Beschreibung:

Comprising 2 large red leather scrapbooks, 20 x 25 in., containing hundreds of mounted clippings dating from approximately 1926 to 1951, with many of the clippings (both original and photocopied) dealing with Valentino's death but also including the razing of Valentino's villa on Wedgewood Place to make room for the Hollywood Freeway in 1951 (a swatch of the gold leaf bedroom wallpaper from this home is mounted in the scrapbook), articles about Valentino's estate sale, pages from Valentino film pressbooks, lobby cards (some trimmed), sheet music (including sheet music from the song written for Valentino after his death, "There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight" by J. Keirn Brennan, Jimmy McHugh, and Irving Mills), and album covers from Valentino tangos; along with 3 boxes containing the following: a 63 pp mimeographed manuscript, legal folio, blind stamped on each page "Paul Ivano / Hollywood, Calif." titled Valentino by Paul Ivano, an unpublished memoir by Ivano, who was one of Valentino's closest friends, accompanied by 23 pp of autobiographical material on Ivano; an approximately 173 pp xerographic typed manuscript (with some xerographic handwritten pages and newspaper articles) by George Ullman, c.1972, in which Ullman writes observations about Valentino and his life that he felt unable to make in his earlier books, when many of the "players" in Valentino's life were still alive; an envelope of twenty 8 x 10 in. black-and-white photographs (some duplicates) of a special 1976 Screen Actors Guild screening of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Valentino's death which feature Alberto Guglielmi (Valentino's brother), Alberto's son Jean Valentino and his daughter, as well as George Ullman and his wife and others, along with several invitations and programs to this event; a set of 4 "Liberty" magazines from 1929 which feature a 4-part article on Valentino by Adela Rogers St. Johns, housed in an envelope addressed to Jean Valentino (Valentino's nephew) with corresponding xerographic copies; an approximately 46 pp legal size xerographic copy of the Report of Auditor on Administration of the Estate of Rodolpho Guglielmi, Deceased, to January 31, 1930 dated May 22, 1930; 2 xerographic copies of a 40 pp manuscript titled "Up Spain" by Natacha Rambova de Urzaiz (Rambova's second husband's last name); 3 xerographic copies of a manuscript titled "The Official Records of Rudolph Valentino" compiled by Julio Borgia Sammarcelli; a program celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Rudolph Valentino Awards dated May 13, 1982, with lists of the recipients, among them Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, Grace Kelly, and Richard Burton; 26 pp of handwritten notes on yellow notepaper (likely written by William Self) titled "Notes from Jean Valentino Tapes;" a black 3-ring binder containing approximately 55 typed transcripts of 1920s and '30s movie magazine articles pertaining to Valentino; 3 small 1940s and '50s magazines with content relating to Valentino; an 8.5 x 11 in. bag of newspaper and magazine clippings dating from the 1920s and after; a record album titled Rudolph Valentino: A George Garabedian Production (Mark56 Records, 1977), which features Valentino's brother, Alberto, interviewed by his son, Jean, with reminiscences about Valentino's life and career; 26 magazines, many from the 1920s but some from later years, featuring articles on Valentino, 21 of which feature Valentino on the cover; various xerographic and photocopied articles and ephemera; a small red pamphlet, dated 1995, celebrating Valentino's 100th birthday; an original public auction catalog from The Estate of Rudolph Valentino that took place on December 10, 1926; and an original auction catalog for the April 20, 1982 Christie's South Kensington auction which featured many items belonging to Valentino. Together with the following books: Day Dreams by Rudolph Valentino (Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., 1923), a collection of sentimental and thoughtfu