Rudolph Valentino

Early life


Childhood
Valentino was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D'Antonguolla in Castellaneta Puglia Kingdom of Italy. In 1925 he gave out his one and only medal to John Barrymore for his performance in Beau Brummel. "
Famous Players produced four more feature length films over the next 15 months.

He had applied for American citizenship shortly before his death. A sex symbol of the 1920s Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". Rudolph Valentino (May 6 1895 – August 23 1926) was an Italian actor known simply as "Valentino" and also an early pop icon.