The 1925 silent Ben-Hur stunned audiences with epic chariots and drama, paving the way for the legendary 1959 remake.
Ramon Novarro's 1968 murder, with its scandalous homophobic overtones, has tended to obscure his place in film history as Hollywood's first Latin American leading man. To its credit, Andre Soares' ...
Although the handsome Mexican-born Ramon Novarro (1899-1968) is remembered almost entirely for the silent “Ben-Hur,” he was second only to Rudolph Valentino as a “Latin lover” of the silver screen.
The dashing silent film-era actor was beaten to death in the bedroom of his Studio City home in 1968. Twelve years later another actor, Ryan Gene Kelley, moved into the same hacienda. “He had it ...
Under the name Ramon Novarro, the Mexican American actor José Ramón Gil Samaniego became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the 1920s and early 1930s. After the famously handsome actor’s success in ...
Anybody who looked anything other than Anglo or northern European was cast to play everything from Italians, to Spaniards, Greeks, Hungarians, Arabs and Persians. For a time in the US Valentino was ...
The Lloyd Wright-designed Samuel-Novarro House in Hollywood Hills has sold for $3.8 million. The Los Angeles landmark has had several celebrity owners over the years. The dramatic Art Deco-style house ...
2006-04-30 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Its role as home to film stars has spanned decades. Now, the distinctive house in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles is on the market for $3.1 million.
The Novarro House, Lloyd Wright’s Mayan-inspired Art Deco masterpiece, is back on the market after last having sold in 2014. Silent film star Ramon Novarro commissioned the home in 1928 for his, erm, ...