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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/beyond-paradise-the-life-of-ramon-novarro/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Pt.3: Gay Love Affairs Novarro/Valentino/Ingram Unfounded Rumors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, Trifling Women Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blames Catholicism Ramon Novarro's extant films for Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), in which he plays the sly villain Rupert of Hentzau, and Scaramouche (1923), in the heroic title role, are also well worth a look. I haven't watched The Arab (1924), which has been recently brought back to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-gay-love-affair-valentino-rumor-rex-ingram/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Brutal Death Pt.2: Convicted Killer Blamed Catholicism</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:06:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35616</guid> <description><![CDATA[Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968 Paul Ferguson, in a letter he wrote me at the time I was working on Beyond Paradise, blamed his Catholic background for Ramon Novarro's death: &#34;When [Novarro] kissed me, I reacted like a Catholic, what they call homosexual panic. Some old guy in the desert says, 'Kill homosexuals.' It's inbred. . . . I was too [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-killer-paul-ferguson-ben-hur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Star Ramon Novarro Brutally Killed Halloween Eve 1968</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:05:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35620</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro Earlier today, after sharing on Facebook a photo of Greta Garbo dressed in Balinese costume in the 1931 blockbuster Mata Hari, I began thinking about 1920s and 1930s Mexican-born MGM star Ramon Novarro (photo), the subject of the biography I wrote several years back, Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. Mata Hari was one of the biggest box-office hits in the careers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Elizabeth Taylor: James Dean Sexually Molested by Minister &#8211; Fact or BS?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/elizabeth-taylor-james-dean-sexually-molested-minister/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/elizabeth-taylor-james-dean-sexually-molested-minister/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26727</guid> <description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean in George Stevens' Giant Elizabeth Taylor died two days ago, her remains were laid to rest yesterday, and a revelation about Taylor's past was made public today. Well, in all truth, the revelation is actually about James Dean's past. Taylor is the alleged vehicle for a story published in The Daily Beast by actor-writer Kevin Sessums, among whose credits are an [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/elizabeth-taylor-james-dean-sexually-molested-minister/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rex Ingram: Launched Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:16:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=307</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rex Ingram (top); Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, in Ingram's Trifling Women (bottom) St. Patrick's Day always reminds me of silent-era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent-era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche, Mare Nostrum, The Magician, and The Garden of Allah, and whose birth &#8212; as Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock &#8212; took place in Dublin on Jan. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/rex-ingram-remembered/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro in SCARAMOUCHE on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-scaramouche-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-scaramouche-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:33:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25213</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro in Rex Ingram's Scaramouche Ramon Novarro is back for the fourth and last installment of Turner Classic Movies' Sunday evening celebration of the 100 years of the Mexican Revolution. Tonight, Novarro's vehicle is Scaramouche (1923), one of his most prestigious critical and box-office hits, and one featuring another revolution, the one in France back in the late 18th century. Directed by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-scaramouche-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro&#039;s THE RED LILY, Pedro Infante&#039;s LAS MUJERES DE MI GENERAL on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-red-lily-pedro-infante-las-mujeres-de-mi-general-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-red-lily-pedro-infante-las-mujeres-de-mi-general-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:46:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25181</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, The Red Lily Early Mexican-born screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro is back on Turner Classic Movies this evening with a presentation of Fred Niblo's silent melodrama The Red Lily (1924). That will be followed by another Ismael Rodríguez effort, Las mujeres de mi general (&#34;The Women of My General&#34;), a 1951 starring Mexican icon Pedro Infante as a rebel general torn between [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-red-lily-pedro-infante-las-mujeres-de-mi-general-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer&#039;s THE STUDENT PRINCE, Pedro Infante&#039;s MEXICANOS AL GRITO DE GUERRA on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-student-prince-pedro-infante-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-student-prince-pedro-infante-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:23:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25151</guid> <description><![CDATA[Norma Shearer, Ramon Novarro, Jean Hersholt in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg Turner Classic Movies' Hispanic Heritage Month celebration continues with the showing of one silent film starring Mexican heartthrob Ramon Novarro, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), and the Mexican period drama Mexicanos al grito de guerra (1943), starring Mexican cinema's superstar Pedro Infante. Deftly directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-the-student-prince-pedro-infante-mexicanos-al-grito-de-guerra/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Bio Pt.2: Gay Murder Scandal Obscured Professional Legacy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-bio-gay-murder-scandal/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-bio-gay-murder-scandal/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:13:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35638</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro BEYOND PARADISE: THE LIFE OF RAMON NOVARRO Pt.1 Yet, despite his professional accomplishments &#8212; film critics both liked and respected him &#8212; Ramon Novarro's most enduring claim to fame is his violent death: His nude, bloodied corpse was found in his Hollywood Hills house on Halloween 1968, in what has become one of the most infamous Hollywood scandals. An ardent Catholic who more [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-bio-gay-murder-scandal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ramon Novarro Biography BEYOND PARADISE in Paperback</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:11:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35640</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro, The Cat and the Fiddle Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro is a film star biography I wrote several years ago. The book tells the story of the first Latin American performer to become a major Hollywood star, Ramon Novarro. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, Novarro arrived in Hollywood in 1916, a refugee from the civil wars [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ramon-novarro-biography-beyond-paradise/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Actress Dorothy Janis Dies: One of the Last Silent Screen Performers</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dorothy-janis-dies-silent-movies-591/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dorothy-janis-dies-silent-movies-591/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:04:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23225</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Janis, The Pagan Dorothy Janis, who made a few film appearances at the dawn of the sound era and was the widow of bandleader Wayne King, died Wednesday morning in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley, according to musician Lew Williams, who received the news from Janis' granddaughter. Janis, one of the last surviving performers to have played at least one major [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/dorothy-janis-dies-silent-movies-591/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BEYOND PARADISE: THE LIFE OF RAMON NOVARRO</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:16:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ramon Novarro, Greta Garbo, Mata Hari Among the Mexican-born Ramon Novarro's best-known movies are Rex Ingram's The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), Scaramouche (1923), and The Arab (1924), all three featuring Ingram's wife, Alice Terry; Fred Niblo's worldwide blockbuster Ben-Hur (1925), with May McAvoy; Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), with Norma Shearer; and W.S. Van Dyke's The Pagan (1929). Also: George Fitzmaurice's [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/beyond-paradise-ramon-novarro/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
