Jean Acker

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    Name Jean Acker
    (Harriet Acker)
    Build Slim
    Date of Birth October 231893
    Birthplace Trenton, New Jersey
    Star Sign Scorpio
    Died August 161978 (Aged 85)
    Location of Death Los Angeles, California
    Nationality American
    Ethnicity White
    Occupation Actress
    Celebrity Index Je
    Claim to Fame First Wife of Rudolph Valentino

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  • On her second encounter with Valentino at a party: "The first question he asked was, `Do you care to dance?` I decided to sit it out with him under a California moon."
  • She gave this reason as to why Valentino married her: "I honestly believe that Rudolph would have married then any woman with an automobile."
  • When asked why she married Valentino, she replied, "It was simply a case of California, the glamour of the Southern moonlight and the fascinating love-making of the man."
  • In 1913, a twenty-year old Jean told an interviewer: "I`d rather jump from a moving train or ride a motorcycle fifty miles an hour or take a ride in an aeroplane than eat."
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  • She was at one time the lover of Alla Nazimova and Grace Darmond.
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  • She was said to be engaged to a marquis from Madrid, Spain in 1923.
  • She was an expert horsewoman who once portrayed a jockey on-screen.
  • Many years after Rudolph Valentino`s death, Jean confided to her friend, actress Patricia Neal, that the reason she left Valentino on their wedding night was because he had confessed to her that he had gonorrhea.
  • She visited Rudolph Valentino on his death bed and brought him a ruffled white linen bedspread that she had embroidered herself, and a pillow cover with "Rudy" embroidered in each corner.
  • In 1923, she toured in vaudeville with a sketch called "How She Won the Sheik," exploiting her connection to Rudolph Valentino even though they were divorced.
  • She enjoyed collecting fashion templates.
  • She was part Cherokee.
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