Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Rock Hudson Doc Is a Compassionate (and Juicy) Look at the Hidden Life of a Gay Star https://jezebel.com/rock-hudson-documentary-review-1850586866 #Jezebel #rudolphvalentino #billmisenheimer #tomsantopietro #talesofthecity #jenniferjones #jameskirchick #socialissues #stephenkijak #henrywillson #lgbthistory #joecarberry #nancyreagan #rockhudson #tabhunter #kenmaley #mcmillan #reading #hudson #gaymen #hbo

Giornata di merda, ripariamo facendo circolare qualche bel bacio di quella meravigliosa, ingabbiata creatura che era Rudolph Valentino
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101 years ago:
Beyond the Rocks (US)
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
1922-05-07
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/53231
#BeyondtheRocks #RudolphValentino #GloriaSwanson #PreCode #ClassicMovies

104 years ago:
The Delicious Little Devil (US)
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
1919-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/151831
#TheDeliciousLittleDevil #RudolphValentino #Universal #PreCode #ClassicFilm

#OTD 1923, Dublin's La Scala Theatre was showing The Conquering Power (US: Metro, 1921), directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry, based on Balzac's novel Eugénie Grandet. Images: Freeman's Journal, IMDb and Wikipedia. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #TheConqueringPower #RexIngram #RudolphValentino #AliceTerry

101 years ago:
Moran of the Lady Letty (US)
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty daughter of the Letty's captain. Mor...
1922-02-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/126578
#MoranoftheLadyLetty #GeorgeMelford #RudolphValentino #WilliamBoyd #PreCode #ClassicFilm #Movies

Pearl Goals

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"The Silence of the Femmes"

It is often said that the USA is the land of reinvention.

Identity in America has been malleable and saleable for centuries, whether it be fake preachers and prophets, or incoming congressmen claiming to be the progeny of Holocaust survivors.

Yet nowhere allows, indeed encourages, self-reinvention like Hollywood.

Read more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2023/01/05/the-silence-of-the-femmes/

#Hollywood #SilentScreen #CharlieChaplin #RudolphValentino #AramintaDurfee #PolaNegri

The 1921 silent version of Camille starring Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino has been overshadowed by the 1936 Greta Garbo filom. The 1921 version is in many ways a much more extraordinary movie.

It's a bizarre masterpiece, but it is a masterpiece.

The real star of the film is art director/costume designer Natacha Rambova. It’s one of the most visually stunning movies ever made

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2021/08/camille-1921.html

#AllaNazimova #RudolphValentino #silentfilms #NatachaRambova #FilmMastodon

@nicosteiner Oui, une période complètement folle, artistiquement et socialement parlant.. Tout à fait passionnante.

"Les Quatre cavaliers de l'Apocalypse" (1921) est un des films de Valentino que j'apprécie le plus. Film assez incroyable pour l'époque...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQsKjQl_suI

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