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Rudolph Valentino
The Silent Idol
His Life in Pictures

By Donna L. Hill

2019 expanded edition

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2010 edition

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Rudolph Valentino: The Silent Idol: His Life in Pictures
By Donna L. Hill

[Expanded Edition]
RVG Books : San Francisco, California : 2019
Trade Paperback Edition : ISBN 0578-47224-4 (978-0-578-47224-9) : 506 pages
$40.00

Reviewed by Carl Bennett

This pictorial biography of Rudolph Valentino, nearly doubled in size in this 2019 expanded edition, is light on biography but liberally illustrated with hundreds of chronologically organized photographs of Valentino in his personal life, productions stills from Valentino films and more. Not usually offered in a book of this type, in some cases one can inspect multiple shots from photo shoots. One can easily lose hours perusing the fascinating high-quality photographs in this book, many of them from the author’s personal collection.

Donna L. Hill lived in San Francisco, was a lifelong Valentino fan, and published the Falcon Lair website.

This book is available from
DONNA L. HILL’S FALCON LAIR through . . .

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