Biographies: Rudolph Valentino - Actor

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An Italian actor, born in Castellaneta, Puglia, Italy, as Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Rudolph Valentino married actress Jean Acker (1919-1923) and divorced her to marry actress, writer, and fashion designer Natacha Rambova (1923-1926). Among his most important works are The Sheik (1921), Blood and Sand (1922), The Eagle (1925), and The Son of the Sheik (1926). Valentino was born to an Italian father and a French mother, and because of his father’s death when he was young, his mother spoiled him. He studied agriculture and worked as a gardener in Paris. He also washed dishes before he left for New York, where he met his godfather, Frank Minnillo, who helped him find housing and a job. A scandal caused him to San Francisco, where he met Norman Kerry, who helped him work in silent films. The death of his mother shocked him, and after overcoming the shock, he met Jean Acker and married her, but she kicked him out the next morning, his wife Acker kicked him out, as she was a lesbian. For several months, he tried to restore his marriage, which lasted only 6 hours, and the divorce did not occur until 4 years later. During that time, he met Natacha Rambova. They fled together to Mexico and got married. When he returned to New York, he was arrested on charges of polygamy and divorced Natasha. He was diagnosed with appendicitis and gastric ulcers and was forced to undergo surgery, which caused peritonitis, which led to his death at the age of 31 on August 23, 1926, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

• 13 December 2023
• Toqa Hesham