Word: valentino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Nita Naldi, 59, who as a girl named Donna Dooley in a New Jersey convent dreamed of becoming a new Theda Bara, was plucked from a Broadway chorus line by John Barrymore in 1919 and within five years was vamping Rudolph Valentino in such passionate pantomimes as Blood and Sand and Cobra; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Billed as a distant relative to Dante's Beatrice, she had an answer for women who asked the stock question: "How did it feel to be kissed by Valentino?" Said she: "He was a real heman, but the poor darling...
...snarled at Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," he taught the talkies how to swear. And when he slapped Norma Shearer's face in A Free Soul (1931), he slapped into obsolescence the smooth and courtly Valentino school of hand-kissing elegance. "Perhaps," said Norma Shearer last week, "that was where Noel Coward got the idea for his line: 'Every woman should be hit regularly-like a gong.' And for that sort of thing it was Gable who made villains popular. Instead of the audience...
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Rudolph Valentino's final film, Son of the Sheik, opens a summer series of condensed silent sagas. This one co-stars Vilma Banky...
...Glorious Fourth. He grows up to become J. Ward Moorehouse, public relations counsel, and U.S.A. surrounds his story with those of others who enter into his life, and with a variety of historical material: biographies of figures from the period--the Wright brothers, Eugene V. Debs, Rudolph Valentino, Henry Ford, the Unknown Soldier among others--songs, dances, newspaper headlines and stories, stream-of consciousness narrative of actual events...
Philip Harvey, more than any other member of the cast, catches the tone and stance and spirit of each of his roles. Pompously orating as a retiring governor, nonchalantly executing dance steps while talking with Moorehouse, Harvey reaches a high point in the Valentino biography. Standing alone and scarcely moving, he maintains interest through a lengthy speech, shaping it well, building excitement and tension excellently...