Rudolph Valentino’s Death – Cause and Date
The movie actor Rudolph Valentino died at the age of 31. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Romantic silent film superstar who appeared in the 1921 film, The Sheik. His other notable films include Blood and Sand, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and The Eagle.
He married actress Jean Acker in 1919 despite the fact that he was gay and she was in a lesbian love triangle with actresses Grace Darmond and Alla Nazimova.
Quotes
"The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn’t dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
"Some of the tributes that have affected me the most have come from my ‘fans’ – friends – men, women, and little children. God bless them. Indeed, I feel that my recovery has been greatly advanced by the encouragement given me by everyone.
"If the Italian is the most passionate lover in the world, it may be because he is the most restrained. Rigid convention denies him all contact with the lovelier girls, who never are free from chaperons.
"Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
"I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.