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1The Nureyev Valentino

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“The Nureyev Valentino” Metadata:

  • Title: The Nureyev Valentino
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  • Languages: ➤  English - Spanish; Castilian - español, castellano
  • Number of Pages: Median: 124
  • Publisher: ➤  Studio Vista - Grijalbo - Bantam Doubleday Dell
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  • Publish Location: London - Barcelona

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"BRINGING A LEGEND BACK TO LIFE In August 1926 the screen actor Rudolph Valentino died in New York at the age of thirty-one. Almost exactly fifty years later, in August 1976, the cameras began to roll again for a film with his name on the title sheet. The alchemy of art had brought about a strange rebirth. The Sheik carrying a half-reluctant maiden into his tent went through familiar motions, but he bore another name. Rudolph had turned into Rudolf, Valentino became Nureyev. On Spanish sands a Russian tartar was reincarnating an Italian in the role of an Arab. The portrayer of screen heroes had himself become a screen hero, a star impersonated by a star. It was an occasion in which Valentino would surely have felt at home. The first great romantic superstar of the cinema, his image still haunts its history. Half hero and half victim, triumphant, battered (the American male, threatened by the success of his foreign charms, hit back by accusations of effeminacy and hints of impotence), sometimes pathetic but never pitiable, armed with a charisma which nothing could impair, he makes an obvious subject for a film. Valentino was conceived - appropriately in Hollywood - in the minds of a pair of producers, Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler, partners for eleven years and godfathers to twenty pictures. 'Every year we are reminded of Valentino in Los Angeles by the commemoration held at his crypt,' says Chartoff. 'He opens the lid on a whole period; he's part of our legend and lore, the first great romantic leading man, the Great Lover. He's never left our sight or mind and he probably never will."

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  • First Year Published: 1977
  • Is Full Text Available: Yes
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: Borrowable

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2Valentino Master Of Couture A Private View

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  • Title: ➤  Valentino Master Of Couture A Private View
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  • Number of Pages: Median: 110
  • Publisher: ➤  Rizzoli - Rizzoli International Publications
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  • First Year Published: 2012
  • Is Full Text Available: No
  • Is The Book Public: No
  • Access Status: No_ebook

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