Valentina 1919 The avalanche of articles published recently on Valentine's Day, little can be added to the simple, sincere self-description as did Rudy dall'interessantissimo document is reproduced here.
Nothing could be more eloquent in its skeletal bareness of this leaflet penned from the hand of Valentine, for purely professional reasons, without any form of pimping and unbiased reclamistici. It's like a living, breathing piece of the fingers of the great actor.
Norman Kerry brought Rudolph Valentino to the study of Universal Picture Corporation and presented to the directors. There, in Rudy gave the usual form to fill out and as you can see he wrote in pencil this frank, intelligent description of himself. Rudolph was not then, that a boy student and eager to succeed: he was a schoolboy, a runner, a wonderful dancer, but he was not given in the previous films the opportunity to prove. He had worked in East
sometimes playing small parts, but it was not until the fate and Universal gave him the papers to fill, which had, for the first time, a chance. How he prove it
his prowess is demonstrated by recent events. They disappeared men of politics and science, fires and earthquakes have shaken the earth, but none of this has raised half of regret, which resulted in the world, the death of Valentino.
So it ended that career, principalities, with the document and posted above is right when he says Barzini, ii he went quickly like a meteor: it arose, has triumphed, has died. GABRIELLA
AMATI, 1927
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November 15, 1919 - THE WORLD PICTURES - Biography
1. Name: Rodolph Valentino.
2. Current address: Valencia, Los Angeles.
3. Birthplace: Taranto (Italy).
4.Residenza: Taranto (Italy) home.
5. Where did you spend the largest part of your life: In Italy.
6. Where you studied: Perugia, Military College.
7. How long:
8. Where have committed high school: Perugia, Military College.
9. What other courses you have attended: Naval Academy in Venice.
10. Age: 24y.o. - Complexion: Olive - Height: feet and eighty-eight and a half - Weight: Centocinquantaquattro lbs.
11. What color are your eyes: Brown. - How are in the picture: blacks.
12. What is the color of your hair: blacks. - How are in the picture: blacks.
13. What are your attitudes and your inclinations: athletics, reading good books, I speak French, Italian, English and English.
14. What is your nickname: Rudy.
15. What are your favorite writers and books: D'Annunzio, Dante, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Verlaine, Ibanez, Galsworthy, Tennyson.
16. You are married (to actress? - Who?) Is known as purchased from your marriage or with the art?): No.
17. What are your favorite sports: horse riding, car racing, fox hunting.
18. What is your greatest aspiration: Agricultural Science.
19. What was the most important episode of your life before or after entering the film industry: the journey made by Rome to Naples driving my Fiat 120 HP won the race, the Italian consul and say that I had dropped from aviation to visual defect.
20. Come from the theater? How, when you began your career and your current artistic position: I spent three years with Joan Sawyer and Banna Glavs forming with them the dance troupe of Vaudeville. These pure tango lesson with the famous Nijinsky of Russian Ballet.
21. Were your parents artists? No, my father was a doctor in bacteriology after his retirement from the Army.
22. What do you prefer the theater or art changes and why? The films for the performance of which one is forced to move and outdoors. Theatre for possible applause.
23. Why have you decided the film career? Cinema tired because I tried the life of dance halls. Finally I was hired because they are a 'type'.
24. How long have you in Cinematography? For two and a half years.
25. With which company you began your work? With Universal, Griffith, Ince, Clara Kimball Young-, Vitagraph.
26. Which parts were you assigned? Young actor, and of strong character and read expressions.
27. If you wrote any scenario, subject, or to quote the book title: I wrote one but has not yet been filmed.
28. What other activities have expressed itself in the film business?
29. What movie you decreed a more successful? Out of Luck
with Dorothy Gish.
30. Give each piece of information that can remind you about the film interpreted: Ambition
with Dorothy Phillips;
The Delicious Little Devil ,
The Big Little person with Mae Murray;
The Eyes of Youth with Clara Kimball Young.
31. Other information - became "Agronomist" at the Military College of Agriculture of Genoa. I was in the U.S. in 1913 at the age of 18 years with the intention of giving me the Agriculture. My father was Captain of Cavalry Italian doctor degree in bacteriology. He studied malaria and was itself affected by the experience. I would have been very well received in the Royal Corps of British Airmen but was rejected for defective vision.