In another wonderful essay on cinema history for @film89.bsky.social, the brilliant @welshbluesman.bsky.social discusses the life, career, and untimely death of Rudolph Valentino, as well as how the actor changed America's relationship to masculinity and celebrity!
www.film89.co.uk/rudolph-vale...
A hundred years ago this year, in August 1926, thousands of people lined the streets of New York City, waiting for news. Their focus was on the New York Polyclinic Hospital, hoping for the best, bu…
