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Rudolph Valentino interpreter Claudia Particle Benito Mussolini

Rudolph Valentino, Arturo Ambrosio, Emil Jannings, Rome 1923

begin this space dedicated to Rudolph Valentino with a little controversy. Controversy because I've never been able to clarify what really happened with the project to bring to the screen Claudia particle, a novel by Benito Mussolini serialized in the newspaper The People of Trento in 1910. If you want to know more about the novel you can consult the web where the references are not lacking. For what it refers to the film project was born in 1923, things are not so simple. How

remember all biography of Rudolph Valentino, 1923, marks his return to Italy after nearly a decade of absence: "We present our readers a rare photo of the representatives of the three Powers film (from left to right) the great Emilio Janning German actor who plays Nero in Rome of the UCI (1) - Comm Director Arturo Ambrosio January Artistic UCI recently awarded the Knight's Cross of St. Maurice and Lazarus - Rudolph Valentino, the famous Italian-American actor traveling in Italy, which are known film interpretations and amorous adventures, captured all three of the lens against the backdrop of Nero's development studios in the Union of Italian Film in Rome. Does she want this photograph to be looking forward to a great future of Italian cinema? E 'will tell us what the near future. " (cinema, November 4, 1923)
(1) Clearly this is Emil Jannings, who plays the role of Nero in Quo Vadis ? for The Union of Italian Film.

of this visit to the theaters of the Union of Italian Film biographies of Valentino offer almost all the same version, without naming either Arturo Ambrosio, a pioneer of Italian cinema, no Emil Jannings. I recall that at this time Joseph Jar, head of the Union of Italian Film, tries to negotiate David W. Griffith during his stay in Italy.

few years later, in 1938, CB in the name of Arturo Ambrosio said further details on this meeting foreshadowing of the 'future of Italian cinema, "and with regard to the photograph says:" After completing the Quo Vadis? , Ambrosio is preparing to organize a magnificent new film: he had read a historical novel by Claudia Particle Mussolini, he was excited and wanted to make a movie. To this end, encouraging Rudolph Valentino America from Germany and Emil Jannings, he throws down the organizational basis and, since it will be a huge movie, demand aid for the Bank, but it pretends not to hear. Ambrosio insists, pray, is appealing to its past so full of success, try every way to make the doors open again, but gets nothing. It is so much despair and suffering that ends up getting sick. " (Film, 19 November 1938)

Skip a few years and the project back in the limelight in the book of Peter White (Bertini and the stars of silent cinema, UTET 1969) , but it seems that no one remembers seeing in 1985 Aldo Bernardini, Vittorio Martinelli (artistic director Roberto Roberti, The Pordenone Silent Film Festival 1985), publish other news completely forgetting the background: "As has been able to establish Gian Pietro Brunetta, the story dates back to 1923 and the film was never made at a later time because the leader, now prime minister, withdrew his endorsement, he found incompatible with its new image and function of such a project that was abandoned. The same Brunetta publish a photograph of the cover page of the screenplay of the film, where it is stated clearly in ink added by Mussolini himself, the words "by Roberto Leone Roberti." E 'therefore can that at first the director had accepted the proposal and had written the script, and later had declined the job. "
page of the script is the same as published 10 years earlier by Pietro Bianchi, but that of Peter White is a photograph of the original ... See reproduction below.

According to other sources, beginning with Sergio Leone, the son of Roberto Roberti (Roberto Leone Roberti), interviewed by me in 1980, Benito Mussolini was the same to reject the offer ... by the Americans.

Note for Gian Piero Brunetta: I would like a place of honor in the delivery of next Sacks Prize for this "discovery", perhaps in At the International Exhibition of Venice, I would recommend, or ask for help and Blasetti Za la Mort ... You understand me, right?