#sheiks

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A 1926 Motion Picture Classic filler article about the high cost of Valentino’s The Son of the Sheik garb. A $300 jeweled cigarette case is just the tip of the iceberg!

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The Bystander, England, April 11, 1928

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love loves you sticker graffiti street art found in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, that depicts a red umbrella, an aquamarine figure, and these decipherable alphanumerics: love loves you

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Time, Burgundy Ballroom, Memphis, TN, 2013

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We’re all familiar with stereotypical 1920s flapper–the fun-loving, trendy young woman who loved Jazz, dancing, and all things “modern.” But arm in arm with the flapper was …

The first post of Sheik Month for my blog Silent-ology is here! Today we’re exploring the history and context of the 1920s “sheik” craze--the “sheik” being a powerful, “exotic” lover from desert romance films. The term would be soon used to describe the kind of fashionable young men who liked jazz and hanging out with flappers. The More You Know!

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Thoughts On: “The Son of the Sheik” (1926)

This is the final day and final post of Sheik Month. I hope you’ve enjoyed this look at Roaring Twenties sheik culture, and thank you kindly for stopping by! And I’m looking forward to …

This is the last post of Sheik Month on Silent-ology (posted yesterday)! It's such a pity Rudy left us so soon, but at least his final performance was a magnificent one.

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Ramon Novarro, “Latin Lover” Of The Silent Screen

During the heyday of Rudolph Valentino, studios scrambled to find their own versions of a “sheik”–that passionate, menacing “exotic” lover women’s hearts were fl…

My latest Sheik Month article on my blog is about the talented (and genetically blessed) artist Ramon Novarro, star of Ben-Hur (1925) among other classics.