Editing Rudolph Valentino (section)

==Early life==
===Childhood and emigration===
[[File:Young Rudolph Valentino 02.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Valentino as a boy]]
Valentino was born in [[Castellaneta]], [[Apulia]], [[Italy]] and named Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella.<ref name="statearchives">{{cite web |url=http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/v/Archivio+di+Stato+di+Taranto/Stato+civile+italiano/Castellaneta/Nati/1895/34/005233047_00417.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=0 |title=Immagine 127 / Image 127 [ Birth certificate no 182 ] |date=May 9, 1895 |access-date=December 28, 2016 |publisher=Archivio di Stato di Castellaneta / States Archives in Castellaneta > Antenati: Gli Archivi per la Ricerca Anagrafica / Ancestors: Archives for Research Registry |language=it}} Birth name: Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi.</ref> His father, Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, was an [[Italian people|Italian]] from [[Martina Franca]], [[Apulia]]; he was a captain of cavalry in the Italian Army, later a veterinarian,<ref>Rudolph Valentino: His Romantic Life and Death, Ben-Allah Newman, Ben-Allah Company, 1926, p. 22</ref> who died of [[malaria]] when Valentino was 11. His mother, Marie Berthe Gabrielle Barbin (1856–1918), was [[French people|French]] with [[Turin|Torinese]] ancestry (the original family name was Barbini, gallicized to Barbin later on), born in [[Lure, Haute-Saône|Lure]] in the [[Franche-Comté]] region.<ref name="walker">Walker, Alexander. ''Rudolph Valentino.'' Stein and Day, 1976. {{ISBN|0-8128-2098-3}}.</ref><ref name=pop>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201243 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511062035/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201243/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 11, 2009 |title=St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Rudolph Valentino |last=Gregg |first=Jill A.  |access-date=April 7, 2008 |work=St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture |year=2002}}</ref><ref name="google">[[#Leider|Leider]], p. 14</ref> She was lady-in-waiting to a local marquess. Valentino had an older brother, Alberto (1892–1981), a younger sister, Maria, and an older sister, Beatrice, who had died in infancy.<ref name="leider1">[[#Leider|Leider]], pp. 1–3</ref>

As a child, Valentino was indulged because of his exceptional looks and his playful personality. His mother coddled him, while his father disapproved of him. He did poorly in school and was eventually enrolled in agricultural school in [[Genoa]], where he earned a certificate.<ref name="leider20">[[#Leider|Leider]], pp. 20–40.</ref>

After living in [[Paris]] in 1912, he soon returned to Italy. Unable to secure employment, he departed for the United States in 1913.<ref name="leider41">[[#Leider|Leider]], pp. 41–60</ref> He was processed at [[Ellis Island]] at age 18 on December 23, 1913.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passRecord.asp?pID=100823030192 |title=The Statue of Liberty&nbsp;– Ellis Island Foundation, Inc |publisher=Ellisisland.org  |access-date=May 15, 2010}}</ref>

Valentino never applied for United States citizenship, and retained his Italian citizenship.

===New York===
Arriving in New York City, he supported himself with odd jobs such as busing tables in restaurants and gardening.<ref name="leider41" /> Valentino once worked as a bus boy at Murray's on 42nd Street and was well liked, but didn't do a good job and was fired. While he was living on the streets, Valentino would occasionally come back to Murray's for lunch and the staff would slip him some food. Around 1914, restaurateur Joe Pani who owned Castles-by-the-Sea, the Colony, and the Woodmansten Inn was the first to hire Rudolph to dance the [[tango]] with [[Joan Sawyer (dancer)|Joan Sawyer]] for $50 per week.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mok|first1=Michel|title=Joe Pani, Purveyor of Epicurean Viands, Once Staked Valentino to Coffee and Cakes|journal=The New York Post|date=June 15, 1939|page=15}}</ref> Eventually, he found work as a [[taxi dancer]] at Maxim's Restaurant-Cabaret.<ref name=embezzler>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/38/ |title=Embezzler of Hearts |last=Robinson |first=David |date=June 2004 |magazine=Sight & Sound |access-date=April 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022023833/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/38/ |archive-date=October 22, 2008 }}</ref> Among the other dancers at Maxim's were several displaced members of European nobility, for whom a premium demand existed.

Valentino eventually befriended [[Chile]]an heiress [[Blanca Errázuriz|Blanca de Saulles]], who was unhappily married to businessman [[John de Saulles]], with whom she had a son. Whether Blanca and Valentino actually had a romantic relationship is unknown, but when the de Saulles divorced, Valentino took the stand to support Blanca de Saulles's claims of infidelity on her husband's part. Following the divorce, John de Saulles reportedly used his political connections to have Valentino arrested, along with a Mrs. Thyme, a known madam, on some unspecified vice charges. The evidence was flimsy at best, and after a few days in jail, Valentino's bail was lowered from $10,000 to $1,500.<ref name="leider61">[[#Leider|Leider]], pp. 61–85</ref>

Shortly after the trial, Blanca de Saulles fatally shot her ex-husband during a custody dispute over their son. Following his own well-publicised trial and the subsequent scandal over the murder, Valentino could not find employment. Fearful of being called in as a witness in another sensational trial, Valentino left town and joined a traveling musical that led him to the West Coast.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parish |first=James Robert |title=The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds |publisher=McGraw-Hill Professional |year=2004 |isbn=0-07-142189-0}}</ref>