Vintage 8 x 10 in. US single-weight gloss copy photograph (not a vintage original photo printed at the time it was taken) from the 1920's silent film drama/romance, COBRA, released in 1925 by Paramount Pictures and directed by Joseph Henabery. Rudolph Valentino stars as a penniless, skirt-chasing Italian nobleman finds love and scandal when he travels to New York City.
The image features an interior shot inside the villa of handsome Count Rodrigo Torriani (Rudolph Valentino, far right) and his friend, Jack Dorning (Casson Ferguson), talking with an older woman as two men watch from the other end of the large table. Printed most likely in the 1950s or 1960s, it is in very fine- condition as shown.
This was the first film from the production company of star Rudolph Valentino and his wife, Natacha Rambova, who had a small part. Reportedly, Rambova began to rewrite the script almost immediately after filming began, and made such a mess of it that the studio called in veteran screenwriter June Mathis to do a complete rewrite. Rambova was initially brought on to design sets and costumes but became "bored" and left to work on another project. The supper-club set that designed reportedly required 150 studio lights. Director Joseph Henabery later admitted that none of the cast members of this film would have been his first choices, had he been given any say in the matter. He also didn't like the script and was very sick throughout the production due to the lack of heating at the studio.