Word: valentino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jack Dunn, 21, sleek, handsome British Olympic skater; of terminal pneumonia brought on by tularemia (also known as deer fly or rabbit fever); in Hollywood. Last month he got his first part-to play Rudolph Valentino in a scheduled cinema on the life of the late star, who died just as unexpectedly twelve years...
...University is having review day today, transporting grads back to their childhood with Valentino's "Son of the Shiek." "Roberts" with Dunne, Astaire and Rogers is on the same bill. Tomorrow brings "Divorce of Lady X," a sophisticated English comedy, with Merle Oberon very attractive in Technicolor. And it will be worth sitting through half of "College Swing" to see Martha Raye, with a French accent, singing "Howja Like to Love...
Rodolfo Guglielmi, born May 6, 1895, in the little Italian village of Castellaneta, died August 23, 1926, in New York, as Rudolph Valentino. Last and best Valentino picture-a sequel to the one which had made his reputation five years before -was The Son of the Sheik, which grossed $2,500,000 after his death. Last year, Producer Joe Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation, which made the picture, sold the negative, along with some 30 other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik...
...Sheik was at Chicago's Garrick Theatre, where it did more business than any other show in town except Holiday, accompanied by Tommy Dorsey's swing band. Garrick audiences were apparently about evenly divided between middle-aged women and young girls who had heard about Rudy Valentino from their mothers. Wrote one lady patron to the theatre's manager: "I loved him, I loved him, I loved him-I still love him." This week The Son of the Sheik is scheduled to play in 16 cities, including Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Next week...
...permitted the most famed matinee idol in cinema history to play a dual role-the Sheik and the Sheik's son, who is finally rescued by the Sheik from a cutthroat gang. Immediate consequence of its successful revival was naturally a race between proprietors of other old Valentino pictures to get their products to the screen. Also on view was The Sheik (1921), which, as an example of an even cruder school of cinema production, was exhibited in a mood of frank burlesque, with a bald-headed pianist thumping out The Sheik of Araby to make the audience laugh...