Ramon Novarro's 1968 murder, with its scandalous homophobic overtones, has tended to obscure his place in film history as Hollywood's first Latin American leading man. To its credit, Andre Soares' ...

The dashing silent film-era actor was beaten to death in the bedroom of his Studio City home in 1968. Twelve years later another actor, Ryan Gene Kelley, moved into the same hacienda. “He had it ...

Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office ...

Anybody who looked anything other than Anglo or northern European was cast to play everything from Italians, to Spaniards, Greeks, Hungarians, Arabs and Persians. For a time in the US Valentino was ...