Several guests are gathered to watch
Lewis Allen's film
Valentino (1951) and answer questions asked by audience members who call the show. Jeanne-Marie Recqueville, a journalist and specialist of the actor shares her biographical knowledge. Charles Ford, a movie historian, gives the historical background of the time. Louise Lagrange, former member of the Académie Française who acted with Valentino in
A Sainted Devil (1924) tells of her experience shooting the film. Yvonne Legeay, friend of Valentino and his wife, who is wearing a necklace that the actor wore in the film
The Sheik (1921), recollects her friendship with the couple and her last meeting with the star. Paul Ivano, cinematographer in Hollywood, friend of the actor and his roommate at the beginning of his career, gives precisions about the actor's death. According to him, actress
Ann Pennington told him that she was with Valentino at a party with the Mayor of New York, Jimmy Walker, Industrialist Mr. Ingersolll, Mr. Vanderbilt, they both went in a room and she went out to fetch a glass of water and when she returned, he was lying in a pool of blood. Mme Recqueville says that Dr. Meeker's death report contradicts that. Maurice Bessy, film historian, who was in charge or responding fan mail of a French film magazine in the 1930s, and who testifies of the actor's enduring legacy. Violette Morin, a sociologist, analyzes this very impact.
—Greg Philip {greg_philip@hotmail.com}