino worked alternate...
Despite his failed marriage and minor film roles, Valentino's potential did not go unnoticed. June Mathis, a screen-writer and executive at Metro film studio, suggested casting Valentino as Julio Desnoyers, in a film version of the epic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The role made Valentino an instant star, and saved Metro from near bankruptc...
Valentino's next four projects were not big box office successes. Though Valentino's wife, Rambova, helped him get an increase in salary (to $7500 per week) as well as some creative input on his films, many believed that she ruined his career by picking noncommercial projects. As silent film expert Koszarski wrote in The New York Times, "Natacha Ra...
Son of the Sheik was to be Valentino's last film. While on a promotional tour, he collapsed at a party in New York. He was promptly hospitalized at the Polyclinic Hospital and underwent surgery. Just as he appeared to be recuperating, Valentino took a turn for the worse. When his female fans got word of his impending death, the hospital received 20...
American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, Oxford UniversityPress, 1999. Cassell Companion to Cinema,Cassell, 1994. International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers-3: Actors and Actresses,third edition, edited by Amy L. Unterburger, St. James Press. Thomson, David, A Biographical Dictionary of Film,third edition, Al...
People also ask
Who is Rudolph Valentino?
What happened to Rudolph Valentino?
Is Rudolph Valentino still a legend?
What movies did Rudolph Valentino make?
Apr 19, 2019 · Updated on 04/19/19. One of Hollywood's most legendary silent-era stars, Rudolph Valentino, was also a significant industry trailblazer. Born Rodolfo Alfonso Rafaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D’Antonguolla in 1895 in Castellaneta, Italy, the man who would eventually be known as Rudolph Valentino immigrated to the United States ...
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and ...
