Valentino Draws Crowd 64 Years After Death
Silent film legend Rudolph Valentino has been dead 64 years, but annual commemorations of his passing continue to draw hundreds.
About 200 people gathered Thursday to eulogize Valentino, an icon of the silent screen.
Most of the fans who attended the service in the Hollywood Memorial Park mausoleum, where Valentino is interred, were too young to have seen such films as “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and “The Sheik,” the quintessential Valentino movie. Valentino appeared in 31 films between 1917 and his death in 1926 at age 31 of peritonitis caused by a ruptured ulcer.
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