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The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou. It was based on the bestselling 1919 romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull and was adapted for the screen by Monte M. Katterjohn .
The Sheik is a 1919 novel by English writer E. M. Hull. It was the first of a series of novels she wrote with desert settings that set off a major revival of the "desert romance" genre of romantic fiction . [ 1 ]
Edward George Farhat (June 7, 1926 – January 18, 2003) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Sheik.In wrestling, Farhat, whose career debuted in 1947, is credited as one of the originators of the hardcore style, is also retroactively called The Original Sheik, mostly to distinguish him from the similarly-named The Iron Sheik who debuted in 1972.
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.
Sheikh (/ ʃ eɪ k, ʃ iː k / SHAYK, SHEEK, [1] Arabic: شَيْخ, romanized: shaykh, commonly, plural: شُيُوخ, shuyūkh) [a] is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder".
Edith Maud Hull (16 August 1880 – 11 February 1947) was a British writer of romance novels, typically credited as E. M. Hull. [1] [2] She is best known for The Sheik, which became an international best seller in 1921.
The Sheik, a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, based on the novel; The Son of the Sheik, a 1926 sequel to the earlier film also starring Rudolph Valentino; She's a Sheik, a 1927 film starring Bebe Daniels, based on the novel with a gender-reversed plot "Sheik", a 1973 song on ZZ Top's album Tres Hombres
The Iron Sheik made his film debut in The Tale of the 3 Mohammads in 2005. He then appeared alongside Daniel Baldwin and Corey Feldman in Operation Belvis Bash in 2011. Sheik also made an appearance on the Canadian show Kenny vs. Spenny on the "Who is a better pro wrestler?" episode where he attempted to sodomize a naked Spenny with a beer bottle.