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Valentino as a boy. Valentino was born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy and named Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella. [2] His father, Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, was an Italian from Martina Franca, Apulia; he was a captain of cavalry in the Italian Army, later a veterinarian, [3] who died of malaria when Valentino ...
Photograph published 1923. June Mathis was born June Beulah Hughes in Leadville, Colorado, the only child of Virginia Ruth and Dr. Philip Hughes.Her parents divorced when she was seven and her mother remarried to William D. Mathis, a widower with three children whose name she would eventually adopt as a stage name.
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]
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 ...
Valentino, whose parents were French and Italian, had a distinctly-Latin look that was not used much in pictures at the time. [14] However, Mathis got her way, and after seeing the rushes, she and Ingram decided to expand the role of Julio to showcase the talents of Valentino. Valentino had worked as a taxi dancer during his time in New York ...
Jean Acker (born Harriet Ackers; October 23, 1892 – August 16, 1978) was an American actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s. She was perhaps best known as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino.
Justin Baldoni’s rise to fame wouldn’t be complete without a supportive family by his side. The actor gained popularity after playing Rafael Solano on Jane the Virgin from 2014 to 2019.
In 1977, Nureyev played Rudolph Valentino in Ken Russell's film Valentino. In 1978, he appeared as a guest star on the television series The Muppet Show [95] where he danced in a parody called "Swine Lake", sang "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in a sauna duet with Miss Piggy, and sang and tap-danced in the show's finale, "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails".