"He (Henri de la Falaise, Gloria's third husband) asked me about Rudy (Valentino) because for three days the papers had been full of reports of Valentino's collapse as the result of a ruptured appendix and a perforated ulcer. I told him the papers said he was much better. Then, on August 23, Rudy died. His death enraged me and his funeral sickened me. A month before his death his physician in Hollywood had examined him and said he was in perfect shape, and up to the very end his doctors in New York were broadcasting encouraging reports about his recovery while they kept him sedated and flat on his back."...