With his swarthy good looks and elegant bearing, Rudolph Valentino was the greatest matinee idol of the silent screen. During the height of the Valentino craze, one glimpse of his melancholy gaze ...

Rudolph Valentino died of complications from a perforated ... At the right speed and with color tints, the movie no longer looks primitive or embryonic. Zukor's studio knew what they were doing.

But nothing prepared them for Rudolph Valentino’s performance that year in Rex Ingram’s acclaimed “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” As Julio, the charming wastrel grandson of a ...

The Sheik starred a smoldering Italian immigrant named Rudolph Valentino and featured a title character who bore little resemblance to the venerated Arab leaders commonly known as sheiks.