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THE TWENTIES
They used to call Barbara La Marr "the girl who is too beautiful." In 1926 she starred for First National in The Girl from Montmartre, with Robert Ellis playing opposite her. It was her last picture. She died in January of that year, two months before the picture was released.
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In that same year, too, Valentino ended a career that had lasted only six years. His last picture was The Son of the Sheik, an attempt— and not a very happy one— to recapture the glamour of his first starring film. Vilma Banky, the new Hungarian find, was his leading lady, but the picture had a prologue featuring Agnes Ayres, the female lead of the old Sheik. A few weeks after the picture was released, Valentino died, following an emergency operation. His funeral services in New York caused a riot; Camp
bell's funeral parlor, where his body lay, was nearly wrecked by hysterical fans. Thousands of weeping women gathered at way stations across the country to watch the funeral train on its way to Los Angeles.
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Today, in De Longpre Park in Hollywood stands the only tangible evidence that Valentino existed, this bronze monument to his memory, paid for by small contributions from his sorrowing fans.
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Another Latin star was the one-time extra, Ramon Novarro, whom you saw in The Prisoner of Zcnda, and whose star reached its zenith in M-G-M's production of Ben Hur. He is shown here, in the title role, being seized by the Roman guards.