Mario Carillo
Mario Carillo | |
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Born | Mario Caracciolo di Melito 15 May 1883 Miriam Crosby (m. 1915) |
Parent(s) | Filippo Caracciolo di Castagneto, Duke di Melito[1] Emilia Compagna dei Baroni Compagna |
Mario Caracciolo dei Duchi di Melito (1883–1958), known professionally as Mario Carillo and in society events as Count [2] Mario Caracciolo di Melito, was an Italian actor who worked in silent films in Hollywood in the 1920s.[3][4]
Biography
Origins
Mario was born as
Mario served as an officer in the Italian cavalry before moving to the United States.
Hollywood career
Around 1920, he headed out to Hollywood alone to seek work as an actor. He also worked as a physiotherapist at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, where he met Rudolph Valentino.[11][12] He also had a fling with a young actress named Lucille LeSueur (better by the stage name she took on later, Joan Crawford).[11] Over the course of the decade, he appeared in several dozen films before returning to Italy with the aim of starting his own production company[13] (it does not appear that he was successful in this endeavor).
Later life
Mario died in Rome, Italy, on 3 December 1958; he was survived by his wife.[10]
There appears to be a case of mistaken identity at the heart of stories in the press that he was the Mario Caracciolo who was given supreme command of the Italian army's technical service by Mussolini during World War II.[13] This man's full name appears to have been named Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto; the two were around the same age.
Partial filmography
- A Stage Romance (1922)
- The Snitching Hour (1922)
- Slim Shoulders (1922)
- Queen of the Moulin Rouge (1922)
- The Prisoner (1923)
- The Remittance Woman (1923)
- Rosita (1923)
- The Song of Love (1923)
- Stepping Lively (1924)
- His Hour (1924)
- Eve's Secret (1925)
- Déclassé (1925)
- Lost: A Wife (1925)
- Her Sister from Paris (1925)
- The Eagle (1925)
- The Only Thing (1925)
- The Lure of the Wild (1925)
- Dance Madness (1926)
- The Girl from Montmartre (1926)
- Torrent (1926)
- The Barrier (1926)
- Don Juan's 3 Nights (1926)
- Diplomacy (1926)
- Perch of the Devil (1927)
- Evening Clothes (1927)
- Venus of Venice (1927)
- Bigger and Better Blondes (1927)
- Time to Love (1927)
- Ladies Beware (1927)
- The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
- His Tiger Wife (1928)
- How to Handle Women (1928)
- Hot News (1928)
- Just Married (1928)
References
- ^ a b Caracciolo de Castagneto, Famiglie Nobili delle Province Napolitane. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ a b The younger sons are not entitled to inherit the hereditary title of their father in the Nobility of Italy. They all usually bear from birth the junior titles of Nobile or Don.
- ^ Thorold, W. J.; Hornblow, Arthur; Maxwell, Perriton; Beach, Stewart (1922). Theatre Magazine. Theatre Magazine Company.
- ISBN 978-0-520-03068-8.
- ^ Mendola, Louis (2015). "Italian Titles of Nobility". Regalis.com. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ISBN 9780823279388.
- ^ S. George Ullman (1926). Valentino: As I Knew Him. Media History Digital Library (3rd ed.). New York, Macy-Masius.
- ^ The Spur. Angus Company. 1922.
- ^ "Becomes Bride of Titled Italian". The Washington Post. 5 July 1915. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Mediterranea – Caracciolo di Castagneto". genmarenostrum.com (in Italian). Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7867-3236-4.
- ISBN 9780520034983. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Duce Gives High Post to Hollywood Ex-Actor". The Los Angeles Times. 12 January 1940. Retrieved 27 November 2019.