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On August 15, 1926, thousands of fans mobbed the Polyclinic hospital in Modern York City where Rudolph Valentino had just died after a bout of acute appendicitis, perforated ulcers and peritonitis. In the week before his passing, letters, telegrams, calls and gifts flooded into the hospital as he battled for his experience. Updates on his health were given to the push at regular intervals by his doctors. Ten thousand showed up the time after he died and had to be corralled by 150 policemen. The mob turned hysterical when doors to the Frank E. Campbell funeral parlor were opened, smashing windows in their fervor to find inside; many people were injured. The hysteria continued the following day as 200,000 lined up to view his body, with weeping women wearing widows’ weeds. As mourners tried to rip locks of hair off the body, the coffin was closed. The actress Pola Negri, claiming to be Valentino’s fiancée, screamed and fainted in front of his coffin and the attendant photographers.
Crowds in the thousands were outside St. Malachy’s church for the funeral ceremony, and then Valentino’s body was taken to Hollywood on a coach for another funeral attended by Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, Ma
| Rudolph Valentino | |
| Birth name: | Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | May 6, 1895(1895-05-6,) |
| Birth location: | Castellaneta, Italy |
| Date of death: | August 23, 1926 (aged 31) |
| Death location: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse: | Jean Acker (1919-1923) Natacha Rambova (1923-1926) |
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italianactor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. He was introduced to acting after fleeing New York Town following a number of legal difficulties and eventually traveling to San Francisco and meeting actor Norman Kerry, who urged him to pursue a cinema career. Valentino challenged the typical depiction of masculinity, the All American, equitable, light-eyed man. His image was threatening and would cause other men to shun him and actors to refuse to serve with such a nature. His ominous image led journalists to regularly phone his masculinity (and his sexuality) into question. In the 1920s, Valentino was known as a Latin sex symbol. Women loved him and thought him t
Born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla in Italy, he arrived in the US in 1913 and eventually became a taxi dancer and instructor, and eventually, an exhibition dancer. He made his way across the region to California, where he played a number of small parts in silent movies. He was memorable enough to be cast as the lead in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(1921); the motion picture was a success and made him a celebrity. Later the same year, The Sheikmade him a legend.
In 1926, he collapsed with a perforated ulcer; after an apparently achieving operation peritonitis set in and 8 days later, the greatest romantic hero of the silent era was dead. He was just 31 and had been a star for a mere five years.
100,000 distraught women swarmed his funeral, and many rumours abound, but male audiences were offended by Valentino's extravagant dress, colourful spats, make-up, and willingness to display his body on screen. Valentino disrupted his era's rigid codes of sex and gender.
Although his legendary star status is assured, his legacy of work died with the silent film era and while he retains an extrao
Wife Jean Acker, Natacha Rambova
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Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), professionally acknowledged as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian actor in America 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.
He was an first pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino".[1] His premature death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled him to iconic status.
In 1919—just before the rise of his career—Valentino impulsively married actress Jean Acker, who was emotionally attached with actresses Grace Darmond and Alla Nazimova. Acker became involved with Valentino in part to eliminate herself from the sapphic love triang
The “Latin Lover” and His Enemies
Rudolph Valentino fought a prolonged battle against innuendo about his masculinity right up until he died. But now he seems to have won
With the Roaring Twenties in full swing and the first talkies on the horizon, Hollywood’s booming film industry already had its divide of bankable stars—Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton. But in the summer of 1926, an Italian immigrant named Rodolfo Alfonso Rafaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D’Antonguolla would join them. Acknowledged as the “Latin Lover,” Rudolph Valentino would, by summer’s end, single-handedly modify the way generations of men and women thought about sex and seduction.
It’s sad Valentino never live to watch that autumn. And it’s sadder that he spent his final weeks engaged in an indecorous feud with an anonymous editorialist who had questioned his masculinity and blamed him for America’s “degeneration into effeminacy.”
Born in Castellaneta, Italy, in 1895, Valentino arrived at Ellis Island in 1913, at the age of 18. He lived on the streets and in Central Park until he picked up work as a taxi dancer at Maxim’s Restaurant-Caberet, becoming a “tango pirate” and sp