It introduced American audiences and especially American women to a glamorous international money aristocracy shuttling between Buenos Aires and Paris, between dives and thé dansants, studios and salons
Such milieus had been presented on the screen beforebut always with frowning disapproval Nor was the Latin Lover a novelty Probably half the villains of the prewar screen were Latinbut they were sneering, greasy, black-hearted cads
Now the same character reappeared as a romantic Apollo who treated women with courtesy and deference but whose eyes promised (what the villains had threatened) that behind the deference, and behind the bedroom door, other, more exciting qualities would emergeskill and experience
The magnetic pull Valentino exerted on millions of women signaled that they were tired of awkward love-making, on screen and off
Such milieus had been presented on the screen beforebut always with frowning disapproval Nor was the Latin Lover a novelty Probably half the villains of the prewar screen were Latinbut they were sneering, greasy, black-hearted cads
Now the same character reappeared as a romantic Apollo who treated women with courtesy and deference but whose eyes promised (what the villains had threatened) that behind the deference, and behind the bedroom door, other, more exciting qualities would emergeskill and experience
The magnetic pull Valentino exerted on millions of women signaled that they were tired of awkward love-making, on screen and off