Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was an Italian actor based in the United States 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. He was an early pop icon, and a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the Latin Lover (a title invented for him by Hollywood moguls) and The Great Lover. His premature death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his fans and further propelled his status as a cultural film icon Gelatin silver print by Russell Ball, 1925.
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