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
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
Taxi dancer
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A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a ballroom dance. Taxi dancers work on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United
Rudolph Valentino
…helped redefine male stardom during the silent era. Often referred to as the first Latin Lover and the Great Lover, Valentino began his career as a taxi dancer, later moving into ballroom dancing, before he achieved breakthrough success with the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), which popularized…
Poster for the film Ten Cents a Dance (1931) with Barbara Stanwyck as a taxi dancer
Lobby card for The Taxi Dancer (1927)