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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents the personal memoir of S. George Ullman, written in 1975, alongside the complete text of his earlier book titled, Valentino As I Knew Him. Ullman was silent film star Rudolph Valentino's business manager, confidant and close personal friend during the height of Valentino's career. His unique position offers an intimate, firsthand view of Valentino's professional life, his working methods and private character as well as the realities of the silent era film industry behind the scenes. The 1975 memoir which was unpublished in Ullman's lifetime expands on his earlier account with greater reflection, personal detail and historical distance. It includes candid observations, professional correspondence and recollections written near the end of Ullman's life; providing a rare perspective unavailable in contemporary sources. The manuscript was preserved by Ullman's children who granted exclusive authorization for its publication. Author and historian Evelyn Zumaya Floris presents the memoir here together with Ullman's original 1926 text, allowing readers to trace the content and the evolution of the account across fifty years. This edition restores an important primary source to the historical record and offers scholars, film historians and general readers a direct voice from Valentino's inner circle.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For more than a century, Rudolph Valentino's life has been shaped by myth, marketing, and deliberate distortion. Even before his death, fictionalized versions of his story were circulated through studio publicity, obscuring the historical record.In the months preceding his death in 1926, Valentino sought to reclaim his own narrative through an authorized autobiography, undertaken with Spanish journalist Baltasar Cué. His death prevented the project from being completed-but the original documentation survived.Drawing on archival material uncovered through decades of research in the United States and Italy, Evelyn Zumaya Floris and Renato Floris assembled a body of evidence never previously accessed by Valentino biographers. From this material, a documented history emerged that fundamentally alters the popular understanding of Valentino's life.The Rudolph Valentino Case Files includes the complete 1956 Robert Florey serialized investigation 'Unforgettable, Unforgotten: Rudolph Valentino Survives His Legend,' a definitive analysis of the ghost-written My Private Diary, original essays detailing major archival discoveries, and newly translated Italian and French articles published here for the first time.With extensive visual material and an introduction by Renato Floris, this volume presents a rigorously documented portrait of Rudolph Valentino, grounded in primary sources rather than legend.…