Burning Daylight

He was a rich, handsome leading man and died too soon.

No, it's not Rudolph Valentino, Milton Sills, born 1882 and died 1930.

Starring with the most beautiful stars of the silent era, including Mary Pickford, Colleen Moore and Gloria Swanson, Sills was the son of a welathy industrialist father and heiress mother who changed his university major to acting at the suggestion of playwright Henrik Ibsen.

Starring in a number silent hits, Sills made the transition to talkies just fine, but sadly at the age of 48 and married for just 4 years to starlet Doris Kenyon, he died of a heart attack.