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Rudolph Valentino, the French version and the Italian version

As I wrote in one of the first post of this site, Rudolph Valentino, before his return to Italy in 1923 was not widely known, but can not be said that no one had heard of him (as someone wrote after his death). I told of the proposal to make the film Particle Claudia, it seems that the bid of Joseph Jar, head of the Union of Italian Film, Valentino did not convince. This would explain why certain hostile attitude of the press (some of the press), against him? I shall return to this later.
Valentino Let's see how he was received in France, second-home mother because her mother was French, as he liked to recall.
Even the French film press had devoted much attention to Valentino first of 1923. In France, as in Italy, was the great success of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to attract the attention of the press. Artistic merits e. .. for a change, a lot of gossip about turbulent private life.

"On a surnommé Rodolph Valentino" the idole du public américain. " Ce jeune premier remporte En effet aux Etats-Unis here a succès jusqu'à ce jour Eclipse celu remporté par n'importe autre artiste that. Son dernier film, during which the has appeared with Gloria Swanson behind the mountains, is welcomed by American audiences with genuine enthusiasm.
Valentino has just completed the bloody arena, based on the novel by Blasco Ibanez, and will start to turn Don Cesar de Bazan the Famous Players Lasky. In France
Rudolph Valentino is not well known to the public, although it appeared in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the film adapted from the novel by Blasco Ibanez, which was screened at the Vaudeville.
The history of divorce and remarriage of Rudolph Valentino's worth telling.
The artist had married a pretty young woman. John Acker (USA much women carry this man's name of John), but after some time, there was the quarrel in the household; Valentino pleaded for divorce and obtained it.
Think a leading man as Rudolph Valentino is intended not to stay long ... single. He made the experience and became enamored of a famous painter in the United States, Natasha Rambova. The latter worked with Nazimova and beautiful artist is very well known in the American film community. She fell in love
turn of Valentino and the young couple decided to marry. But ... but the law is explicit in the United States. Every divorced person must wait some time before entering new relationships. Natasha Rambova and Valentino saw themselves unable to marry. Instead be patient and wait, they devised an expedient and one day, crossed the border, because we must not forget that Los Angeles is a relatively short distance of Mexico. In the latter country, it is the law with standard facilities, and the lovers were married. Everything was for the better, at least they thought.
Alas! When they returned to Los Angeles, the sound of their marriage spread quickly. There were articles in newspapers and all the newspapers published the movie portrait of Natasha Rambova. The young couple
lived in the greatest tranquility, when one day Valentino learned that he was prosecuted for bigamy. You think if
d ^ were fighting passionately followed by the female audience in Los Angeles.
The verdict was satisfactory to everyone and even morality has some special courses in the United States. The judges have decided in effect that Valentino could not be accused of bigamy, since he was divorced and in fact have paid. But they have banned the artist to live with Natasha Rambova ... for one year. Will there be policemen on duty outside the house of Valentino, and before that of Natasha Rambova prevent lice lovers go visits?

This news was published in the journal Mon Ciné is September 14, 1922. I will spare you the Italian version of the story, published several months later, where Natacha Rambova become "a rich American heiress, Mrs. Hudnut, kidnapped by Valentine, and not a word that the artist was well known in the Rambova American cinema. What matters are the dollars
"Rudolph Valentino, the actor who for some time is found ... Featured in the chronicles worldly, artistic and sentimental, it seems he intends to form a company of its own. Following the loss of his suit against Famous Players, will not be able to work all year round for another house, since his current contract expires in the spring of 1924, hence the decision to manufacture its own account of the film, which he put on the market in 1924.
Meanwhile, the beautiful Rodolfo sings to a Society of phonographs, and he says he gets $ 10,000 for each disc, at the same time is dedicated to the manufacture of perfumes: Rudolph Valentino Parfums, the elegant America's dispute with zeal. "

The description of the character in the delivery of the readers of the most prestigious Italian film is, with slight variations from 1923 to 1925, this: "Rudolph Valentino is Italian - - South, his first profession was that the dancer in the café-concerts and cabarets, film making in America came in and did just luck because his body is very much like to stage managers over there. If we were to tell you frankly our view, we could not hide that we Valentino, as an artist, like very little. E 'with a married American heiress, with whom he escaped before marrying her. It is found today in the United States. "
After 1925, the tone will become even heavier.