The Sheik, starring a smoldering Italian immigrant named Rudolph Valentino in the title role, helped make Valentino Hollywood's first sex symbol — and introduced an exotic, erotic character to ...

Silent film actor and sex symbol Valentino died in 1926 at age 31. Socialite and philanthropist Duke died at the home in 1993 at age 80, having owned Falcon Lair for 40 years.

Valentino's films "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "The Sheik" broke attendance records and stirred a frenzy in female fans. Shortly after the 1921 release of "The Sheik," men who had a ...

Valentino Fall 2020 Haute Couture Was a Wedding Aisle—in the Sky. ... White as the toile, a symbol of the workmanship and dedication, the first step in the construction process ...

Plenty of men over the decades have been sex symbols. Even as far back as the 1920s, women were drooling over Rudolph Valentino, who was known as "The Great Lover of the Silver Screen." ...

The hysteria following Valentino’s death did not abate, and when The Son of the Sheik was released nationally months later, it was acclaimed as one of his best movies—a swan song of ...