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notes 1 for more information about valentino s death and its aftermath in new york please visit the following posts which also include links to their corresponding youtube videos basket versus casket how and when was rudolph valentino s body removed to the frank e campbell funeral church in the times union brooklyn new york dated wednesday august 25 1926 page 15 reporter ted le berthon recounted what had transpired the day before august 24 in an evocative piece entitled valentino riots a morbid orgy please see his report in the post below rudolph valentino his body ravaged as he died he received giggles in death 2 the cartoonist who created the silent drama seems to be jesse taylor cargill who was known for his political cartoons he worked from the 1920 s to the 1960 s a short biography is available on page 2 of the introduction to his letters which are housed at the state historical society of missouri posted on august 23 2023 december 7 2024 by rudolph valentino connections posted in rudolph valentino tagged campbell s funeral church jesse taylor cargill rudolph valentino rudolph valentino death rudolph valentino new york funeral st malachy catholic church leave a comment happy birthday rudolph valentino and grandmother rosina may 6 2023 may 6 2023 marks the 128th anniversary of rudolph valentino s birth my grandmother rosina was born 151 years ago on may 6 1872 a correct birth date according to her recently discovered official italian birth record although her gravestone reads 1873 youth has no age pablo picasso posted on may 6 2023 december 12 2023 by rudolph valentino connections posted in family rudolph valentino tagged pablo picasso rosina locastro lalumia rudolph valentino rudolph valentino birthday leave a comment rudolph valentino the connection the four horsemen of the apocalypse an extra and me this is the story about how a chance online meeting opened a new perspective into the scene which introduced rudolph valentino s tango to the world of silent film goers the scene which led me to the discovery of my connection to this great silent film star when i created this blog it was because one night the name rudolph valentino came to my mind like a bolt out of the blue as i was looking at very old family photographs and when i first wrote about the four horsemen of the apocalypse two years ago just a few months into my journey with this site i had no idea that in that film i would find my then unknown connection to rudolph valentino my discovery came about quite by accident after connecting with another member of ancestry com i had joined because the pictures in the box in my closet made me want to know more about my family history i didn t know that this person had been doing extensive research on her family and along the way had compiled quite a bit of information about my family as it tied into her family tree and it is this intersection of her family tree with mine that would reveal my actually our connection to rudolph valentino while talking i recounted my sudden interest in valentino and she recalled some stories that had been passed down through her family her interest was piqued and she began digging and started to put the pieces together she had a worn out copy of emily leider s dark lover and asked if i knew about it of course i had already acquired the book and she pointed me toward a picture which showed the full frame of the famous tango scene in the movie which included one of her relatives a granduncle next came the revelation that my own granduncle had married into the family it s an indirect connection through a marriage but a connection nonetheless needless to say this was not only a shock but also an impetus to continue researching the era during which valentino and my family lived this connection continues to inspire my research into the life of rudolph valentino see note 1 below about the use of the term granduncle my acquaintance from ancestry com and i have since exchanged a great deal of information and has graciously agreed to allow this story to be told in many videos the famous tango scene in the four horseman of the apocalypse is blurry at best and most cut off the sides of the frame but clear black and white publicity stills and colorized lobby cards from the period show the scene in much better detail in the picture below i ve circled one of the extras watching valentino tango this man is our link to rudolph valentino who was this man variations of lobby cards the clearest version of the full movie i have found uploaded to youtube is the tcm presentation of the turner channel 4 tinted restoration which features a score by carl davies according to imdb this restoration included many scenes that had been deleted or thought to be lost it is posted by historic hollywood on youtube without a soundtrack and the timestamps below refer to this version which i chose to use as my source as it seems to be slightly clearer than other available versions of course there are many short clips which have the soundtrack most seem to be clipped from hollywood episode 6 swanson valentino curated by the youtube channel silver screen classics note i found other uploads that include the davis music soundtrack on foreign based channels i cannot vouch for how long they will stay up at youtube however this version uploaded from a channel based in iceland does appears to meet music licensing requirements update this foreign version is no longer available as of may 2026 there is a brief flash of this extra s clapping hands visible to varying degrees in some of the available videos at the right edge of the screen but he is visible in all versions of the film in two scenes 1 after julio valentino finishes the famous tango sequence and couples return to the dance floor there is a glimpse of this extra dancing right behind valentino and 2 later in the film the same extra appears behind julio s left shoulder as he dances with marguerite alice terry at their rendezvous at what studio publicity would call the paris tango palace i ve drawn the following screen shots from the historic hollywood channel version showing frank varanelli the extra min 13 49 frank varanelli clapping from the sidelines min 15 22 an angry julio frank varanelli to the rear min 42 01 julio and marguerite at the tango palace frank varanelli to the rear part of a studio publicity still from the time of the film s release clearly showing frank varanelli behind valentino s left shoulder during the tango palace scene frank varanelli also would stand in for valentino at times during the production two families connect the story begins with the two granduncles that are key to this story granduncle frank 1 frank xavier varanelli frank xavier varanelli the extra i ve identified above was born on may 24 1900 in waterbury connecticut there were six girls and two boys in a family antonio and frank with frank being the younger of the two frank varanelli was five years younger than rodolfo gugliemli later rudolph valentino who was born on may 6 1895 this pin holds pictures of the young frank right and his older brother antonio tony left their mother is pictured in the lower section of the pin date unknown my ancestry com friend s grandmother concetta would marry antonio so she became the brother in law of frank varanelli therefore he is my friend s granduncle granduncle frank 2 francesco william socci francesco william socci my granduncle was born on february 15 1895 in italy only a few months before the birth of rodolfo guglielmi rudolph valentino the latter arrived in new york on december 23 1913 francesco arrived a few months later on april 29 1914 while rodolfo would stay in new york without family francesco joined his older brothers in waterbury connecticut michele had arrived in the united states on january 21 1901 and went on to waterbury my grandfather ernesto arrived on september 9 1902 and immediately joined his older brother there see the table of contents on this site for prior posts about family histories ernesto was my mother s father and francesco frank was her uncle therefore he is my granduncle frank michele michael socci in his waterbury connecticut shoemaker s shop early 1900 s ernesto socci my grandfather with his baby brother francesco frank date unknown early lives francesco socci was a world war i veteran his draft registration card dated june 5 1917 listed his name as frank mary socci perhaps mary was just a misspelled version of his italian middle name another brother s middle name was mario he was apparently sending money home to his parents in italy as he listed them as two dependents his draft registration was submitted in waterbury and this document also reveals that he had already declared his intention to become a citizen on april 16 1917 as francesco socci when he became a u s citizen under the act of may 8 1918 at age 23 on june 25 1918 his name had been altered and he was formally named as frank william socci in his naturalization document by august 1918 he began his military service frank in uniform he would serve in france in the american expeditionary force from august 1918 june 1919 frank probably after world war i frank varanelli was about 5 years younger than my granduncle frank but as a resident of waterbury connecticut he was required to fill out a questionnaire military census form no 1 after the state passed an act on february 7 1917 designed to procure certain information relative to the resources of the state frank stated that he was a u s citizen 17 years old single had one dependent to support unspecified and that he had no physical disabilities he also stated that had no real technical skills but the one thing he could do was swim the military questionnaire did not ask about one particular skill that frank already had or would be able to develop later apparently he had some ability to dance unlike my granduncle frank socci frank varanelli did not enter the military during world war i the 1920 united states census which was conducted on january 5th of that year lists frank as being 19 years old and working for a grocery store as a truckman after the war frank socci resided in brooklyn and manhattan new york before moving to long island new york frank was trained as a barber in italy and worked in this trade all his life a marriage frank varanelli s niece marries my granduncle my friend s grandmother concetta had a sister named giovannina natalina maria nicolo s was born on december 24 1904 in brooklyn she was known as marie and marie of course was the niece of antonio and frank varanelli frank socci would meet marie in brooklyn new york although her extended family hailed from waterbury they apparently had never met any of the socci brothers there so this was a chance meeting the marriage license for frank and marie was issued on august 30 1923 and their wedding followed on october 21 1923 marie would eventually become a nurse unfortunately i have no pictures of frank as barber marie as a young nurse date unknown frank s passport application picture dated december 7 1921 he planned to travel to italy to visit his parents by july 1921 october 21 1923 marie center left and frank center right flanked by their wedding party frank was 28 marie was 19 what s interesting is that a marriage document lists the groom s name as francesco not his naturalized name frank below is a flow chart that summarizes the connection of the varanelli socci families the chart illustrates how it was my friend s grandaunt giovannina who would give birth to the niece of both antonio and frank varanelli my friend s granduncles and how natalina marie would marry my granduncle frank socci so my friend and i are connected through our granduncles by marriage and it was her granduncle frank who worked with rudolph valentino frank varanelli moves west and into valentino s breakthrough tango scene marie s uncle frank would move west before she married frank socci in 1923 sometime after the january 1920 u s census canvas frank varanelli and his older sister mary patrina varanelli left waterbury mary was born about a year after rodolfo guigliemi rudolph valentino on june 29 1896 brother and sister headed west and settled in los angeles during july 1920 publicity reports were being published about the production including the dance sequences alice terry and rudolph valentino were rehearsing special dances according to the los angeles evening express edition of thursday july 22 1920 page 26 a week later there was a report that beatrice dominguez a talented spanish dancer would do a dance with rudolph valentino in the film los angeles daily times wednesday july 28 1920 part iii page 4 frank varanelli the truckman who arrived in los angeles sometime after january 1920 soon found himself in the movie industry he may have seen an ad in a newspaper or trade publication about a search for dancers in a newspaper story published in november 1920 fed by studio publicity staff as production of the four horsemen of the apocalypse was winding down there was a detailed description about how the french tango promised to be one of the features of the production the story actually focused on the exhibition dance by rudolph valentino and alice terry which they had been practicing for the last month note as detailed above this item was actually first reported on in july a dance palace set was constructed and a real french orchestra was enlisted director rex ingram had a more difficult time recruiting 50 couples who could dance the tango because although the dance had been a craze a few years ago he had to cast a wide net to find all the dancers he needed for the tango palace scene the story also states that ingram wanted the dancers to speak french whether he actually found enough couples with both tango and french language skills is unknown but frank varanelli was chosen to be one of these dancers in this scene as well as the earlier bar scene set in argentina he had no speaking part and it s unlikely he spoke french but he apparently could dance well enough to be chosen to be one of the final one hundred chosen from among three hundred contenders to earn a spot in the cast see note 2 below about problems with teaching french extras for speaking parts director rex ingram was compelled to call about 300 persons before he could get a hundred that could perform the steps to this sinuous dance the journal and tribune knoxville tennessee sunday november 7 1920 page 24 frank varanelli after the four horsemen of the apocalypse frank varanelli didn t just do a one off as an extra in the four horsemen of the apocalypse in fact he had a rather dramatic turn in the original 1925 version of the phantom of the opera which starred lon chaney mary philbin and valentino s friend norman kerry see note 3 below about the different versions of this film the reel journal boxoffice media lp october 3 1925 page 940 via archive org here is the story passed along in 2015 to my frie...