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August 23, 2013 marks the 87th anniversary of the death of silent film superstar Rudolph Valentino who died in New York City on August 23, 1926.  Those of you who are frequent readers of this blog will remember that I have been fascinated with the life and career of Valentino for over forty years.  

Every August 23rd since 1927 there has been a memorial service for Valentino at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (formerly Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery) in the Cathedral Mausoleum where he is interred.  The service starts precisely at 12:10 PM which is the time Valentino died in New York - although 12:10 New York time would really be 3:10 Los Angeles time.  

I attended my first Valentino Memorial Service in the 1980s and for many years I was one of the featured speakers at the service which remembers Valentino as "The Greatest of Them All."

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