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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Rudolph Valentino</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/rudolph-valentino/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 05:29:41 +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>Arabs in Hollywood Movies on TCM: THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, THE SHEIK</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/arabs-hollywood-movies-the-thief-of-bagdad-the-sheik/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/arabs-hollywood-movies-the-thief-of-bagdad-the-sheik/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:21:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27351</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres in George Melford's The Sheik Long before they became Hollywood's favorite terrorists, Arabs were generally portrayed as lusty, uncouth, infantile beings in myriad Hollywood movies. Turner Classic Movies returns this month with their annual &#34;Race &#38; Hollywood&#34; film series. The &#34;race&#34; this time around: Arabs. Frank Lloyd's long but generally entertaining 1924 epic The Sea Hawk is almost over. TCM has [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/arabs-hollywood-movies-the-thief-of-bagdad-the-sheik/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BLOOD AND SAND Review Pt.2 &#8211; d: Fred Niblo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-review-fred-niblo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-review-fred-niblo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:07:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27245</guid> <description><![CDATA[BLOOD AND SAND Review Part 1 Yet, despite Nita Naldi's effectiveness, Rudolph Valentino is the real star of Blood and Sand, creating a remarkable portrayal of a complex, multi-layered character. In one early scene, for instance, his friend Chiripa (Antonio Flores) is gored by the bull and dies in Gallardo's arms; Gallardo cradles the dying man and kisses him tenderly on the cheek. Later, when [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-review-fred-niblo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BLOOD AND SAND Review &#8211; Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Lila Lee</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-rudolph-valentino-nita-naldi/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-rudolph-valentino-nita-naldi/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27244</guid> <description><![CDATA[BLOOD AND SAND (1922) Direction: Fred Niblo Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, Rosa Rosanova, Walter Long, Charles Belcher, Leo White, Rosita Marstini Screenplay: June Mathis; from Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel, and Tom Cushing's play Recommended Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Blood and Sand Bullfighting has never appealed to me, so I approached Fred Niblo's Blood and Sand with caution. Now that I've seen it, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/blood-and-sand-rudolph-valentino-nita-naldi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rudolph Valentino Birthday Celebration at Hollywood Heritage Museum</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-blood-and-sand-hollywood-heritage-museum/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-blood-and-sand-hollywood-heritage-museum/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:32:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26782</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rudolph Valentino, Blood and Sand Hollywood Heritage will celebrate Rudolph Valentino's birthday on Wednesday, May 11. The event will include screenings of the abridged version of Blood and Sand (1922) and the short Rudolph Valentino and His 88 American Beauties; rare photographs and artifacts on display in the lobby of the Hollywood Heritage Museum; and the presence of Donna Hill, author of Rudolph Valentino, The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-blood-and-sand-hollywood-heritage-museum/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>Rudolph Valentino in THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:58:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24883</guid> <description><![CDATA[Star Rudolph Valentino (foreground, left), extra and future star Ramon Novarro (third from the right), and Rose Dione holding the French tricolor in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (click on the photo to enlarge it) Directed by Rex Ingram, and starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry, the silent-era blockbuster The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will be screened on Tuesday, July 20, at 7:30 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/rudolph-valentino-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/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>Marsha Hunt Discusses Anthony Dexter</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marsha-hunt-anthony-dexter/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marsha-hunt-anthony-dexter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:38:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15085</guid> <description><![CDATA[In his blog, Allan Ellenberger speaks with Marsha Hunt about Anthony Dexter, who played Rudolph Valentino in the 1951 biopic Valentino (right), and with whom Hunt co-starred in a stage production of The King and I. Here are a couple of quotes: &#34;Of course I remember Valentino. By the age of eight I had already seen The Sheik and his films with Vilma Banky. Valentino [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marsha-hunt-anthony-dexter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>10</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rudolph Valentino at the Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/kansas-silent-film-festival-rudolph-valentino/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/kansas-silent-film-festival-rudolph-valentino/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:46:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15180</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009: Feb. 27 Saturday &#8211; Feb. 28, 2009 Morning &#8211; starts at 9 a.m. Feature: The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) Mary Pickford (65 min.) This is the feature film that put little Mary Pickford on the map as a star. She was known before, but this one put her name above the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/kansas-silent-film-festival-rudolph-valentino/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lost Pola Negri Film Found</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/pola-negri-film-discovered/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/pola-negri-film-discovered/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:29:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6137</guid> <description><![CDATA[The News/Polskie Radio reports that an early (and thus far unnamed) Pola Negri vehicle has been discovered at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia by the husband-and-wife team of Marek and Malgorzata Hendrykowski from Poznan University. Dating from the 1910s, the Polish production is a detective story set in Warsaw. The print has Italian subtitles and is said to be in good condition. Born (Barbara) Apolonia [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/pola-negri-film-discovered/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pioneer Female Producer June Mathis: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/june-mathis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/june-mathis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:05:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/04/01/june-mathis/</guid> <description><![CDATA[June Mathis / &#169; Allan Ellenberger Collection June Mathis. The name means nothing to most of today's filmgoers and to the vast majority of self-proclaimed film historians. Yet, nearly nine decades ago June Mathis was, next to Mary Pickford, one of the two most powerful women in Hollywood. "She fairly lives and breathes motion pictures," reported the New York Morning Telegraph in February 1924, "and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/june-mathis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rudolph Valentino&#039;s Falcon Lair for Sale</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/rudolph-valentino-falcon-lair-for-sale/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/rudolph-valentino-falcon-lair-for-sale/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:31:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=279</guid> <description><![CDATA[TheStreet.com reports that Rudolph Valentino's mansion, Falcon Lair, located in the hills above Benedict Canyon overlooking Beverly Hills, is up for sale &#8212; for those who can shell out US$7.95 million. Valentino, the star of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik, bought the house for $175,000 (approx. $2 million adjusting for inflation) in 1925. Billionairess Doris Duke owned the house for nearly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/rudolph-valentino-falcon-lair-for-sale/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>12</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rudolph Valentino Death and Legacy: THE VALENTINO MYSTIQUE by Allan Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/the-valentino-mystique-by-allan-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/the-valentino-mystique-by-allan-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:19:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/the-valentino-mystique-by-allan-ellenberger/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Allan R. Ellenberger's meticulously researched The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol (McFarland &#38; Company) describes in great detail the circumstances surrounding Rudolph Valentino's death in 1926. The star of the blockbusters The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik was only 31 years old. Allan &#8212; I've known him for quite some time &#8212; also discusses the aftermath [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/the-valentino-mystique-by-allan-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
