Nickname:	Rudolph Valentino / Rodolph Valentino / Rudolph Valentine / The Sheik
Known for:	The Son of the Sheik, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Eagle
Birth name:	Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla
Birthday:	6 May 1895, Castellaneta, Italy
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Ranked #80 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] A portion of Irving Boulevard in Hollywood, California, was renamed Rudolph Valentino Street in 1978. Published a thin volume of sentimental poetry titled "Day Dreams" in 1923. The book sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Following his untimely death, a bogus, composite photograph of Valentino ascending up to heaven was released for sale, and was snatched up by his legion of fans. Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Clara Bow, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Zasu Pitts, Harold Lloyd, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Kops. At the time of his death, Valentino was severely in debt, and his heirs could not afford a burial plot for him. June Mathis, friend and screenwriter of Rudy's hit films The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Blood and Sand (1922), graciously agreed to temporarily loan him a space in her family crypt at Hollywood Park Cemetery so he could be interred upon his body's arrival in Los Angeles following a coast-to-coast funeral train ride from New York. Mathis died the following year and Valentino's body was moved into her husband's space. He is still interred there today as all memorial plans fell through during the depression. At the height of his popularity, Valentino went on a brief sojurn in his native Italy to visit friends and family and, in general, to get a much-needed rest. When he returned to Hollywood, friends asked him if he'd been mobbed by fans while on vacation. Valentino said no, explaining that, "over there, I look like every other Italian fellow on the street." He was voted the 32nd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Is mentioned in the The Bangles hit song (written by Prince) "Manic Monday". Was paired with Nita Naldi in four movies: Blood and Sand (1922), A Sainted Devil (1924), The Hooded Falcon (1924) and Cobra (1925). In the 1930s, Sheik Condoms, named after his most famous role, were introduced and feature Valentino's silhouette on the packaging for years. The Rudolph Valentino Film Festival, held in Los Angeles, CA was created in his honor. In 2009, a novel, based on the idea of Rudolph Valentino living to the age of 110 was published as, "Conversations with Rodolfo" by Hala Pickford.

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