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Valentino

Title: Valentino [videorecording] / United Artists ; director, Ken Russell ; producers, Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; screenplay, Ken Russell and Mardik Martin.
Publication: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1993, c1977.

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Description

1 videocassette (128 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Film biography of the legendary silent movie star Rudolph Valentino.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies.
Dance.
Motion pictures.
Features.

Note

Motion picture originally released by United Artists in 1977; re-released as a videotape in 1993 by MGM/UA Home Video, Santa Monica, CA.

Credits (note)

Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky ; choreography, Gillian Gregory, assisted by Michael Vernon ; original music, Ferde Grofé and Stanley Black ; screenplay based on the book Valentino, an intimate exposé of the sheik, by Brad Steiger and Chaw Mank ; art direction, Philip Harrison ; costumes, Shirley Russell.

Performer (note)

Rudolf Nureyev (Rudolph Valentino), Leslie Caron (Alla Nazimova), Michelle Phillips (Natacha Rambova), Carol Kane (Fatty's girl), Felicity Kendal (June Mathis), Seymour Cassell (George Ullman), Huntz Hall (Jesse Lasky), Leland Palmer (Marjorie Tain), Anthony Dowell (Nijinsky), Penelope Milford (Lorna Sinclair), June Bolton (Bianca de Saulles), Robin Clark (Jack de Saulles), William Hootkins (Fatty), Nicolette Marvin (Marsha Lee), Jennie Linden (Agnes Ayres), and others.

Contents

Dance contents: [Tango lesson] / performed by Nureyev and Dowell, followed by brief ballet solo by Dowell -- [Tango at Maxim's tearoom] / performed by Nureyev and Mildred Shay -- [Tap dance with top hat and cane] / performed by Nureyev -- [Exhibition waltz in cabaret] / performed by Nureyev and Palmer -- [Tango] / performed by Nureyev and Kane -- [Tango scene from the film Four horsemen of the apocalypse] / performed by Nureyev and Christine Carlson -- [Photographic session with Nureyev, Caron, and Phillips costumed as dancers in Nijinsky's ballet Afternoon of a faun] -- [Tango exhibition] / performed by Nureyev and Phillips -- "What have you done to the U.S. male" / performed by female ensemble.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1934

ISBN

0792822641

OCLC

78045929
NYPY94-F3

Title

Valentino [videorecording] / United Artists ; director, Ken Russell ; producers, Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; screenplay, Ken Russell and Mardik Martin.

Imprint

Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1993, c1977.

Credits

Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky ; choreography, Gillian Gregory, assisted by Michael Vernon ; original music, Ferde Grofé and Stanley Black ; screenplay based on the book Valentino, an intimate exposé of the sheik, by Brad Steiger and Chaw Mank ; art direction, Philip Harrison ; costumes, Shirley Russell.

Cast

Rudolf Nureyev (Rudolph Valentino), Leslie Caron (Alla Nazimova), Michelle Phillips (Natacha Rambova), Carol Kane (Fatty's girl), Felicity Kendal (June Mathis), Seymour Cassell (George Ullman), Huntz Hall (Jesse Lasky), Leland Palmer (Marjorie Tain), Anthony Dowell (Nijinsky), Penelope Milford (Lorna Sinclair), June Bolton (Bianca de Saulles), Robin Clark (Jack de Saulles), William Hootkins (Fatty), Nicolette Marvin (Marsha Lee), Jennie Linden (Agnes Ayres), and others.

Added Author

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993. Actor

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Caron, Leslie. Performer

Phillips, Michelle, 1944- Performer

Kane, Carol, 1952- Performer

Kendal, Felicity. Performer

Hall, Huntz, 1920- Performer

Palmer, Leland. Performer

Dowell, Anthony. act, dancer.

Milford, Penelope. Performer

Linden, Jennie, 1939- Performer

Carlson, Christine, dancer.

Russell, Ken, 1927-2011, film director.

Russell, Ken, 1927-2011, screenwriter.

Gregory, Gillian, choreographer.

Vernon, Michael, choreographer.

Winkler, Irwin. Producer

Chartoff, Robert. Producer

Grofé, Ferde, 1892-1972. Composer

United Artists Corporation.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1934

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