Title

Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik",1921

Caption

Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik", 1921, (1935). Portrait of Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), film actor born in Italy, one of the first 'Hollywood heartthrobs'. Valentino arrived in the United States in 1913 and found fame as a film star and sex symbol of the 1920s. When he died at the age of 31, of complications after surgery for appendicitis and gastric ulcers, 100,000 people lined the streets of Manhattan in New York to pay their respects at his funeral. From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]

Date

1935

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F24_033

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,9Mb (1,7Mb) / 13,3in x 17,2in / 3983 x 5168 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian people male man men arts country entertainment still book guy costume British film Arab Hollywood dress cinema location century movie Britain thirties literature concept ruler sheikh acting performing arts twenties B&W actor moving picture MONOCHROME sex symbol actress movie star United States of America cinematography Thespian black & white black and white B W 1930s 1920s heartthrob 20th century American America USA The Print Collector film star sheik Valentino Rudolph Valentino matinee idol photograph portrait silent cinema film still united states The Sheikh young man Unknown Rudolph Odhams Press Ltd The Silver Jubilee Book Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Guglielmi Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella d'Antonguella Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina Guglielmi Rodolfo Pietr photograph portrait