Ramon Novarro
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Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office
Novarro, c. 1925
Novarro with Joan Crawford in Across to Singapore (1928)
Novarro with Lupe Vélez in Laughing Boy (1934)
Hollywood Walk of Fame star
Rudolph Valentino
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Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or just as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer. Dubbed the Latin Lover, he
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…box-office attractions of the 1920s and early '30s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino. He is recognized as the first Latin American actor to succeed in Hollywood. Novarro was born Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899, in Durango City…
Valentino as a child, published in Photoplay, January 1923
Valentino in Taranto before he departed for America, 1913
Line 12 of the manifest shows that on December 9, 1913, 18-year-old Valentino departed Genoa aboard the S.S. Cleveland.
Valentino in a portrait inscribed to socialite Aimée Crocker Gouraud, 1916