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 ...
It is not the sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener’s job in Manhattan’s ...