Valentino by Bob Sinfield

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Alan Cumming stars in a dramatised biography of the silent screen's greatest romantic hero, Rudolph Valentino. Born in Italy, Valentino persuaded his mother to finance a trip to America where he learnt to dance. Accused of blackmail and after an affair in which his girlfriend shot her husband, he fled to California and entered the heart of the entertainment industry. Fame and fortune followed but not without complications... Rudolph Valentino .... Alan Cumming June Mathis ... Denise Coffey Jean Acker .... Rebecca Front Natacha Rambova ... Lorelei King Bob Leonard ... Mark Caven Jack de Saulles - Dick Vosburgh Dramatised and directed by Bob Sinfield First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1995.