Great Lover Rudolph Valentino

Silent Movie Mystery and Great Lover Rudolph Valentino.

Rudolph Valentino was one of the most Charismatic  Movie Star in Film industry.  He had a fame of great lover in the 1920's. Valentino acted in silent films where his movements; his dances charmed all women. Let's say he had a mystery with those movies when we added Valentino in them.  He was surely a romantic lover as you look his personal life.

Valentino grew up Italy in a small town. He wanted to see the world. When Rudolph Valentino was only 18 years old, he first went to Paris, and then he came to New York. He had worked as a gardener or dishwasher for 4 or 5 years. Then Valentino realised, while the clubs he worked in as the dishwasher, those old women paid good money to have the young men tango with them. He learned the tango in several weeks. He then worked as a nightclub dancer.  Valentino entered a national touring production, but it failed in Utah. The young performer then made his way to San Francisco where he continued his dancing career. Valentino decided to go to Hollywood in 1917 as an actor.
He started in secondary roles as a villain, gigolo or foreign seducer.

He met actress Jean Acker while he was filming. He had romantic feelings for her. He offered her a marriage proposal, but he didn't know, Jean Acker had a romantic relationship with a woman before. She was gay. They got married, but Jean Acker refused Valentino on their first wedding night. She realised she made a mistake. She locked herself in the hotel room and would not let Valentino in.

Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino - 

Beyond The Rocks (1922).

With several problems, an unhappy first marriage, he wasn't quite satisfied with the film industry, Valentino almost quit. Fortunately, Valentino caught the attention of screenwriter June Mathis. He was the perfect choice for the lead role for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921). He captured the hearts of female audience by dancing the tango in his first scene in the film. The movie was a box office hit.

Tango Scene - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921).

Valentino had a cameo in the film Camille, and he met with his second wife, Natasha Rambova. Natasha was the stage designer of that movie. Natasha was the love of his life, and she made the Rudolph Valentino name even grander. She helped him to create Valentino image on the screen. Let me say; the woman redesigned Valentino again. She had never been satisfied with the movies he was in. It was cultural junk for her. She tried to force the Hollywood directors for more artistic movies with her husband, Rudolph. Hollywood was a male industry, and men didn't like women telling them their business.

After Valentino had met with Natasha, he got the lead role in The Sheik. This movie made him a total sex idol in the eyes of women. Men were jealous, and women were in love with him. He played an Arabian Sheik; he was masculine, sexy man, a macho but the sheik had a soft heart for the female character he loved. It was different than the ideal classic men in movies in that time, but all women love this vigorous man on the screen.

Rudolph Valentin and Agnes Ayres - The Sheik (1921).

Valentino had another astronomical success with Blood and Sand. This time around, he played bullfighter who falls under the spell of a beautiful seductress.

Valentino's reputation improved with his arrest for bigamy in 1922. He had to wait a full year for divorce from Jean Acker, but he failed to wait before remarrying to Natasha Rambova. He was taken to jail and forced to pay the penalty for his 1922 wedding to actress and set designer Natasha Rambova in Mexico. Later the pair remarried the following year. Valentino also published a collection of poetry named Day Dreams around this time, a work which reflected the couple's interest in Spiritualism.

Rudolph Valentino and Natasha Rambova.

Rambova took a dominant role in managing her husband's career. Valentino got lots of criticism because of that. He wanted to be more of a family man with children, but Natasha wasn't ready, and she wanted to focus on her career more. Eventually, they broke up as a couple. It was a sad romance story. Mrs Valentino left her husband alone, and they divorced.

Valentino returned to the kind of fare that made him famous. The Eagle(1925) featured him as a Russian soldier seeking to avenge the wrongs committed against his family by the Czarina.

Rudolph Valentino - The Eagle (1925).

The following year, Valentino made a sequel of sorts to his earlier hit, The Son of the Sheik. This silent classic proved to be his last work. After completed The Son of the Sheik, in the film's promotional tour, he got sick in his hotel room.

Rudolp Valentino and Vilma Bánky - The Son of the Sheik (1926).

Valentino had to be delivered to a New York hospital, where he had surgery on August 15, 1926, to treat acute appendicitis and ulcers. In the days after the surgery, Valentino received an infection known as peritonitis. The 31-year-old actor's health quickly began to decline. Valentino died nearly a week after entering the hospital, on August 23, 1926.

He left all his women fans heartbroken; everybody was in shock of his sudden death. He continued to get fan mail even after his death, and there was also a mysterious woman with black clothes and veil who had begun to visit his tomb and continued to go for years, and nobody knew the identity of this women.

He was a pop icon with total charisma. He shined through his appearances on the big screen. He had left this world at very early age, but his charm continued.