Biografia

At the height of his popularity, he went on a brief sojourn in his native Italy to visit friends and family and, in general, to get a much-needed rest. When he returned to Hollywood, friends asked him if he had been mobbed by fans while on vacation. He said no, explaining that "over there, I look like every other Italian fellow on the street".

He and Jean Acker had one of the shortest celebrity marriages on record: six hours. After courting for just a few days, they impulsively married on 11/5/1919, but she locked him out of their hotel room later that night after a spat. They separated, and their divorce was finalized in 1922. Ironically, after their divorce, they became good friends.

His father was Italian, his mother was French. He spoke at least four languages fluently (English, Spanish, French, Italian) and may have spoken more.

His last words before passing were,"Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!".

At the time of his death he was severely in debt, and his heirs could not afford a burial plot for him. June Mathis, friend and screenwriter of his hit films Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse (1921) and Sangue e Areia (1922), agreed to temporarily loan him a space in her family crypt at Hollywood Park Cemetery so he could be interred upon his body's arrival in Los Angeles, following a coast-to-coast funeral train ride from New York. Mathis died the following year and Valentino's body was moved into her husband's space. He is still interred there, as all memorial plans fell through during the Depression.