The Sheik, starring a smoldering Italian immigrant named Rudolph Valentino in the title role, helped make Valentino Hollywood's first sex symbol... Valentino's Sheik: An 'Other' Made to Swoon Over In ...

It is not the sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener’s job in Manhattan’s ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover".

A crowd gathers on the sidewalk outside the Liberty Theater, 718 W. Riverside Ave., to see “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph Valentino. The 1921 film, which reached Spokane in November of that year, built ...

Fans of silent film star Rudolph Valentino gathered at a Hollywood cemetery over the weekend to mark 99 years since his death. This weekend marked the 99th anniversary of the death of the silent film ...

Independent Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres) spurns a marriage proposal and sets off into the Arabian desert, where her appearance in an Arab dancer’s costume excites the desire of Ahmed Ben Hassan ...

Italian-born actor Rudolph Valentino poses in costume in The Sheik. The Sheik romances a reluctant Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres) in George Melford's 1921 film. In 1921, a silent film transported ...