Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor and film star, 1926. Valentino (1895-1926) rose to fame in 1921 when he danced the tango in the film adaptation of Blasco Ibanez’s book, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His death at the age of 31 caused hysteria among his many female fans.
‘Cherubs – the Quarrel’, statue in the gardens of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 1954. Lead garden figures on a plinth. Photographed for the National Buildings Record.
