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Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

Death of the Latin Lover

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

iHeartPodcasts and CBS News

Society & Culture, History

4.820.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The frenzy Rudolph Valentino caused in life was matched only by the pandemonium unleashed when he died at age 31. With his brooding good looks and vulnerability, he and the other "Latin Lovers" that followed redefined the leading man. Mo also recounts the triumphant and tragic story of superstar Ramon Novarro and talks with TV star Lorenzo Lamas about his father, the debonair Fernando Lamas.

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0:00.0

For years, I went to a psychotherapist just three doors down from a funeral parlor.

0:08.9

I gotta tell you, passing by mourners on my way to therapy really put me in the right

0:13.5

headspace to, you know, think about what I wanted my own life, dad up to.

0:18.9

I highly recommend choosing a psychotherapist with an office next to a funeral parlor.

0:26.1

Now let's travel back in time, nearly a century ago to Manhattan's Upper West Side.

0:33.1

It's a sweltering late summer day and we're standing in front of the Frank E. Campbell

0:38.0

funeral chapel, then located at Broadway and 66th Street.

0:43.4

Over the next hundred years, Campbell's will serve as the funeral home for legends from

0:48.2

Judy Garland to Jackie O to the notorious B.I.G. But they won't draw the crowds seen on Tuesday

0:56.7

August 24th, 1926, when the sidewalks are overflowing with a crowd of some 30,000 mourners.

1:07.5

They've all gathered here to catch a final glimpse of a fallen movie star.

1:15.6

Arguably the first male sex symbol of the silver screen.

1:20.6

He was in great physical shape and you see those rippling muscles in his arms.

1:27.5

I mean, I don't know if you've ever seen the videos of him doing his workout.

1:32.7

Why, he's wearing pretty much just his give-ies.

1:36.4

Oh, okay.

1:37.4

I'll check those out.

1:38.6

I haven't seen those.

1:40.0

Oh, you need to see that.

1:42.0

He was labeled the great lover or even more indelibly the Latin lover.

1:49.0

He would hold you in his arms if you were a beautiful woman and kiss you passionately

1:57.2

and brutally.

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