Rudolph Valentino

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, professionally known as Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), was an Italian actor who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, 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,^[2] which occurred at age 31, causing mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelling him into iconic status.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph Valentino
• Page 36 - Bahn, P., 2014, The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 166p.