:Ramon Novarro
{{Short description|Mexican actor (1899–1968)}}
{{family name hatnote|Samaniego}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2022}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ramon Novarro
| image = Ramón Novarro, circa 1934 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Novarro, {{circa|1934}}
| birth_name = Ramón Gil Samaniego
| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|2|6|mf=yes}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|10|30|1899|2|6|mf=yes}}
| death_place = North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
| death_cause = Asphyxiation (murdered)
| resting_place = Calvary Cemetery
| other_names = {{unbulleted list|Ramon Samaniego|Ramón Samaniego|Ramon Samaniegos}}
| years_active = 1917–1968
| relatives = Dolores del Río (cousin)
Andrea Palma (cousin)
Julio Bracho (cousin)
| awards = Hollywood Walk of Fame (Motion Picture)
}}
Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), 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 attractions of the 1920s and early '30s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino. He is recognized as the first Latin American actor to succeed in Hollywood.
Early life
Novarro was born Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899, in Durango City, Durango, north-west Mexico, to Dr. Mariano N. Samaniego, and his wife, Leonor Pérez Gavilán. The family moved to Los Angeles to escape the Mexican Revolution in 1913.{{cite book |last=Meier |first=Matt S. |author2=Gutiérrez, Margo |title=The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/mexicanamericane0000meie |url-access=registration |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2003 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mexicanamericane0000meie/page/284 284] |isbn=0-313-31643-0}} Novarro's direct ancestors came from the Castilian town of Burgos, whence two brothers emigrated to the New World in the seventeenth century.{{cite book |last=Soares |first=André |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjWd5flL0dwC&q=burgos&pg=PA1 |title=Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro |date=April 19, 2010 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-6047-3458-4 |page=5 |access-date=April 7, 2024}}
Allan Ellenberger, Novarro's biographer, writes:
{{Blockquote|The Samaniegos were an influential and well-respected family in Mexico. Many Samaniegos had prominent positions in the affairs of state and were held in high esteem by the president. Ramon's grandfather, Mariano Samaniego, was a well-known physician in Juarez. Known as a charitable and outgoing man, he was once an interim governor for the State of Chihuahua and was the first city councilman of El Paso, Texas....
Ramon's father, Dr. Mariano N. Samaniego, was born in Juarez and attended high school in Las Cruces, New Mexico. After receiving his degree in dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, he moved to Durango, Mexico, and began a flourishing dental practice. In 1891 he married Leonor Pérez-Gavilán, the beautiful daughter of a prosperous landowner. The Pérez-Gaviláns were a mixture of Spanish and Aztec blood, and according to local legend, they were descended from Guerrero, a prince of Montezuma.{{cite book |last=Ellenberger |first=Allan R. |title=Ramon Novarro: A Biography of the Silent Film Idol, 1899–1968; with a Filmography |year=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-4676-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5RScgSVy3IC |pages=5–6}}}}
The family estate was called the "Garden of Eden". Thirteen children were born there: Emilio; Guadalupe; Rosa; Ramón; Leonor; Mariano; Luz; Antonio; José; a stillborn child; Carmen; Ángel and Eduardo. At the time of the Mexican Revolution, the family moved from Durango to Mexico City and then returned to Durango. Three of Ramón's sisters, Guadalupe, Rosa, and Leonor, became nuns.{{harvnb|Ellenberger|2009|pp=8–9}} He was a second cousin of the Mexican actresses Dolores del Río{{cite book |last=Monush |first=Barry |title=Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toTIb1Ek2WwC&q=novarro |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |year=2003 |page=188 |isbn=978-1-5578-3551-2}} and Andrea Palma.
Career
= Silent films =
File:NovarroCrawford.jpg in Across to Singapore (1928)]]
Novarro began his film career in 1917, playing bit parts, supplementing his income by working as a singing waiter, a taxi dancer and as a dancer in revues choreographed by Ernest Belcher (father of Marge Champion). His friends, actor and director Rex Ingram and his wife, actress Alice Terry, began to promote him as a rival to Rudolph Valentino, and Ingram suggested he change his name to "Novarro"."Novarro" is a misspelling for the Spanish surname "Navarro". From 1923, he began to play more prominent roles. His role in Scaramouche (1923) brought him his first major success.
Novarro achieved his greatest success in 1925, in Ben-Hur. His revealing costumes caused a sensation. He was elevated into the Hollywood elite.{{cite web |last=Rodriguez |first=Roberto |year=1996 |url=http://diverseeducation.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516071635/http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7443.shtml |title=The early years – the portrayal of minorities in Hollywood film industry |work=Black Issues in Higher Education |archive-date=May 16, 2007 |access-date=February 26, 2014}} As did many stars, Novarro engaged Sylvia of Hollywood as a physical therapist (although in her tell-all book, Sylvia erroneously claimed that Novarro slept in a coffin).{{cite book |title=Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia As Noted by Her Secretary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idZBAAAAIAAJ&q=novarro |year=1931 |publisher=Brentano's |access-date=February 26, 2014}} With Valentino's death in 1926, Novarro became the screen's leading Latin actor, though ranked lower than his MGM contemporary John Gilbert as a leading man. Novarro was popular as a swashbuckler in action roles, and considered one of the great romantic lead actors of his day. He appeared with Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) and with Joan Crawford in Across to Singapore (1928).
= Talking films =
He made his first talking film, starring as a singing French soldier, in Devil-May-Care (1929). He starred with Dorothy Janis in The Pagan (1929), with Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931), with Myrna Loy in The Barbarian (1933) and opposite Lupe Vélez in Laughing Boy (1934).
When his contract with MGM Studios expired in 1935 and the studio did not renew it, Novarro continued to act sporadically, appearing in films for Republic Pictures, a Mexican religious drama, and a French comedy. In the 1940s, he had several small roles in American films, including We Were Strangers (1949), directed by John Huston and starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield. In 1958, he was considered for a role in the television series The Green Peacock, with Howard Duff and Ida Lupino, after their CBS Television sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve (1957–58). The project, however, never materialized. A Broadway tryout was aborted in the 1960s. Novarro kept busy on television, appearing in NBC's The High Chaparral as late as 1968.
At the peak of his success in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Novarro was earning more than US$100,000 per film. He invested some of his income in real estate, and his Hollywood Hills residence, the Samuel-Novarro House, is one of the more renowned designs (1927) by Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright.{{cite web |title=Lloyd Wright (1890–1978) |url=http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/artists_pages/lloyd_wright.html |publisher=ArchitechGallery.com |access-date=June 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707155954/http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/artists_pages/lloyd_wright.html |archive-date=July 7, 2011}} When his career ended, he was still able to maintain a comfortable lifestyle.
Personal life
File:Ramon Novarro and Lupe Velez in Laughing Boy trailer.jpg in Laughing Boy (1934)]]
In 1925, Novarro purchased a home in "the exclusive West Adams district" of Los Angeles for $12,000 and spent an additional $100,000 on renovations.{{cite book |last1=Elenberger |first1=Allan R. |title=Ramon Vovarro: A Biography |date=July 11, 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476607825 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnUwCgAAQBAJ&dq=ramon+novarro+west+adams&pg=PA57 |access-date=July 4, 2024 |quote=He purchased an old fashioned roomy house at 2265 W. 22nd Street in the exclusive West Adams District for $12,000. He spent $100,000 on the renovation, which took several months.}}{{cite web |title=Ramon Novarro |url=https://westadamsheritage.org/read/459 |website=West Adams Heritage Association |access-date=July 4, 2024 |quote=In 1925 Novarro purchased a house at 2265 West 22nd Street in West Adams for $12,000. He spent $100,000 on the renovation, adding a private wing with a suite of dressing rooms, servants' quarters, and his own theatre.}}
Novarro was troubled all his life by his conflicted feelings toward his Roman Catholic faith and his homosexuality.{{harvnb|Ellenberger|2009|p=148}} His life-long struggle with alcoholism is often traced to these problems.{{harvnb|Soares|2010|p=245}}{{cite book |last=Mann |first=William |title=Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e31ZAAAAMAAJ&q=novarro |location=New York City |publisher=Penguin Books |page=97 |isbn=978-0-14-200114-1 |year=2002}}{{cite web |title=Ramon {{sic|Navarro|nolink=y}} |url=http://www.olvera-street.com/html/ramon_navarro.html |publisher=Olvera-street.com |access-date=June 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328221546/http://www.olvera-street.com/html/ramon_navarro.html |archive-date=March 28, 2010}} In the early 1920s, Novarro had a romantic relationship with composer Harry Partch, who was working as an usher at the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the time, but Novarro broke off the affair as he achieved greater success as an actor.{{cite book |title=Harry Partch: A Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/harrypartchbiogr0000gilm |url-access=registration |first=Bob |last=Gilmore |author-link=Bob Gilmore |year=1998 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0-300-06521-3}}{{cite news |last=Holliday |first=Peter J |title=Novarro, Ramon (1899–1968) |periodical=glbtq.com |url=http://www.glbtq.com/arts/novarro_r.html |access-date=November 1, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107184321/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/novarro_r.html |archive-date=November 7, 2007}} He was romantically involved with Hollywood journalist Herbert Howe, who was also his publicist in the late 1920s,{{cite book |title=Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine |page=79 |first=Anthony |last=Slide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hDG6auRCJ4C&q=ramon+novarro |date=February 26, 2010 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-60473-413-3 |access-date=February 26, 2014 |archive-date=January 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109045809/https://books.google.com/books?id=5hDG6auRCJ4C&q=ramon+novarro |url-status=live }} and with a wealthy philanthropist and arts patron from San Francisco, Noël Sullivan.{{cite web |title=Finding Aid to the Noël Sullivan papers, [ca. 1911–1956], [ca. 1911–1956] |url=http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/bancroft/mcb801_cubanc.pdf |access-date=December 25, 2017 |archive-date=December 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226021647/http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/bancroft/mcb801_cubanc.pdf |url-status=live }}
Along with Dolores del Río, Lupe Vélez and James Cagney, Novarro was accused of promoting communism in California after they attended a special screening of the film ¡Que viva México! by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
Murder
Novarro was murdered on October 30, 1968, by brothers Paul and Tom Ferguson, aged 22 and 17, who called him and offered their sexual services. In the past, he had hired prostitutes from an agency to come to his Laurel Canyon home for sex, and the Fergusons obtained Novarro's telephone number from a previous guest.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-24-bk-rechy24-story.html |title=A star is killed: Hollywood's deadly secret |date=August 24, 2003 |access-date=March 5, 2019 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=John |last=Rechy |author-link=John Rechy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712053930/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/24/books/bk-rechy24 |archive-date=July 12, 2018}}{{cite news |title=Ramon Novarro Slain on Coast. Starred in Silent Film 'Ben-Hur'. Ramon Novarro, Silent Era Star, Slain |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/11/01/archives/ramon-novarro-slain-on-coast-starred-in-silent-film-benhur-ramon.html |quote=Ramon Novarro, the Mexican-born star of scores of Hollywood movies made in the nineteen-twenties and thirties, was found bludgeoned to death in his $125,000 Hollywood Hills home early this morning. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 1, 1968 |access-date=September 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218205932/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E4D71530E034BC4953DFB7678383679EDE |archive-date=February 18, 2015 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.crimemagazine.com/Celebrities/ramonnov.htm |title=The Murder of Ramon Novarro |last=Maloney |first=J. J. |website=Crime Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106044813/http://crimemagazine.com/Celebrities/ramonnov.htm |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |access-date=March 5, 2019 |editor-first=Pat |editor-last=O'Connor}}
According to the prosecution in the murder case, the two young men believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarro's house. The prosecution accused the brothers of torturing Novarro for several hours to force him to reveal where the (non-existent) money was hidden. They left the house with $20 they took from his bathrobe pocket. Novarro died as a result of asphyxiation, having choked to death on his own blood after being beaten.{{harvnb|Ellenberger|2009|pp=182, 187}} The two perpetrators were caught and sentenced to long prison terms, but released on parole in the mid-1970s. Both were later re-arrested for unrelated crimes for which they served longer prison terms than for the murder of Novarro.{{harvnb|Ellenberger|2009|p=196}} In a 1998 interview, Paul Ferguson finally assumed the blame for Novarro's death.{{cite news |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/memoir/07/21/beyond-paradise-the-life-of-ramon-navarro-by-andre-soares/ |title='Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Navarro' by Andre Soares |first=Randall |last=Ivey |date=July 21, 2010 |access-date=March 5, 2019 |work=Lambda Literary |archive-date=February 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228202718/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/memoir/07/21/beyond-paradise-the-life-of-ramon-navarro-by-andre-soares/ |url-status=live }} Tom Ferguson committed suicide on March 6, 2005. Paul Ferguson was beaten to death in prison by a fellow inmate in 2018, while serving out a 60-year sentence for rape in Missouri.{{cite web |url=https://www.out.com/2012/05/23/Ramon-Novarro-hustlers-murder-hollywood |title='Ramon Navarro Hustler's Murder in Hollywood |date=May 23, 2012 |access-date=March 30, 2020 |archive-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422095453/https://www.out.com/2012/05/23/Ramon-Novarro-hustlers-murder-hollywood |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|date=August 9, 2020|title=Was Ramon Novarro's Murderer Posting on IMDb from Prison?|url=https://highshrink.com/2020/08/08/was-ramon-novarros-murderer-posting-on-imdb-from-prison/|access-date=April 25, 2021|website=High Shrink|language=en}}{{Cite web |last=NOW |first=News-Press |date=February 21, 2020 |title=Inmate charged for beating fellow inmate to death |url=https://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/inmate-charged-for-beating-fellow-inmate-to-death/article_d7aae9d2-54e9-11ea-a0fd-231aa86091c4.html |access-date=October 17, 2024 |website=News-Press NOW |language=en}}
Novarro is buried in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California.{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Scott |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons |edition=3rd |publisher=McFarland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA374 |page=374 |date=August 14, 2016 |isbn=978-1-4766-2599-7}}
Novarro's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6350 Hollywood Boulevard.
In popular culture
- In a 1961 episode of the Car 54, Where Are You? TV show, Bonnie Kalsheim (guest-star Alice Ghostley) reveals that she was "ruined" by Ramon Novarro. When pressed for details, she admits that her adoration of the star's screen presence had made every other man distastefully unsuitable to her as a potential love match.
- Novarro's murder served as the basis for the short story by Charles Bukowski titled "The Murder of Ramon Vasquez", as well as for the song "Tango," by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, recorded by Peggy Lee on her Mirrors album.
- Novarro's murder is one of the events in 1960s-California mentioned in Joan Didion's essay "The White Album", included in the 1979 book of the same name.
- Greek playwright Pavlos Matesis wrote a play in two parts titled The Ghost of Mr. Ramon Novarro, which was first staged at the National Theatre of Greece in 1973.{{cite web |url=http://www.nt-archive.gr/playMaterial.aspx?playID=651 |title=Archives of the Greek National Theatre |language=el |access-date=March 5, 2019 |year=2008–2011 |work=NT Archiver |publisher=Εθνικό Θέατρο |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042832/http://www.nt-archive.gr/playMaterial.aspx?playID=651 |url-status=live }}
- Novarro's murder is briefly referenced in the sixth season The Sopranos episode "Cold Stones", following the violent murder of a closeted homosexual character.
- In late 2005, the Wings Theatre in New York City staged the world premiere of Through a Naked Lens by George Barthel. The play combined fact and fiction to depict Novarro's rise to fame and his relationship with Hollywood journalist Herbert Howe.
- Novarro's relationship with Howe is discussed in two biographies: Allan R. Ellenberger's Ramón Novarro and André Soares's Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramón Novarro.
- In 2015, the murder of Ramon Novarro was covered in the television series Aquarius in the episode "Cease to Resist".
- in the 2016 Hangar 13 videogame Mafia III, a news report on Ramon Novarro's murder can be heard on the car radio. The news anchor reports that he was "bludgeoned to death by unknown assailants".
Filmography
File:Ramón Novarro in The Saint That Forged a Country (1942).jpg in The Saint Who Forged a Country (1942)]]
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Film |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1916
| Starving Peasant | Uncredited |
| rowspan=4 | 1917
| The Jaguar's Claws | Bandit | Uncredited |
| The Little American
| Wounded Soldier | Uncredited |
| The Hostage
| | Uncredited |
| The Woman God Forgot
| Aztec man | Uncredited |
| 1918
| The Goat | | Uncredited |
| rowspan=4 | 1921
| Dancer | as Ramón Samaniego |
| The Concert
| Dancing shepherd | Uncredited |
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
| Guest at Ball (extra) | Uncredited |
| Man-Woman-Marriage
| Dancer | Uncredited |
| rowspan=3 | 1922
| Antonio | as Ramon Samaniego |
| The Prisoner of Zenda
| Rupert of Hentzau | as Ramon Samaniegos |
| Trifling Women
| Henri / Ivan de Maupin | Lost film |
| rowspan=2 | 1923
| Motauri | Lost film |
| Scaramouche
| André-Louis Moreau, Quintin's Godson | |
| rowspan=3 | 1924
| Juan Ricardo | |
| The Arab
| Jamil Abdullah Azam | |
| The Red Lily
| Jean Leonnec | |
| rowspan=3 | 1925
| Ben Ali |Lost film, but A.M.P.A.S. has 25 feet of this film |
| The Midshipman
| Dick Randall | |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
| Judah Ben-Hur | |
| rowspan=3 | 1927
| Lovers | José | Lost film |
| The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
| Crown Prince Karl Heinrich | |
| The Road to Romance
| José Armando | |
| rowspan=3 | 1928
| Joel Shore | |
| A Certain Young Man
| Lord Gerald Brinsley | Lost film |
| Forbidden Hours
| His Majesty, Michael IV | |
| rowspan=3 | 1929
| Ens. / Ltjg Tommy Winslow | |
| The Pagan
| Henry Shoesmith, Jr. | |
| Devil-May-Care
| Armand de Treville | |
| rowspan=4 | 1930
| Ricardo | |
| The March of Time
| Himself | Unfinished film |
| Call of the Flesh
| Juan de Dios | |
| Sevilla de mis amores
| Juan de Dios Carbajal | Spanish version of Call of the Flesh |
| rowspan=5 | 1931
| Le chanteur de Séville | Juan | French version of Call of the Flesh |
| Daybreak
| Willi Kasder | |
| Son of India
| Karim | |
| Mata Hari
| Lt. Alexis Rosanoff | |
| Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
| Himself | |
| rowspan=2 | 1932
| Huddle | Antonio "Tony" Amatto | |
| The Son-Daughter
| Tom Lee / Prince Chun | |
| 1933
| Jamil El Shehab | |
| rowspan=2 | 1934
| Victor Florescu | |
| Laughing Boy
| Laughing Boy | |
| 1935
| Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave | |
| 1936
| Against the Current | {{center|–}} | Director, writer |
| 1937
| Ahmed Ben Nesib | |
| 1938
| André Friezan | Alternative title: It Happened in Paris |
| rowspan=2 | 1940
| Félix | |
| Ecco la felicità
| Felice Ciatti | Italian version of La comédie du bonheur |
| 1942
| The Saint Who Forged a Country | |
| rowspan=2 | 1949
| Chief | |
| The Big Steal
| Inspector General Ortega | |
| rowspan=2 | 1950
| Don Antonio Chaves | |
| Crisis
| Colonel Adragon | |
| 1960
| De Leon | |
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Television |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1958
| Don Esteban Miranda | 2 episodes |
| 1962
| Thriller | Maestro Giuliano | Episode: "La Strega" |
| 1964
| Gaspero Paolini | 3 episodes |
| 1964–1965
| Combat! | Charles Gireaux | 2 episodes "Silver Service" & "Finest Hour" |
| 1965
| Bonanza | Jose Ortega | Episode: "The Brass Box" |
| 1967
| Don Tomas | Episode: "The Night of the Assassin" |
| 1968
| Padre Guillermo | Episode: "A Joyful Noise", (final appearance) |
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last= Ramírez |first= Gabriel |title= Crónica del cine mudo mexicano |year= 1989|location=México|publisher=Cineteca Nacional |isbn= 968-805-416-X }}
- {{cite book |last= Orozco |first= Federico |title= Albores del cine mexicano |year= 1996 |publisher= Editorial Clío |isbn= 968-6932-45-3 }}
- {{cite book |last= Ellenberger |first= Allan R. |title= Ramon Novarro: A Biography of the Silent Film Idol, 1899–1968, with a Filmography |url= https://archive.org/details/ramonnovarrobiog00elle |url-access= registration |year= 1999|location=New York|publisher=McFarland & Co. |isbn= 0-533-13396-3}}
- {{cite book |last= Soares |first= André |title= Beyond Paradise: A Biography of Ramón Novarro |year= 1999|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-60473-457-7}}
External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040429210123/http://silentgents.com/PNovarro1.html Ramón Novarro Photo Gallery]
- [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=616 Photographs of Ramon Novarro]
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