Valentino is a 1977 American biographical film co-written and directed by Ken Russell and starring Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, and Carol Kane. It is loosely based on the life of silent film actor Rudolph Valentino, as recounted in the book Valentino, an Intimate Exposé of the Sheik, written by Chaw Mank and Brad Steiger.

He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin 's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick 's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch 's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated ...

After several years playing mostly supporting roles – including some oily villains – Valentino unexpectedly skyrocketed to superstardom on the heels of the 1921 blockbusters The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik.

Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son ...

He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for ...

Oct 6, 1977 · When Rudolf Nureyev, who plays Valentino with a fierce sense of style, is abused or insulted, he looks magnificent.

Mar 9, 2016 · Controversial British director Ken Russell tells the story of one of the silver screen's greatest legends, Rudolph Valentino, in this wildly colourful biopic starring the world’s most celebrated dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, in the title role.

The greatest male attraction in exotic, adventurous romantic pictures was handsome, hot-blooded Italian-born import Rudolph Valentino, after his breakthrough appearance in the famous tango scene in director Rex Ingram's spectacle The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921).

Aug 5, 2019 · Delirious biopic on the legendary silent screen star Rudolph Valentino (Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer), the Italian immigrant from humble beginnings whose meteoric rise to fame as the iconic Hollywood silent star and the most famous Latin lover of his day came crashing down with the 31-year-old’s death in 1926 from a ruptured appendix ...

Moran of the Lady Letty is strong evidence as to why Rudolph Valentino remains a silent-era icon as late as the twenty-first century. As for the other features on this set, Stolen Moments (1920) is every bit the overplayed melodrama by which silent cinema is too often represented.