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On the evening of November 28, 1923 Madison Square Garden was transformed from a sports arena packed with rowdy boxing fans, to a gala venue with the George White orchestra performing and an audience dressed in gowns and tuxedos awaiting the entrance of silent film icon, Rudolph Valentino and his "Eighty-Eight American Beauties". A national beauty pageant was underway as the culmination of a year of local contests which were part of Valentino'...

Fictionalized versions of Rudolph Valentino's story plagued the star even before his death. His employers in the motion picture industry contributed to the problem by issuing stock press releases of his life story, carefully crafted as marketing. In the months prior to his death in 1926, Valentino became determined to have his true story told. Working with Spanish journalist Baltasar Fernández Cué, he launched a project to pen his authorized a...

In 1926, Leonard De Fonte came to America from Italy as a seventeen-year old hoping to shake the hand of his screen idol, Rudolph Valentino. Valentino would die before Leonard could achieve his goal but his subsequent life would be guided by his original quest to meet Valentino.This is Leonard De Fonte's autobiography in which he recounts how he arrived in the United States to shake hands with his "paesano" Rudolph Valentino. An intense, passi...

Until this publication, Jeanne De Recqueville's 1978, Rudolph Valentino has only been available in French and copies of her book are scarce. Her book has always been a source of curiosity for Valentino afficianados as Ms. De Recqueville was a Valentino activist in France for some thirty years, appearing as a Valentino authority on television and in documentaries in her role as the President and founder of "The Association of the Friends of Rud...

In August of 1925, silent film icon Rudolph Valentino and his second wife Natacha Rambova separated in advance of their bitter divorce a few months later. In the weeks following their highly-publicized separation, Natacha Rambova sought refuge in spiritualism and the occult. She attended séances, studied theosophy and made the acquaintance of a deep-trance medium and psychic, George Wehner. Although George Wehner would become Rambova's constan...

Who was Natacha Rambova, the woman often referred to as "Hollywood's most hated woman"? As the despised wife of silent film heart-throb Rudolph Valentino, she never censored her hatred of Hollywood although she achieved renown there as an art director. Despite the success of her Art Deco set designs, her beguiling beauty and alleged control over Valentino was the subject of his fans' boisterous outrage. When Rambova left Valentino in 1925 to f...

On August 23rd, 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died unexpectedly at thirty-one-years of age. His sudden death inspired mass hysteria among his fans. His grieving fans were not the only ones to mourn. His business manager and close friend, George Ullman, was appointed executor of Valentino's estate and faced the daunting task of settling the movie star's complex postmortem affairs. In this role, Ullman would find himself a key charact...

Silent film star, Rudolph Valentino, spent the first nine years of his life in Castellaneta, a small city in southeastern Italy. This is the story of his Castellaneta years, a detailed, authoritative account of his essential familial, cultural, historical and even geographical influences. Author and native of Castellaneta, Aurelio Miccoli reveals "Rodolfo", as a curious yet difficult boy and daydreamer. This stunning, accurate narrative is ric...

In the days following the sudden death of Rudolph Valentino in 1926, his business manager and closest friend, George Ullman published a book titled, Valentino As I Knew Him. Before his own death in 1975, Ullman wrote a personal memoir about his life "behind-the-scenes" with Rudy. This memoir is a treasure trove of new anecdotes and information about the movie star's personal and business affairs.Lamentably, Ullman was, and still is, targeted b...

As a sixty year old gay gentleman from Los Angeles, Ethan Garrett returns to his home town in Tennessee to care for his ailing mother. There he becomes the victim of a brutal hate crime. His recovery results in mental derangement, prescription drug addiction and a journey to an Ayurveda Center in Sri Lanka. From the war-torn jungles of Sri Lanka to the drug culture of a mental health facility in Southern California, Ethan Garrett battles for h...

The case file of Rudolph Valentino's probate court records has been missing from its lawful location in the Los Angeles County Hall of Records for decades. With no access to these documents, those endeavoring to tell the tale of the lengthy settlement of the movie star's estate have relied upon surmise and speculation unsupported by facts and figures. As a result, this aspect of Rudolph Valentino's life story has remained a fractionalized, mea...

When silent film icon Rudolph Valentino penned this book of poetry in 1923, he was waging a 'one man strike' against his studio demanding higher quality production standards for his films. While he struggled to find a solution to this employment impasse, he delved into the occult and spiritualism and wrote his Daydreams poems. Shortly after Valentino's sudden death in 1926, his ex-wife, Natacha Rambova claimed her husband was adept at receivin...

La prima biografia in italiano di Rodolfo Valentino. Le Stelle e i Divi di Hollywood sono ben conosciuti anche per gli scandali che riescono a generare e la Stella del cinema muto Rodolfo Valentino non si discosta da questa tradizione. La Zumaya ha investito ben 15 anni in accurate ricerche sia sulla vita di Valentino sia all'interno della ristretta cerchia di chi gli era vicino, in modo particolare sul ruolo avuto dal suo caro amico ed ammin...

Il Mito del cinema muto Rodolfo Valentino, trascorse i primi nove anni della propria vita nella cittadina pugliese di Castellaneta. Qui si narra la storia dei suoi anni castellanetani, un dettagliato e autorevole racconto di quanto la sua famiglia, la cultura del periodo, gli eventi storici e l'ambiente lo abbiano influenzato. L'autore di questo libro è un concittadino di Valentino essendo anche lui nato e cresciuto a Castellaneta, Aurelio Mic...