His weekly salary of $10,000 for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) was 80 times more than the $125 per week he got for The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) just three years previously.
I was always the hero--with no vices--reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie heroes are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. ...
Ramon Samaniegos
Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego
Durango, Mexico
(age 69)
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA