Jean Acker

Jean Acker was a silent-film actress known for being the first wife of Rudolph Valentino — a marriage that lasted less than six hours when she locked him out of the hotel room on their wedding night in 1919. Acker was in a long-term lesbian relationship with actress Grace Darmond at the time of the Valentino marriage, which many historians interpret as a marriage of social convenience. She continued acting through the 1930s and her personal life — including her decades-long relationship with Natacha Rambova (before Valentino), various women in Hollywood — has been documented extensively as part of the history of lesbian life in silent-era Hollywood.