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Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego, best known as Ramón Novarro (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), was a Mexican-American film, stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino.
Novarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899 in Durango, Mexico, to Dr. Mariano N. Samaniego, and his wife, Leonor (Gavilan). The family moved to Los Angeles, California, to escape the Mexican Revolution in 1913. Novarros's direct ancestors came from the Castilian town of Burgos from where two brothers emigrated to the New World in the seventeenth century.
Allan Ellenberger, Novarro's biographer, writes:
The family estate was called the "Garden of Eden". Thirteen children were born there: Emilio; Guadalupe; Rosa; Ramón; Leonor; Mariano; Luz; Antonio; José; a stillborn child; Carmen; Ángel and Eduardo. At the time of the revolution in Mexico, the family moved from Durango to Mexico City and then back to Durango. Three of Ramón's sisters, Guadalupe, Rosa, and Leonor, became nuns. He was a second cousin of the Mexican actresses Dolores del Río and Andrea Palma.
Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch Frisian exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.
Margaretha Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. She was the eldest of four children of Adam Zelle (2 October 1840 – 13 March 1910) and his first wife Antje van der Meulen (21 April 1842 – 9 May 1891). She had three brothers. Her father owned a hat shop, made successful investments in the oil industry, and became affluent enough to give Margaretha a lavish early childhood that included exclusive schools until the age of 13.
Soon after Margaretha's father went bankrupt in 1889, her parents divorced, and then her mother died in 1891. Her father remarried in Amsterdam on 9 February 1893 to Susanna Catharina ten Hoove (11 March 1844 – 1 December 1913), by whom he had no children. The family fell apart, and Margaretha moved to live with her godfather, Mr. Visser, in Sneek. In Leiden, she studied to be a kindergarten teacher, but when the headmaster began to flirt with her conspicuously, she was removed from the institution by her offended godfather. A few months later, she fled to her uncle's home in The Hague.
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.
As a Hollywood star he appeared in 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film, The Ten Commandments (1956), for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. He also starred in Touch of Evil (1958) with Orson Welles; Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (1959); El Cid (1961); and Planet of the Apes (1968). He also starred in the films The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); Secret of the Incas (1954); The Big Country (1958); and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965).
A supporter of Democratic politicians and civil rights in the 1960s, Heston later became a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. Heston's most famous role in politics came as the five-term president of the National Rifle Association, from 1998 to 2003. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003, he retired from both acting and the NRA presidency. Heston died on April 5, 2008, aged 84, from pneumonia.
SIlent Movie star Ramon Novarro, achieved his greatest success in Ben-Hur in 1925. Tragically he was brutally murdered on Halloween day in 1968. I'm very sorry for the time code bar - but this is the only copy I have. This show is impossible to find anywhere else.
Scene from the 1931 film 'Daybreak'. Ramon Novarro thrilled the ladies of the 1930s with this scene. Copyrights belong to owners.
Stewart Copeland talks about Ramón Novarro (Ben-Hur), who became Hollywood's first gay icon in the MGM 1925 silent film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It's music and a movie, together on the VPAC stage! Composed by drummer Stewart Copeland, don't miss him rock out his hometown with the Pacific Symphony under the baton of CSUN alum Richard Kaufman MAR 16. For tickets, info, and more videos: http://goo.gl/nB1Fav Follow us on social media @VPACatCSUN
DAYBREAK (1931) Starring: Ramon Novarro, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt I claim no rights of any kind; for sharing only. Wm. Thomas Sherman, wts@gunjones.com, www.mn-hp.com
Ramón Novarro fue una de las estrellas más conocidas de Hollywood a principios de siglo. La Noche De... desvela los secretos de su vida y su violento asesinato
Rare clip of Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in Mata Hari
"Lonely" (1930) Sung by Ramon Novarro Ramon Novarro, the actor who is singing here, was gay and was forced to retired in 1935 because he didn't want to marry a woman for the sake of the sexual conformity. The Hollywood studios demanded this because of the rising tide of conservatism and the revival of religion that swept the United States around 1934-1935 which marked the death of liberalism and secularism until the late 1960's.
Ramon Novarro sings "The Night Is Young" (1935) by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II.
This is a biography on mexican american silent actor Ramon Novarro. As im going on vacation soon i wont be uploading videos for a couple of days but stay tuned for next i will be posting some florence la badie silent films and more tribute videos.
Ramón Novarro was a Mexican film, stage and television actor who began his career as a leading man in silent films in 1917. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino.
This is the death certificate for Ramon Novarro!
'The night Ben-Hur comes to Broadway'. Hollywood stars including Charlton Heston, arrive for the film premiere of 'Ben-Hur'. Broadway, New York. United States of America (USA). MS's of New York's busy Broadway at night. MS's theatre sign 'Ben-Hur'. LS panning shot of crowd cordoned off. MS Adolph Zukor arriving. MS MGM Production Chief Sol C Siegel and Maurice Silverstein. MS Eugene Picker, President of Loew's Theatre, arriving. MS William Wyler and wife arriving. CU crowd cheering. MS Charlton Heston arriving with his wife. CU's photographers. MS Charlton Heston, Mrs Heston, Mr Joseph Vogel and wife. MS crowd. Various shots Charlton Heston shaking hands with Ramon Novarro. CU Heston with Haya Harareet. CU Stephen Boyd and Martha Scott, Boyd kisses her. LS crowd on balcony pan do...