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    The Son of the Sheik is a 1926 American silent adventure drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky. The...
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    The Sheik (often called The Original Sheik to distinguish him from The Iron Sheik, who debuted in 1972). In wrestling, Farhat is credited as one of the...
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    stardom. In the 1926 sequel The Son of the Sheik, Valentino played both the Sheik and his son, while Ayres reprised her role. A third film in the series,...
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  • sheik in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sheik or Sheikh, literally "elder" in Arabic, is the honorific title for the ruler of a tribe. Sheik or The...
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    better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and actor. He was the first, and so far only, Iranian...
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    Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. Valentino was a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the "Latin Lover"...
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  • Kerim, Son of the Sheik (Italian: Il figlio dello sceicco, French: Le retour du fils du cheik, also known just as Son of the Sheik) is a 1962 Italian-French...
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    within the action genre were the more successful at the box office; these included his final two works The Eagle (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926)...
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    Snyder. It was composed in response to the popularity of the Rudolph Valentino feature film The Sheik. "The Sheik of Araby" was a Tin Pan Alley hit, and...
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    Vilma Bánky (category Hungarian emigrants to the United States)
    Germany, Bánky was best known for her roles in the American films The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik with Rudolph Valentino, and for several romantic...
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