Netflix Movies Starring Antonio Moreno

A serious rival to Rudolph Valentino as the smouldering 'Latin Lover' type was black-haired Spanish-born Antonio Moreno. One of the most prominent screen stars of the 1920's, he was equally adept at romance, melodrama or comedy and appeared opposite most of the legendary movie queens of the era, from the Gish sisters to Greta Garbo, to Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford. He began working life as an employee of the Northhampton Electric Light and Gas Company. He first acted on stage under the tutelage of Maude Adams, whose theatre he had initially visited in order to fix the lighting. Moreno's heyday came years later, under contract to Paramount from 1923 to 1924, and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1926. He had previously made his movie debut at Rex-Universal and then featured as a top drawing card for Vitagraph until 1921. Read more on iMDB