Rudolph Valentino
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"Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla", professionally known as "Rudolph Valentino", was an Italy/Italian-born American actor who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)/The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik (film)/The Sheik, Blood and Sand (1922 film)/Blood and Sand, The Eagle (1925 film)/The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. An early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, he was known as the "Latin Lover" or simply as "Valentino". He had applied for American citizenship shortly before his death, which occurred at age 31, causing mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelling him into Cultural icon/iconic status.

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Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

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'The death of Valentino is a terrific loss to the screen. He brought it happiness, beauty, and art as perhaps no other has. His loss can never be replaced; there was and can be only one Valentino;a great artist and one of the finest gentlemen it has ever been my privilege to term friend.' -John Gilbert.

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What is your motto Mr. Valentino? Live and Let Live.

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I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

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"I really believe i was happier when i slept on a park bench in Central Park than during all the years of the 'perfect lover' stuff.''.

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