From THE VALENTINO COLLECTION - Paramount; 1922; dir: Sam Wood; cast: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis. 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.) U.S. copy still photograph, very fine condition. The image features a full-length shot of Valentino, as Lord Hector Bracondale, from the film's flashback sequence in which he and Theodora Fitzgerald (Gloria Swanson) appear in the early 1800's. He is shown wearing an elegant period suit with a hat as he enters a garden through a wrought iron gate to talk to Theodora who is offscreen. This same image of Valentino entering the garden appears on one of the film's two original one-sheet movie posters.

This famous lost silent film, which was discovered in a film archive in the Netherlands in 2005, was the only time that silent film legends Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson appeared together onscreen.

THE VALENTINO COLLECTION is a collection of high-quality 8 x 10 in. copy still photographs that were made from a dupe negative of a vintage original still photograph or a copy still photograph from our archive of over 1,500 stills relating to silent film legend Rudolph Valentino.

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