Word: valentino
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Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A chance to see again the patent-leather locks of Rudolph Valentino, in The Eagle...
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...
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...