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Jan272017
The Sex Appeal of Garbo, Valentino and a 150-Year-Old Novelist
Friday, January 27, 2017 at 8:23PM
By either bizarre coincidence or brilliant intuition, Greta Garbo and Rudolph Valentino began their careers in nearly the same way. Both achieved overnight success with adaptations of one Spanish novelist, a writer who has almost entirely faded from popular consciousness since then. At the time, though, he was more famous than either actor.