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Good Night Valentino (2003)

15 min  -  Drama | Short
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Dramatization of an H.L. Mencken story. Rudolph Valentino comes to Menckin's hotel room to seek advice about how to deal with a newspaper editorial that claims Valentino's screen career has emasculated the American male.

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Good Night Valentino -- The true story of a dinner between silent movie idol Rudolph Valentino and famed journalist H.L. Mencken one week before Valentino's tragic death at age 31, "Good Night Valentino" is also a tribute to silent film itself.
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Edoardo Ballerini ...
John Rothman ...
H.L. Mencken
Blaire Chandler ...
The Maid
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HL Mencken describes a dinner with Rudolph Valentino a few days before the actor dies. He has come to seek Mencken's advice: he's been criticized in the Chicago Tribune for causing the effeminizing of the American male. Valentino is outraged and asks Mencken to write the truth. Mencken looks for a sub-text and finds in the actor the agony of a civilized man thrown into situations of intolerable vulgarity; Valentino finds his own life grotesquely futile. Mencken concludes that man must remain alone and lonely even with crowds surging about him. We watch their encounter. The evening ends, the men part; Mencken concludes that death did Valentino a favor. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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A great man is not only great, but also a man.

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