Description:In 1922 Rudolph Valentino starred in the movie "Blood and Sand", a movie that shortly before his death in 1926 he declared as the part he liked the best. He had just undergone a touchy surgery for appendicitis and gastric ulcers and told the gathering press "The part I like best was my role in 'Blood and Sand'. If I had died, I would have liked to be remembered as an actor by that role -- I think it my greatest." He died a few days later from peritonitis.(4:57)