Rudolph Valentino Net Worth

#Fact1He is referenced in The Corrs' "I Never Loved You Anyway.".2His last words before passing were,"Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!".3Mentioned in "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)" by Leo Sayer.4Is referenced in The Kinks' 1972 song "Celluloid Heroes", with the lines "Rudolph Valentino looks very much alive. And he looks up ladies' dresses as they sadly pass him by".5Following his untimely death, he was interred at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever Cemetery) in Los Angeles, California.6He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6164 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.7Valentino died at Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan (NYC). His death certificate stated the cause of death as a ruptured gastric ulcer and general peritonitis, naming also septic pneumonia and septic endocarditis as contributory causes.8His name was mentioned once in the Disney comedy film Herbie Rides Again (1974).9In 2011, "Affairs Valentino" by Evelyn Zumaya was released by The Rudolph Valentino Society. The biography drastically repaints the life of Valentino with newly found court documents, accounting ledgers, and unpublished memoirs and memories by his manager George Ullman and Godfather Frank Mennillo.10In 2009, a novel, based on the idea of Rudolph Valentino living to the age of 110 was published as "Conversations with Rodolfo" by Hala Pickford.11In 2009, The Rudolph Valentino Society was created to honor his legacy.12The Rudolph Valentino Film Festival, held in Los Angeles, California was created in his honor.13Is mentioned in The Bongos song "Apache Dancing": "We like to tango like Valentino".14In the 1930s, Sheik Condoms, named after his most famous role, were introduced and feature Valentino's silhouette on the packaging for years.15Was paired with Nita Naldi in four movies: Blood and Sand (1922), A Sainted Devil (1924), The Hooded Falcon (1924) and Cobra (1925).16Had an Irish Wolfhound named "Centaur Pendragon" and a Great Dane named 'Kabar'.17Is mentioned in The Bangles 1986 song (written by Prince) "Manic Monday".18Worked as a dishwasher, taxi dancer, and gardener before starring in The Son of the Sheik (1926).19He was voted the 32nd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.20He is responsible for bringing the Argentine Tango to America, first performing the famous dance in his film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and later in a successful American national dance tour with his wife, Natacha Rambova, who, like Valentino himself, was once a professional dancer.21At the height of his popularity, Valentino went on a brief sojurn in his native Italy to visit friends and family and, in general, to get a much-needed rest. When he returned to Hollywood, friends asked him if he had been mobbed by fans while on vacation. Valentino said no, explaining that, "over there, I look like every other Italian fellow on the street.".22A few months before Valentino's death, a Chicago newspaper columnist attacked his masculinity in print, referring to him as a "pink powder puff". A lawsuit was pending when Valentino was fatally stricken. One of his last questions to his doctor was, "Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff'?" His doctor reportedly replied, "No, sir. You have been very brave. Braver than most.".23At the time of his death he was severely in debt, and his heirs could not afford a burial plot for him. June Mathis, friend and screenwriter of his hit films The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Blood and Sand (1922), agreed to temporarily loan him a space in her family crypt at Hollywood Park Cemetery so he could be interred upon his body's arrival in Los Angeles, following a coast-to-coast funeral train ride from New York. Mathis died the following year and Valentino's body was moved into her husband's space. He is still interred there, as all memorial plans fell through during the Depression.24Valentino and Jean Acker had one of the shortest celebrity marriages on record: six hours. After courting for just a few days, they impulsively married on November 5, 1919, but she locked him out of their hotel room later that night after a spat. They separated, and their divorce was finalized in 1922. Ironically, after their divorce, they became good friends.25Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Clara Bow, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Zasu Pitts, Harold Lloyd, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Kops.26His father was Italian his mother was French. Valentino spoke at least four languages fluently (English, Spanish, French, Italian) and may have spoken more.27Following his untimely death, a bogus, composite photograph of Valentino ascending up to heaven was released for sale, and was snatched up by his legion of fans.28For many years on the anniversary of Valentino's death, a mysterious woman, dressed all in black, was seen laying a wreath of flowers on his grave. Her identity was never established.29Published a thin volume of sentimental poetry titled "Day Dreams" in 1923. The book sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In 2010, it was reprinted by 1921 PVG Publishing with a foreword by Evelyn Zumaya.30Considered to be the first male sex symbol of the cinema during the silent era.31A portion of Irving Boulevard in Hollywood, California, was renamed Rudolph Valentino Street in 1978.32In 1923 he recorded two songs, "Kashmiri Love Song" (from The Sheik (1921)) and "El Relicario" (from Blood and Sand (1922)) for Brunswick Records. Both recordings still exist and have been released on the CD "Rudolph Valentino: He Sings & Others Sing About Him".33Ranked #80 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]