Valentino and Kerry moved back to Los Angeles and became roommates at the Alexandria Hotel. While in town, Valentino met actor Norman Kerry, who convinced him to try a career in cinema, which was still in the silent film era. By fall, he was in San Francisco with a bit part in a theatrical production of Nobody Home. He then joined an Al Jolson production of Robinson Crusoe, Jr. In 1917, Valentino joined an operetta company that traveled to Utah, where it disbanded. Valentino in an advertisement for The Married Virgin (1918) in which he portrays a villain Fearful of being called in as a witness in another sensational trial, Valentino left town and joined a traveling musical that led him to the West Coast. Shortly after the trial, Blanca de Saulles fatally shot her ex-husband during a custody dispute over their son.
#SEX SYMBOL FOR FEMALE TRIAL#
įollowing the well-publicized trial and subsequent scandal, Valentino could not find employment. The evidence was flimsy at best, and after a few days in jail, Valentino's bail was lowered from $10,000 to $1,500. Thyme, a known madam, on some unspecified vice charges. Following the divorce, John de Saulles reportedly used his political connections to have Valentino arrested, along with a Mrs. Whether Blanca and Valentino actually had a romantic relationship is unknown, but when the de Saulles divorced, Valentino took the stand to support Blanca de Saulles's claims of infidelity on her husband's part. Valentino eventually befriended Chilean heiress Blanca de Saulles, who was unhappily married to businessman John de Saulles, with whom she had a son. Among the other dancers at Maxim's were several displaced members of European nobility, for whom a premium demand existed. Eventually, he found work as a taxi dancer at Maxim's Restaurant-Cabaret. Around 1914, restaurateur Joe Pani who owned Castles-by-the-Sea, the Colony, and the Woodmansten Inn was the first to hire Rudolph to dance the tango with Joan Sawyer for $50 per week. While he was living on the streets, Valentino would occasionally come back to Murray's for lunch and the staff would slip him some food. Valentino once worked as a bus boy at Murray's on 42nd Street and was well liked, but didn't do a good job and was fired. Although he found unparalleled fame and success in America, Valentino never filed the necessary papers for naturalization, and so retained his Italian citizenship.Īrriving in New York City, he supported himself with odd jobs such as busing tables in restaurants and gardening.
He was processed at Ellis Island at age 18 on December 23, 1913.
Unable to secure employment, he departed for the United States in 1913. Īfter living in Paris in 1912, he soon returned to Italy. He did poorly in school and was eventually enrolled in agricultural school in Genoa, where he earned a certificate. His mother coddled him, while his father disapproved of him. Īs a child, Rodolfo was indulged because of his exceptional looks and his playful personality. Valentino had an older brother, Alberto (1892–1981), a younger sister, Maria, and an older sister, Beatrice, who had died in infancy. His mother, Marie Berthe Gabrielle Barbin (1856–1918), was French with Torinese ancestry, born in Lure in Franche-Comté. His father, Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, was Italian he was a captain of cavalry in the Italian Army, later a veterinarian, who died of malaria when Rodolfo was 11. Valentino was born in Castellaneta, Apulia, and named Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella.
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