In 1977 dancer Rudolf Nureyev played the ill-fated star on the big screen in ”Valentino,” and the following year a section of Irving Boulevard in Hollywood was renamed Rudolph Valentino Street.

After Valentino’s death of a perforated ulcer at the age of 31 on Aug. 23, 1926, “Horsemen” was cut down by nearly 30 minutes, mainly to get in more showings of the film.

Stuart Holmes, who appeared with Rudolph Valentino in 1921's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," dismissed Rudy's much-touted magnetism by saying, "All he thought about was Italian food. He'd ...

Rudolph Valentino Biopic In the Works From ‘Ace Ventura’ Composer. Robert Folk is set to score and produce a film starring Isabella Rossellini and Franco Nero.

Twin Peaks alum Sherilyn Fenn is set in the lead role of silent film star Madame Alla Nazimova in Silent Life, an indie biopic about Rudolph Valentino (a.k.a. Hollywood's original Latin Lover ...

Another idol was Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) who had a short life and a short time on the screen. He hade his first movie, "My Official Wife," in 1914, just three years after Bushman's first ...

The name of silent film actress Jean Acker may not ring a bell, but that of her ex-husband, screen legend Rudolph Valentino, likely does. He had the distinction of being a 1920s sex symbol and ...

The legend of Rudolph Valentino, the story of Gloria Swanson`s meteoric rise to fame and the scandal involving Roscoe ”Fatty” Arbuckle are some of the topics touched upon in ”Hollywood: The ...

Claim: Rudolph Valentino died from eating food prepared in aluminum cookware. Status: False. Origins: Some things never change. In the 1920s, as now, people spread spurious rumors about the ...

Rudolph Valentino, a silent film star, was one of the original sex symbols of the 1920s. Although an Italian actor, he was dubbed the “Latin Lover.” In the Chicago Tribune’s archi… ...