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Summary:Rudolph Valentino was the original screen lover, the idol of millions of women who flocked to cinemas throughout the world to gaze in adoration at their silent hero. When Valentino died on August 23 1926, at the age of 31, it provoked widespread hysteria. At his funeral, crowds of a quarter of a million stood in the rain and numbers of lovelorn women committed suicide.
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