I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
