{"id":3501,"date":"2025-08-24T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:53:21","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-the-son-of-the-sheik-1921-and-rudolph-valentino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-the-son-of-the-sheik-1921-and-rudolph-valentino\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: The Son of the Sheik (1921) and Rudolph Valentino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rudolph Valentino and Vilma B\u00e1nky in The Son of the Sheik.\" class=\"wp-image-3503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vilma B\u00e1nky and Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik.\" class=\"wp-image-3504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A classic &#8220;You know who should be in charge of this Arabic country? The British&#8221; film. Lots of macho men and kept women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went through three different sources for this before I found a decent free print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rudolph-valentino.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Rudolph Valentino's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Rudolph Valentino.\" class=\"wp-image-3505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rudolph-valentino.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rudolph-valentino-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rudolph-valentino-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Valentino&#8217;s popularity was dropping when this came out, but then he died on the press tour and this movie became huge. He has a great face, but he looks better when you don&#8217;t see the rest of his head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonus: there&#8217;s a pretty big part for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-show-people-1928-and-karl-dane\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karl Dane<\/a>&#8211; much larger than the film I specifically watched to see him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s fake poster is from another movie that uses the &#8220;[blank] of the [blank]&#8221; format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for The Son of the Sheik mimicking the poster for The Day of the Jackal.\" class=\"wp-image-3502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-son-of-the-sheik.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie that&#8217;s probably responsible for every sequel to a popular film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[357,78,10,367,358],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-silent-movie","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}