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Rudolph Valentino. Actor: The Eagle. Hollywood's original Latin Lover, a term that was invented for Rudolph Valentino by Hollywood moguls. Alla Nazimova's friend Natacha Rambova (nee Winifred Hudnut) became romantically involved with Rudy and they lived together in her bungalow from 1921 (during the filming of Camille) until they eloped to Mexico on May 13, 1922 believing that his divorce from ...
- Actor, Producer
- May 6, 1895
- 2 min
- August 23, 1926
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- Cast
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It is a romantic biopic of the actor Rodolfo Valentino, or Rudolph Valentinoas he is better known, who arrives in the United States from Italy and soon becomes a movie star. He falls in love with an actress and dies at an early age.
Edward Small had announced the project in 1938, with Jack Dunn first mooted to play the title role as a follow-up to his debut in The Duke of West Point.However the film had been delayed by script troubles, legal threats, the war, troubles making a movie with the lead character was Italian, and looking for the right actor to play the lead.
Reviews were mostly poor. The film was one of Edward Small's few box-office failures.However, it did well in South America where Anthony Dexter went on a dancing tour. It was announced that Dexter would appear in a remake of The Sheik (1921), the rights for which Small had purchased in order to show segments of that film in Valentino. However, he o...
Valentino at IMDbValentino at the TCM Movie Database- $1.3 million
- Edward Small
Sep 14, 2021 · The silent-film heartthrob’s short but extraordinary career is retold in delicious detail in Emily W. Leider’s ‘Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino.’
This "Valentino" story is mainly the "love triangle" formed by Dexter, Parker, and Carlson. The "love triangles" formed in Valentino's real life would have made a much more interesting movie! **** Valentino (1951) Lewis Allen ~ Anthony Dexter, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson. 5 out of 8 found this helpful.
Valentino (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Woman Must Learn To Surrender On a ship from Naples shortly after World War I, unknown Anthony Dexter (title character) plays unknown dancer "Rudy," visiting top-billed Eleanor Parker as "Susan Grey," who is not a historical character, early in Hollywood's first pass at a biography of the matinee idol ...
- Lewis Allen, Emmett Emerson
- Eleanor Parker
Valentino (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Woman Must Learn To Surrender On a ship from Naples shortly after World War I, unknown Anthony Dexter (title character) plays unknown dancer "Rudy," visiting top-billed Eleanor Parker as "Susan Grey," who is not a historical character, early in Hollywood's first pass at a biography of the matinee idol ...
Valentino is a 1977 American biographical film co-written and directed by Ken Russell and starring Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, and Carol Kane. It is loosely based on the life of silent film actor Rudolph Valentino, as recounted in the book Valentino, an Intimate Exposé of the Sheik, written by Chaw Mank and Brad Steiger .
