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In this montage of kissing scenes, silent screen romantic star Rudolph Valentino is shown doing what he did best.
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Added: 16th October 2008
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Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died on August 23, 1926 due to peritonitis complications from an operation to fix a perforated ulcer performed eight days earlier. He was 31 years old. More than 100,000 grieving fans rioted outside the New York City funeral home where Valentino was resting.
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Added: 13th November 2008
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Twenty-year-old American sprinter Wilma Rudolph won three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Her championships came in the women's 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 x 100 relay. Rudolph had also been a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team in Melbourne as a 16-year-old. Remarkably, Rudolph was a sickly child who had to walk with the assistance of leg braces. Another member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team was admittedly smitten by Rudolph: an 18-year-old boxer from Louisville named Cassius Clay. Clay/Ali and Rudolph became friends and often appeared at charity fund-raisers together for many years afterwards. Rudolph only lived to be 54, dying of brain cancer in 1994.
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Added: 18th January 2012
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Triple gold medallist Wilma Rudolph appears on To Tell The Truth a few months after her athletic triumphs at the 1960 Rome Olympics. It's amazing to consider how anonymous even the greatest Olympians were in the days before the Olympic Games were widely televised.
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Added: 21st March 2013
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Silent movie heartthrob Rudolph Valentino died from complications of pleuritis on August 23, 1926 at the age of 31. Such was Valentino's popularity that an estimated 100,000 disorderly people lined the streets of New York City to pay their respects at his funeral. The arrangements were handled by the Frank Campbell Funeral Home. The event was a combination of facrce and drama. Suicides of despondent female fans were widely reported. Windows were smashed as fans tried to force their way into the funeral parlor. What can only be described as an all-day riot erupted on August 24. More than 100 mounted officers and NYPD's Police Reserve were deployed to try to restore order. A phalanx of officers lined the streets for the remainder of the viewing. Drama occurred inside the funeral home too. Polish actress Pola Negri, claiming to be Valentino's fiancée, collapsed in hysterics while standing over the actor's coffin. Four fascist Blackshirts formed an honor guard, which was purportedly dispatched by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Afterward the honor guard was revealed to have been comprised of actors. It was a publicity stunt orchestrated by the funeral home.
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Added: 6th November 2013
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