Rudolph Valentino (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 10)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Rudolph Valentino was Hollywood’s first “latin lover.” His shocking death at the age of 31 was attributed to side effects from an appendectomy, but Hollywood Babylon forwards theories that Valentino may have actually been poisoned, or killed by the husband of a lover, and/or secretly gay and recently divorced from his second secretly lesbian wife. What was the real story of Valentino’s marriages, and what really led to his untimely demise? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I will enjoy acting for you a little bit more.
0:15.2	Let's sing it!
0:26.3	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This.
0:34.6	The podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten stories of Hollywood's
0:41.9	first century.
0:43.9	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
0:47.1	And this is another episode of our ongoing series Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon.
0:56.3	The great films of the silent years.
1:02.8	This is news.
1:03.8	This is totally unfounded gossip.
1:06.5	It's a long way from Hollywood.
1:08.3	Criticized for dealing too frankly with such themes as sex and nudity.
1:13.3	Hollywood Babylon.
1:20.8	Today we're tackling the story of Hollywood's first quote unquote Latin lover.
1:27.9	Rudolfo Gullielmi.
1:30.0	Better known as Rudolf Valentino.
1:33.6	Here an excerpt from Hollywood Babylon.
1:40.7	The occasion was the death of the screen's great lover, Rudolf Valentino.
1:45.7	On August 23, 1926, at 10 minutes afternoon in New York's polyclinic hospital.
1:53.3	The official cause of death was stated to be paratonitis following an operation for an inflamed
1:57.9	appendix, but rumor attributed his death to an arsenic revenge by a well-known New York
2:03.5	society woman whom he dropped after a brief affair while in the city on a personal appearance
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