Trivia: Ramon Novarro - Actor

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During his career (1917-1968), he appeared in 53 feature films, including 27 silent films, 9 television series and one short film. He directed 3 films and wrote and produced a film.

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His salary for The Prisoner of Zelda (1922) was $125/week, $150/week for Trifling Women (1922), and $10,000/week for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925).

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At the height of his success in the late twenties and early thirties, he was earning more than one hundred thousand dollars per film, and invested some of his income in real estate.

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Cousin of actresses Dolores del Rio and Andrea Palma.

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He was killed by brothers Paul Ferguson (22 years old) and Tom Ferguson (17 years old). After they offered him their sexual services, they tied him up and beat him to find out where he was hiding the money. Finally, they killed him and found $20. They were arrested and imprisoned, and they were released on parole in the mid-1970s, but they were arrested for unrelated crimes and sentenced to long prison terms. Tom Ferguson committed suicide in 2005, and Paul is serving a 60-year prison sentence for rape in the state of Missouri.