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‘"Those who died young’’

Part Two

Rudolph Valentino His death at 31 sparked a riot

Though Hollywood represents instant success and fan- tasy fulfillment for young adults of talent and good locks, it can be a deadly dream. Per capita, the mortality rate of Hollywood stardom rivals such callings as motor racing and war. This series profiles five of Hollywood's brightest stars

who died young, and the legends that live after them.

(From THOSE WHO DIED YOUNG by Marianne Sincicir. Copyright© 1979 by Plexus F Limi blished

He proved his determination

Penguin Books. isteibuted by the los Angeles Times Syndicate.) = * *

Rudolph Valentino was born in 1895 in Castellenata, a small town in southern Italy, to a respectable mid- dle-class family.

He arrived, full of dreams but without- an overcoat, in the freezing New York winter of 1913, not

speaking a word of |

English and carrying ail his belongings in a battered suitcase.

and his powers of seductive per-

even his all-powerful and adoring mama, to allow him to go and try his luck in America, as so many other Italians were doing at the time. :

Thus, aged only 18, Valen- tino set off on his own.

He arrived, full of dreams but without an overcoat, in the freezing New York winter of 1913, not speaking a word of

English and carrying all his ‘Bal r ered

longings in a battered suitcase.

Only:the-most: menial jobs: were -° ’

available for someone in his situation, and he did them all: messenger, refuse collector, dishwasher, laundry assistant and undergardener.

But Valentino was too attractive and too determined to go on in this way for very long. He became a nightclub dancer instead, paid by the club which employed him to ask single ladies to dance, something he learned to do with matchless grace.

It may be that he was also paid by those same ladies to perform other

y convincing his family,.

shirts and drank champagne nightly in luxurious surrounds?

It was not tobe,

Fate intervened in the person of a beautiful woman, She was a dark, passionate Latin American lady called Bianca de Saulles, whom he met on the dance floor and it was love at first tango. Unfortunately, she happened to be married to a prominent gangster.

In the drama which unfolded as a result of her affair with Rudy, she mur- dered her husband in an argument. The scandal and the court case which ensued made things uncomfortable and dangerous enough for Rudy to flee New York and to end up in 1918, in Los Angeles, ostensibly to take up farming, But there his career as nightclub dancer

* began again, and it was inevitable that:

he should start forming other ambitions in the capital of the film world. x Over the next three years, Valen- tino played a variety of small film parts, portraying villains and i

“Imagine a young man, dead at only 31, lying in state ina coffin inside a funeral chapel, his face and shoulders exposed to view .. . Imagine about 15,000 people standing outside in the pouring rain, blocking every street, with policemen trying

to hold them back.”

about Val ‘s life and who

id that Val was imp or that-he was masochistically attracted only to domineering women, though both claims were often made.

. have never seen him,in,a film know

about the riots unleashed by his death. Yet the actual story sounds almost too

The five brief ie of Val glory were much like those of many

other unsavory characters.

here is a tendency to thank of Valentino as an overnight sensation, so it comes as something of a shock to realize that he had already appeared in 17 films before "The Four Horsemen of the A ly led him to

He made a great deal of money, yet spent so much that he was always in and out of debt and was all but insolvent at the time of his death. He basked in the adulation of his fans yet came to dread their Srengys He relished being

ike

whic! Pp stardom in 1921. June Mathis, an MGM writer, had seen him in a movie called “Eyes of Youth” (1919) and had decided he would be perfect for the lead in “Four Horsemen,” an adaption of the famous Blasco Ibanez novel about a carefree

Rudy was not very dif- ferent from most, but he did happen to be better-looking, and more determined that many to escape the cramped existence that lay .in store for him if he remained at home in Castellenata.

in more dings but with equally matchless grace.

z Rudy was an instant success as a professional male dancer, and the clubs where he worked quickly became more elegant.

For several years Rudy, who by now spoke Perfect English, was one of the most fashionable and sought-after night-club dancers in New York. Would his ambition have stopped there, now that he had plenty of money, work silk

“Valentino's personal belongings were auctioned off; his handkerchiefs, ties and garters became sought-after relics... Yet even 1,000 pair of socks were not enough to satisfy popular demand. The vault where he lay wes hacked to bits and the chips were sold as souvenirs.”

Latin A aristocrat who goes out to fight for France during the First World

far. ¢ Valentino went on to make a suc- cession of. box-office hits for MGM, Paramount and his: own independent “The

Pp : g Tl Sheik” (1921), “Blood and Sand” (1922), “The Young Rajah" (1922), “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1924), “Cobra” (1925) and “The Son of the Sheik” (1926).

The films themselves varied in quality but this no longer mattered; the fans went to see Rudolph Valentino films, not to judge the picture’s worth, nor even to judge the leading actor's real merits,

They were so taken with Rudy's ap- pearance and sex appeal that they har- dly cared about his other qualities as an actor and a human being. In fact, Valen- tino could be a good actor, could project emotion with absolute sincerity, could convey gentleness as well as passion, obviously had a sense of humor about everything including himself and had tremendous athletic abilities,

Valentino exuded style and savoir faire, qualities many of his American female admirers probably found sadly lacking in their real-life sweethearts or husk He was infinitely C 1 and obviously madly experienced in the arts of love. Each of his screen loves was, a grande passion and his j expression of tender lust potently com- bined lity an i

Over the last 50 years, our taste in male sex appeal has changed. The trend is more twoard sweaty T-shirts and torn jeans than to dinner-jackets and brillian- tined hair.

Valentino may not excite today's girls and he may even strike them as a bit ridiculous; yet anyone who sees a Valentino film or just a series of stills from his pictures is struck by the actor's suave yet virile charm, by the flesh ap- peal, the aura of sexuality which never seems effeminate despite the powdered wigs of Monsieur Beaucaire or the strings of pearls he wore in The Young Rajah.

Valentino's private life was full of material comforts and ego gratification, but it was not always happy; yet it was perhaps less catastrophically unhappy than seekers after sensation and lovers of paradox have maintained.

There is nothing to support any

royalty wherever he went in America and Europe, yet year- ned to walk the streets undisturbed like any other man.

He chafed against his studios and felt both underrated and underpaid, yet fared no better when he set up indepen- dently. He quarrelled continuously with his t iful wife, ha Ramb

Valentino exuded style and savoir faire, qualities many of his American female admirers provably found sadly lacking in their real-life sweethearts or husbands. He was infinitely Continen- tal and obviously madly experienced in the arts of love.

until a point of no return was reached. So was Valentino happy? Unlike many superstars, Valentine gives the im- pression of having been a very normal man, but the abnormality of his position was beginning to take its toll on his psyche by 1926, the year of his death,

About a meeting with Valentino, the well-known journalist H.L, Mencken wrote: 2

“In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of in- tolerable vulgarity, destructive alike to his peace and to his dignity — nay, into a whole series of such situations.”

A few days after the meeting with Mencken, Valentino fell gravely ill, and soon after an emergency operation for appendicitis and gastric ulcers, he died, his heart p J by sep | ditis.

Most people who know next_to

prep to be true: Imagine a young man, dead at only

31, lying in state ip/a bronze coffin inside a Broadway funefal chapel, his face and shoulders exposed to,view. His face is

serene, the atmosphere dignified and melancholy. Then imagine about 15, people standing outside the chapel in the pouring rain, blocking every street, with policemen trying to hold them back,

The crowd grows restive and angry; as they surge toward the funeral chapel, its huge plate-glass window shatters, showering everyone with splinters. The crowd panics and turns into a mob on the P 1 poli: begin charging into the crowd to break it up and to prevent it from destroying the chapel. Everyone starts screaming and struggling as the horses’ hooves tram- ple women and children underfoot. People faint and scream. Scores are in-

* jured and a room in the mortuary is

astily turned into an emergency hospital.

When the doors of the funeral parlor finally open, the mob surges for- ward, pushing and kicking everything in its path, E jally things are d and, on the first day alone, 40,000 people are ushered past Valentino's cof-

in. They are entitled only to a two- second glance at the body before being cushed out again.

Sobbing women are roughly hurried on when they try to kiss the gloat case that protects their idol. © *

Throngs of mourners line the streets as Valentino's body is taken to the railway station to make its last journey back to California where he is to be buried,

After the funeral, Valentino's per- sonal belongings were auctioned off; his handkerchiefs, ties and garters became sought-after relics for the. shrines to his memory that sprung up all over America. Yet even 1,000 pairs of socks were not enough to satisfy popular demand. The vault where he lay was regularly hacked to hits and the chips were sold as souvenirs.

Five men were discovered trying to break into the vault itself; they were reported to be “ghouls planning to steal the body of Valentino for commercial purposes.” Not until the death of James Dean would there again be such a mor- bid love-after-death cult. Women

laimed to have i d with

Rudy's spirit, others said he was the father of their child, several committed suicide, and one sued for divorce on the grounds that her husband would not alow her to five near Valentino's tomb.

A mystery woman, veiled and di id all in black, d to bring ted roses to Valentino's tomb on each anniversary of his death until 1951. Love had brought Rudy fame, fortune and doubtless some happiness during his lifetime, but it had also, even in death, brought with it the ‘intolerable vulgarity’ of which Mencken had spoken.

_ NEXT: Jean Harlow’s death at 26.