write a few weeks later:
Rudolph Valentino was a promise for the cinema. Better yet, a promise kept.But the attention of the Courier does not stop at post mortem celebratory reviews, gossip could not miss:
Now, admiring his films feel her heart by an infinite sadness. It
The Young Rajah there is that its pretty one that stands out among many: in the face and composed and noble in his turban, glittering deep and mysterious beautiful eyes, so as to convey in the splendor of our sun and the sea divinely blue, went out in the sadness of a clean room of the hospital: there, far away: infinitely: too much for this man who loved his country.
beautiful film: scenes luxurious, according to the taste and the use of the Paramount. Good the interpretation of all. We - I say we, Italians - we were unfair to this man. We called him a renegade: We gave him a love of blindness in the country, the injury that only Admiral Montecuccoli could boast. And I humbly ask forgiveness daughters.
And give flowers every year in memory of Rudolph Valentino, who took on the screens of each country with a lively and radiant light, her beauty, her intelligence of Italian. Myosotis
(Il Corriere Film, September 11, 1926)
Rudolph Valentino's will form subject of new comments on this actor who died, who has completely forgotten his first wife and left with the second (Natacha Rambova) the legacy of a dollar!Far from late mea culpa and gossip, the Neapolitan Guglielmo Giannini, director of Kines, in a review of the film The Black Eagle , offers what I think is one of the best reflections on the phenomenon Rudolph Valentino:
E 'is well known that Miss Hudmut (this is the real name of the second wife of Valentine) is the daughter of a multimillionaire perfumer, so the legacy of one dollar must have been, the intention of the deceased, a meaning which escapes us.
Newspapers ensure that the assets of the Day (divided between his brother, Alberto, and his sister, and uncle's second wife), do not step up to fifteen pounds that, whereas before there was talk of many millions.
Valentino's will contested
Alberto Guglielmi, brother of Rudolph Valentino, it seems - from what the newspapers - that he intends to contest the will of the late artist. It is said that, contrary to what was published before, that the fortune of Rudolph Valentino roams towards the two million dollars. Will not it? ...
(Il Corriere Film, September 18, 1926)
not discuss the deaths, and are actually much weight Novissima and this impression of a critic who has to judge a body.
We have found defects in this effort of the great Italian artist, even if there is someone, we realized. In seeing life and smile that beautiful shade of a handsome young man, we could not entirely forget that Valentine is not over and that his eyes have the flashes only by virtue of a mechanical marvel. But overcome this painful feeling, we must agree that the stage play by Valentino is great, and that in any new film we see ever more efficient and semplicizzarsi. The art of film has lost not only beautiful, but also a great actor.
