Rudolph Valentino
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| Born | Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla May 6, 1895 Castellaneta, Italy |
| Died | August 23, 1926 (aged 31) New York City, New York, USA |
| Spouse | Jean Acker (1919-1923) Natacha Rambova (1923-1926) |
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor of silent movies. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy. He became popular as one of the first sex symbols in Hollywood in the 1920s.[1]
Valentino did not live long enough to see movies with sound replace silent movies. He died of peridontis on August 23, 1926,[2] at the age of 31.
Movies [change]
- My Official Wife (1914)
- The Quest of Life (1916)
- The Foolish Virgin (uncredited) (1916)
- Seventeen (uncredited, extra) (1916)
- Alimony (1917)
- A Society Sensation (1918)
- All Night (1918)
- The Married Virgin (or Frivolous Wives; 1918)
- The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
- The Big Little Person (1919)
- A Rogue's Romance (1919)
- The Homebreake (1919)
- Out of Luck (1919)
- Virtuous Sinners (1919)
- The Fog (1919)
- Nobody Home (1919)
- The Eyes of Youth (1919)
- Stolen Moments (1920)
- An Adventuress (1920)
- The Cheater (1920)
- Passion's Playground (1920)
- Once to Every Woman (1920)
- The Wonderful Chance (1920)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- Uncharted Seas (1921)
- Conquering Power (1921)
- Camille (1921)
- The Sheik (1921)
- Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)
- Beyond the Rocks (1922)
- Blood and Sand (1922)
- The Young Rajah (1922)
- Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
- A Sainted Devil (1924)
- Cobra (1925)
- The Eagle (1925)
- The Son of the Sheik (1926)
References [change]
- ↑ Corliss, Richard (2011 [last update]). "Son of the Sheik (1926) - The Best of Valentine's Day - TIME". time.com. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1988896_1988902_1988922,00.html. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ↑ Glen Pringle and Kally Mavromatis (2011 [last update]). "Silent Star of February". csse.monash.edu.au. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/ssotm/Feb97/. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
Other websites [change]
- Rudolph Valentino homepage
- Rudolph Valentino at the Internet Movie Database
- Rudolph Valentino Yahoo discussion group
- Rudolph Valentino photo gallery at Silent Gents.
- Audio history (MP3, 17:23). Emily Leider, author of Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
- Affairs Valentino.
- Valentino biography in Spanish, Italian & English
- Rudolfo Valentino at tricolore.net
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