The Sheik (film)
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The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou. It was b
The Sheik with Agnes Ayres and Rudolph Valentino, movie poster, 1921
Rudolph Valentino as Sheik Ahmed and Agnes Ayres as Lady Diana.
The Sheik commands his new captive to obey him.
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
The Sheik (film)
…The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou. It was based on the bestselling 1919 romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull and was adapted…
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