Monthly Archives: February 2025

Without a Rudolph Valentino it is doubtful if Mr. Zukor could have grossed such enormous sums on those pictures. Plus the insurance money certainly helped out now didn’t it.

It was the passionate mastery of Valentino that brought him to such eminence.

The lamented Valentino had this magnetism in superabundant quality.

Without a Famous Players- Laskey Corporation with its vast facilities and ample resources it is highly doubtful if Valentino could have risen to international eminence in such a brief space of time.

It has been almost a year now since Rudolph Valentino probably the greatest personality ever brought forth by the motion picture, has passed on and yet how rarely his name is recalled in that forgetful world we call Hollywood.

It was primarily June Mathis, with the courage of a visionary, who assumed a new perspective on romance in the silent drama and who had the courage to depict a latin as a lover rather than a villian. Before the advent of Valentino, the status of latin in a silent drama was not exactly complimentary. They were always cast as despicable characters, evil plotters lacking moral finesse, philanderers, roustabouts, black-hands and such.