page_title: Nita Naldi
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Nita Naldi / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Nita Naldi with a statue of a faun, illustrated by Alberto Vargas and featured in Shadowland, March 1923.
context_page_description: Nita Naldi was an American stage performer and silent film actress. She was often cast in theatrical and screen productions as a vamp, a persona first popularized by actress Theda Bara.
context_section_description: In 1929, seven years after the success of Blood and Sand, Naldi was named as a party in the divorce proceedings between 54-year-old millionaire J. Searle Barclay from his wife of 16 years. Barclay and Naldi had met during her stage career a decade earlier and had lived together with her sister in New York since 1920. The pair married in France in August 1929. Naldi, alone, returned to the United States two years later and then filed for bankruptcy in 1934. Naldi did not speak publicly about Barclay until after his death in 1945. He died penniless.
  Despite Hollywood gossip and published rumors, Naldi denied ever being romantically involved with either Valentino or Barrymore. In 1956 she was also rumored to be engaged to a Park Avenue man named Larry Hall, but no union took place. Naldi had no children.
caption: "Nita Naldi with a statue of a faun", by Alberto Vargas, 1923.
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