Posted by
Townhall Movie Girl on Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:52:03 PM
He is heartbreakingly handsome.
He died too young.
One of his final movies revealed that had he lived longer and transcended the transition from silent movie to talkies – and yes, his English was decent enough that he may have managed this – we would have seen such a fine talent.
One still looks at him and the heart quickens…the breath goes short…a woman feels what women before her did in those grand palaces or some small town cinema during the golden silent years of Hollywood.
If there was a true movie god it was Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi.
We know him as Rudolph Valentino.
Thank you Italy for sending him to us and here is my Hubba-Hubba for the day. Enjoy the photographs and the videos at: http://tiny.cc/NLcvV.