Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova photographed ca. 1923.

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Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova photographed ca. 1923.

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haroldlloyds: Happy Birthday Rudolph Valentino May 6, 1895 –...

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haroldlloyds:

Happy Birthday Rudolph Valentino
May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926

Thirteen years ago, an Italian boy of eighteen, ignorant of...

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Thirteen years ago, an Italian boy of eighteen, ignorant of the English language and penniless, landed in New York, describing himself as an “agriculturist” and eager to find any work that would make him a living.

During the last week, this stranger of thirteen years ago fought a courageous battle against death, with millions of Americans literally praying for his recovery. Inquiries poured into the hospital from all sorts and conditions of men and women at the rate of twenty a minute, and crowds stood in the rain without while some forced their way into the corridors. The death bed of no monarch, no statesman, no military hero has so profoundly moved the great mass of the people. It was an amazing tribute to Rudolph Valentino and to his art.

Nothing has more impressively disclosed the marvelous hold the screen has on the popular imagination; nothing so conclusively demonstrated the part it plays in the lives of average men and women. The hero of the screen has the world for his kingdom, and he is the one monarch to whom his subjects pay tribute as a privilege. The touching story of the losing fight of Rudolph Valentino will be read with a sense of personal loss in the most humble homes of every civilized country on the globe. So much has the moving picture come to mean in the civilization of the age.

The Evening World, 1926

From the hospital in New York where the police reserves were called to disperse the crowds that gathered as if a great bell had suddenly tolled, on through the cities of the world and into the hamlets of every country, men, women and children moved with genuine grief. They mourned for something, somebody, some radiant moving entity, that had gone out of their lives.

The radio, the cables and telegraph, the telephone, the stock ticker, flashed the word of Valentino’s death from one corner of the world to the other and the newspaper presses from all the world pushed to a minor position in the newspaper editions. And such is the motion picture!

Valentino was a unique personality; somehow it was within him to say something to the world. But it was the motion picture Valentino who charmed the world. It is the motion picture that is the marvelous thing. It is greater than any of its people. It is the motion picture that stirs the world.

Let us not forget this solemn fact when we plan pictures and when we plot our trade moves and structure. There is no greater responsibility in the world today than that which rests upon the shoulders of the men who, by the chance of fate, are invested with the power of making and showing motion pictures.

William A. Johnston, “More Than a Monarch Passes”
Motion Picture News | September 18, 1926

Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova photographed ca. 1924.

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Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova photographed ca. 1924.

Blood and Sand (1922)

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Blood and Sand (1922)

Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova filmed in London before...

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Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova filmed in London before their return to America in 1923.

Promotional portrait of Rudolph Valentino for Son of the Sheik...

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Promotional portrait of Rudolph Valentino for Son of the Sheik (1926).

Rudolph Valentino reading over his lines on the set of Blood and...

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Rudolph Valentino reading over his lines on the set of Blood and Sand, 1922.

A publicity photograph of Rudolph Valentino for Blood and Sand...

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A publicity photograph of Rudolph Valentino for Blood and Sand (1922).

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Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)

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Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)

Publicity shot of Rudolph Valentino for Monsieur Beaucaire...

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Publicity shot of Rudolph Valentino for Monsieur Beaucaire (1924).

Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)

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Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)

Rudolph Valentino in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921).

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Rudolph Valentino in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921).

Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik (1921).

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Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik (1921).

A promotional headshot of Rudolph Valentino in costume for the...

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A promotional headshot of Rudolph Valentino in costume for the silent film Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1921.

Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova photographed ca. 1923.

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Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova photographed ca. 1923.

A promotional shot of Rudolph Valentino for the silent film,...

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A promotional shot of Rudolph Valentino for the silent film, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921).

Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik (1926).

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Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik (1926).