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Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer. Dubbed the Latin Lover, he became one of the most iconic stars of American silent cinema and an enduring symbol of old Hollywood glamour. Rising to international fame in the early 1920s, Valentino was celebrated for hi…
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entertainment · Italian actor (1895–1926) · actor · film actor · also Rudolph Valentino, Rodolph Valentino, Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi, Rudy Valentino
Born 6 May 1895 · Died 23 August 1926 · Q188692
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2026· 6 entries
“Mine was not a marriage. It was a ridiculous tragedy.”
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“Seventy-five per cent of the pictures shown to-day are a brazen insult to the public”
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“make real photoplays instead of making cut-and-dried program features, that can be hacked and torn and compressed into a given number of feet of film to fit so many can, like so many boxes of sardines”
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Public attention spiked: 9,120 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.9× the usual 1,158, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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Public attention spiked: 3,666 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 1,158, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 2 entries
Moviefone: Rudolph Valentino and His 88 American Beauties (1923) - Where to Watch
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Yahoo: Rudolph Valentino’s Valentine: how Natacha Rambova became Hollywood’s greatest lover
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2023· 1 entry
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady In Black U
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2020· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Rudolph Valentino
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2018· 1 entry
Vladislav Alex Kozlov had been set to play Valentino and direct an upcoming indie biopic Silent Life, with Franco Nero playing Valentino's spirit
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2015· 1 entry
Valentino is a supporting character in the fifth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story
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2013· 1 entry
Valentino is played by actor/director Alex Monty Canawati in the motion picture Return to Babylon
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2009· 1 entry
Fondazione Rodolfo Valentino was created to promote his life and his work
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2006· 2 entries
And the property was then put back on the market
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A one-off film festival was planned to celebrate the opening of the Museo Rodolfo Valentino
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2002· 1 entry
The film was discovered by the Netherlands Film Museum and a restored version was released on DVD in 2006
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1994· 2 entries
An opera by Dominick Argento (libretto by Charles Nolte) entitled The Dream of Valentino was premiered by the Washington National Opera in the District of Columbia
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Valentino was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
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1986· 1 entry
The French TV channel FR3 produced the television movie Série portrait, Rudolph Valentino, with Frédéric Norbert as Valentino
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1978· 1 entry
A portion of Irving Boulevard, where it meets Paramount Studios, in Hollywood, was renamed Valentino Place
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1977· 1 entry
Ken Russell's film Valentino, Rudolf Nureyev portrays Valentino
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1975· 1 entry
American Broadcasting Company produced the television movie The Legend of Valentino, with Franco Nero as Valentino
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1964· 1 entry
Freddie Hart recorded a ballad titled "Valentino
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1934· 1 entry
The California District Court of Appeal decision on Valentino estate reversed a Los Angeles probate court ruling against Ullman, finding that he had managed the estate effectively
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1930· 1 entry
Ullman denied accusations of mismanagement brought by Valentino's siblings, asserting that the estate had been heavily in debt at the time of Valentino's death and that his administration had restored its financial stabi
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1927· 1 entry
Underwent facial reconstruction surgery in hopes of following in Valentino's footsteps and pursuing a career as a Hollywood actor
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1926· 6 entries
At the Hall of Art Studios in Hollywood, under the direction of his estate executor S
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Died 1926-08-23.
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Valentino collapsed shortly before noon in his apartment at the Hotel Ambassador on Park Avenue in Manhattan
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Was granted a divorce on the grounds of abandonment
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Until the 1960s, Valentino's sexuality was not generally questioned in print
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At the age of 31 from complications of peritonitis following surgery for appendicitis and gastric ulcers triggered mass public mourning, cementing his status as a legendary figure of early cinema
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1925· 3 entries
Established a film award recognizing artistic achievement, the Rudolph Valentino Medal, which was a precursor to the Academy Award
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Rambova went to New York to prepare for the release of her first film, What Price Beauty
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Gave out his only medal to actor John Barrymore for his performance in the 1924 film Beau Brummel
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1924· 1 entry
Starred in A Sainted Devil, now one of his lost films
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1923· 2 entries
While in New York City, Valentino made his only two vocal recordings for Brunswick Records; "Kashmiri Song" (The Sheik) and "El Relicario" (Blood and Sand)
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Valentino published a book of poetry titled Day Dreams
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1922· 2 entries
In Mexicali, Mexico, which resulted in Valentino's arrest for bigamy, since he had obtained only an interlocutory decree of divorce and not a final divorce judgment (which could be obtained only after an year had passed
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What he thought of Valentino, replied, "Many other men desire to be another Douglas Fairbanks
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1921· 2 entries
Each accusing the other of desertion, circumstances had shifted
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And became a commercial and critical success
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1920· 1 entry
Staying with friends in Greenwich Village, eventually settling in Bayside, Queens
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1919· 2 entries
Shortly after midnight, Valentino married actress Jean Acker in Hollywood during a party held for Richard A
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Applied for an acting position at Universal Studios, stating that he had entered motion pictures because he was "tired of ballroom dancing"
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1917· 1 entry
Valentino joined an operetta company that traveled to Utah, where it disbanded
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1916· 2 entries
Valentino was arrested alongside Mrs
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Including The Quest of Life, The Foolish Virgin and Seventeen
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1914· 1 entry
Reconnected with acquaintances he had known in Paris—Otto von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Alex von Salm-Hoogstraeten, and Georges (George T
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1913· 1 entry
18-year-old Valentino departed Genoa aboard the S
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1912· 1 entry
At 17, Valentino left home for Paris and Monte Carlo, where he led a bohemian life—learning the then-controversial tango, socializing within fashionable circles, and quickly exhausting his savings
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-05-06.
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1889· 1 entry
Was the lady-in-waiting to Marchesa Giovinazzi, Principessa Ruffo di Calabria
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