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Hi, Sylvia. I just read your comment on Ramon Novarro and was pleased to learn of your connection. Mr. Novarro had a distinguished career that should not be overshadowed by his eventual fate. He was a dancer in the beginning, and he sincerely hoped for a careeer as a singer. Audiences only wanted to see him as Judah Ben-Hur, however.
Ramón Novarro. Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego, mai cunoscut ca Ramón Novarro, (n. 6 februarie 1899, Victoria de Durango, Durango, Mexic – d. 30 octombrie 1968, Hollywood, California, SUA) a fost un actor mexican de film, teatru și televiziune și ocazional regizor, care și-a început cariera jucând în filme mute în 1917 și a devenit ...
May 11, 2003 · Ramon Novarro's 1968 murder, with its scandalous homophobic overtones, has tended to obscure his place in film history as Hollywood's first Latin American leading man. To its credit, Andre Soares ...
Oct 16, 2023 · Not So Confidential. 159. Vintage Case: The Life and Death of Ramon Novarro. Oct 16. For this month's vintage case, we look at another untimely death of one of Hollywood's earliest stars, Ramon Novarro. A Mexican immigrant, Novarro rose to stardom in the silent film era and then transitioned to talking films at a time when the audience was ...
Jan 29, 2019 · Ramon Novarro was a Mexican actor and singer whose stardom at MGM in the 1920s and ’30s was not impeded by his off-screen life as a gay man. In Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger focuses only on ...
Aug 8, 2013 · On Ramon Novarro Day, Turner Classic Movies’ first Novarro movie is Rex Ingram’s The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), a stately version of Edward Rose’s play, itself based on Anthony Hope’s 1897 novel: in the Central European kingdom of Ruritania, a traveling Englishman takes the place of the kidnapped local king-to-be-crowned. A pre-Judge Hardy Lewis Stone has the double role, while Novarro plays the scheming Rupert of Hentzau.
According to Metro’s publicity department, in the veins of the handsome young Mexican heartthrob ran the blood of the earliest Spanish conquistadores mingled with that of Aztec royalty, a studio-created myth that only partly matched Novarro’s actual family history. In the ninth century, a half-Moorish prince of...
