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| listal.com |
"Actor Ramon Novarro was born 125 years ago today, on 06-February-1899. He was born in Mexico, but his family emigrated to the United States in 1913 to get away from the Mexican Revolution. By the mid-1920s, he was a popular Latin lover" in Hollywood films. His career as a star was over by the mid-1930s, but he continued to act in smaller parts. He struggled to deal with his devout Catholicism and his homosexuality.
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| listal.com |
Novarro replaced George Walsh as the title character in the troubled production of Ben Hur. I liked him better than Charlton Heston.
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| Motion Picture News, 08-September-1923 |
I also liked him in Rex Ingram's adaption of Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche.
In 1968 two cowards robbed and murdered Ramon Novarro.
