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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 who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.
Publicity photograph of Rudolph Valentino and his dog. Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926) was an Italian-born actor in the era of silent films. [1] He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and took a string of temporary menial jobs before becoming a film extra in 1914. [2]
The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou. It was based on the bestselling 1919 romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull and was adapted for the screen by Monte M. Katterjohn. The film ...
Jul. 21—A crowd gathers on the sidewalk outside the Liberty Theater, 718 W. Riverside Ave., to see "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino. The 1921 film, which reached Spokane in November of ...
[9] [10] Mathis had seen a young actor named Rudolph Valentino in a bit part of a Clara Kimball Young film, Eyes of Youth, in 1919. [11] [12] Valentino had arrived in Hollywood in 1918, where he had worked in many B movies, including All Night with Carmel Myers and The Delicious Little Devil with Mae Murray. [13]
In an effort to capitalize on the success that Valentino had achieved with The Sheik, United Artists' president Joseph M. Schenck bought the rights to Edith Maude Hull's novel Son of the Sheik and cast Valentino in the dual role of father and son. [2] [9] Valentino was paid $100,000. The director was paid $75,000 and Frances Marion $25,000. [10]
It was only licensed for a handful of movies, including the famous Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rankin and Bass stop-motion special from 1964 — the one with Hermey the elf and the Island of ...
Rudolph Valentino, the original "Latin lover", who epitomized the type Charles Boyer, creator of the French lover cliché Antonio Banderas, one of the latest incarnations of the type. Latin lover is a stereotypical stock character, part of the Hollywood star system. It appeared for the first time in Hollywood in the 1920s and, for the most part ...