
Rudolph Valentino (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 10)
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Rudolpho and the Tango Pirates
Rudolpho was hired as a taxi dancer at maxims. This kind of work wasn't sex work, per say, but it was sometimes perceived as being adjacent to it. Rudolpho supplemented his income by working occasionally as a costumed extra in movies. He assumed that because his olive colored skin was so dark compared to that of the all american innocents that floated through griffith aracinema, he would only find work playing villains. His compromised version of stardam was endangered after rudolpho became wrapped up in one of the biggest new york scandals of the teens.
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