1. The life of Rudolph Valentino. ● Rudolph Valentino was born on may 6,1895 in Castellaneta,Italy.

2. Rudolph's early life. ● Rudolph was one of three sons born to Giovanni Guglielmi and his wife Beatrice Gabriella Barbin. ● Rudolph was born with the name Rudolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filberto Gugliemi.

3. Rudolph's school years ● Rudolph attended school at the Venice Military in Venice,Italy as his father did at a young age.

4. School years continued. ● Rudolph dropped out from the Military school at the age of 13 but later went on to receive a diploma in agriculture.

5. The move to America. ●.December 9, 1913 Rudy leaves Italy on the U.S.S. Cleveland for America. He arrives in New York on December 23, 1913. Rudy is practically penniless with an imperfect command of English which causes him some problems. He ends up renting a small room in an Italian neighborhood in New York. He spends a lonely Christmas and New Year in a new and strange land, he wonders if it was wise to come to America

6. Life for Rudy in America. ● After Valentino arrived in new york he had began going through many jobs and started playing parts in illegal acts.

7. Rudolph gets arrested. In September 1916 Valentino was arrested in connection with a blackmail and extortion scheme

8. Rudolph's life begins to change. ● It was only when Valentino began working in dance halls that his future began to become clearer

9. The long road to fame. ● Valentino began working as a night club dancer and a tango partner for Bonnie Glass.

10. Getting closer to becoming a star. ● Valentino began dancing often in musical productions and eventually begins to tour the country with a musical comedy troupe.

11. Dance career. After Bonnie Glass retires, he dances with Joan Sawyer and continues to tour in vaudeville on the East Coast.

12. Finding fame in California To get to California he gets work as a chorister in The Merry Monarch and The Masked Model. The Masked Model closes in Ogden, Utah and Rudy is paid off with a train ticket to San Francisco. Rudy finds work in San Francisco as a dance instructor, also reportedly as a bond salesman and ultimately a chorus boy in a play Nobody Home.

13. First screen appearance.! Rudy makes first screen appearance as a dancer in the film Alimony. Rudy also obtains work dancing in exhibitions partnering several ladies including, Marjorie Tain, Kathleen Phelps and Carol Dempster (best remembered today as a rather unsuccessful D.W. Griffith prodigy).

14. The death of Rudolphs mother. While on the road to fame Rudy's beloved mother Beatrice Gabriela Barbin Guglielmi dies on January 18, 1918 (Valentino does not find out the news until a letter reaches him a month later from his sister, Maria )

15. Escaping the epidemic Rudy travels to San Francisco to avoid the Spanish Influenza epidemic. He contracts it on his return but miraculously, due to his superb physical shape, he recovers without the aid of a physician. While in San Francisco He meets an independent producer Joe Maxwell who casts him as the lead in The Married Virgin, a film that would not be released until well after Rudy becomes a star r

16. Staring in more films. Rudy gets more extra work in films. He has several appearances as the "heavy" in films. “Though work can be slow to come in and the breaks are tough, steadily his luck increases as his roles seem to get better and better”.

17. Rudy in 1919 Rudy crosses paths with his old New York acquaintance, Mae Murray and her husband Robert Z. Leonard and they cast him in two of her films Big Little Person and A Delicious Little Devil. From his good work with Mae Murray, Universal employs him in two Carmel Myers pictures, A Society Sensation and All Night. Rudy gets a meaty and villainous role in Dorothy Phillip's latest film Once to Every Woman. Rudy meets Jean Acker and, after a brief courtship they marry, on November 5, 1919. A fiasco, the marriage lasts barely a few hours. Jean Acker locks Rudy out of her apartment and refuses to see or speak with him initially