On a Hollywood sound stage, Beatrice Dominguez once found herself where so many young movie-going women longed to be — in the arms of Rudolph Valentino. Dominguez, a skilled Spanish dancer born in the ...
A crowd gathers on the sidewalk outside the Liberty Theater, 718 W. Riverside Ave., to see “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph Valentino. The 1921 film, which reached Spokane in November of that year, built ...