In his short life, he had become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars and the definitive male s e x symbol of the 1920s. Here’s a look at his spectacular rise.

The site of ’20s and ’30s starlet Thelma Todd’s tragic—and confounding—death is still standing in the devastated Palisades.

For a tragically brief time in the 1920s, Rudolph Valentino romanced the world. The “Latin Lover” was one of the biggest stars on the silver screen—and when his life was cut brutally short at the ...