Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) became one of the great romantic idols of Hollywood's silent movie era. He helped to define what a star should be, and represented the screen's first "Latin lover." His early death, at the age of 31, only increased his...

"The Great Lover" was the nickname given to Rudolph Valentino when he became a motion picture star in 1919. While the nickname is still synonymous with Valentino, his last name is sufficient to evoke the same picture, that of a handsome, suave man who...

Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. In the 1920s, Valentino was known as a Latin sex...

Emily W. Leider 514 pgs.; $35 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Stuart Holmes, who appeared with Rudolph Valentino in 1921's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," dismissed Rudy's much-touted magnetism by saying: "All he thought about was Italian food. He'd turn those big...

He was born in Castellanata in Italy in 1895, the year the cinema, too, was born. And just as the medium in which he would make his reputation initially saddled itself with such top-heavy names as kinetoscope and praxinoscope and the next-to-unpronouncable phenakitoscope before...

During the early years of motion pictures, theaters across the country shunned studio-produced promotional displays and instead hired their own artists to paint movie posters that would better entice ticket buyers.Because they had to work ahead of the film's schedule, most of the artists never...

Today is Thursday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2007. There are 130 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery....