Rodolfo Valentino: avventure amorose [Rodolfo Valentino: amorous adventures]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1944.
Title
Rodolfo Valentino: avventure amorose [Rodolfo Valentino: amorous adventures]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1944.
Description
Published in the same year as the autobiography of Casanova, q.v., the advertisement for this work (on the back cover of the Casanova) noted not only "i suoi trionfi, i suoi amori" (his triumphs and his love affairs) but also "la sua tragica fine" (his tragic end).
His "tragic end" was death at age 31 of a ruptured ulcer. Pola Negri, his Polish lover of the time, was inconsolable; and dozens of suicide attempts by fans, some of whom, in apparent hysterical fury, stormed the Frank B. Campell funeral home on West 66th Street to get a glimpse of this matinee idol, perhaps Hollywood's first male sex symbol. The funeral in New York at St. Malachy's church on West 49th Street (attended by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and other stars of the era) was followed by another in Hollywood.
Valentino was born Rodolfo Guglielmi in 1895 in Castellaneta, Taranto province, in Puglia.
By this point in 1944, De Martino seems to have been honored by becoming a "Cav." or Cavaliere, something that the prominenti like him seemed to have craved, although he doesn't often use that title on others of his works published by the IBC.
His "tragic end" was death at age 31 of a ruptured ulcer. Pola Negri, his Polish lover of the time, was inconsolable; and dozens of suicide attempts by fans, some of whom, in apparent hysterical fury, stormed the Frank B. Campell funeral home on West 66th Street to get a glimpse of this matinee idol, perhaps Hollywood's first male sex symbol. The funeral in New York at St. Malachy's church on West 49th Street (attended by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and other stars of the era) was followed by another in Hollywood.
Valentino was born Rodolfo Guglielmi in 1895 in Castellaneta, Taranto province, in Puglia.
By this point in 1944, De Martino seems to have been honored by becoming a "Cav." or Cavaliere, something that the prominenti like him seemed to have craved, although he doesn't often use that title on others of his works published by the IBC.
Creator
Cav. D. M. [Antonio De Martino?]
Publisher
Italian Book Company
Date
1944
Format
19 x 13cm; 121 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Cav. D. M. [Antonio De Martino?], “Rodolfo Valentino: avventure amorose [Rodolfo Valentino: amorous adventures]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1944.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 20, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/146.
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