90 films. Personal life Once he became wealthy enough, never having forgotten his origins, in 1922 he returned to Italy, finding his mother and staying for about a month. Despite his physical appearance and background as a wrestler, Bull Montana was always considered a gentleman for the kind and polite ways that distinguished him in his life. In 1924, he met the dancer Jackie LaVerne, originally from Georgia, with whom he lived until 1928 when Montagna denounced her and had her arrested for hitting him on the head with a slipper. The woman was sentenced to 60 days in prison but she only served two as Montagna himself paid her $ 00 bail and asked the judge to overturn the guilty verdict and the prison sentence. The judge commuted the 2-year probation sentence and Montana permanently split from LaVerne. In 1929 he met Mary Mathews Poulson, a young widow of 23, with whom he was married on September 21 of the same year; the marriage ended in a divorce on August 21, 1931. Bull Montana died on January 24, 1950, in Los Angeles at the age of 62. His body was buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography In Again, Out Again (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) (uncredited) Down to Earth (1917) The Border Legion (1918) He Comes Up Smiling (1918) Fair Enough (1918) His Majesty, the American (1919) The Unpardonable Sin (1919) Victory (1919) When the Clouds Roll by (1919) In for Thirty Days (1919) One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day (1919) Easy to Make Money (1919) Brass Buttons (1919) Daredevil Jack (1920) Treasure Island (1920) The Girl in Number 29 (1920) The Mollycoddle (1920) Hearts Are Trumps (1920) Go and Get It (1920) What Women Love (1920) Hard Luck (1921) One Wild Week (1921) The Foolish Age (1921) Crazy to Marry (1921) The Timber Queen (1922) Gay and Devilish (1922) Held to Answer (1923) Breaking Into Society (1923) Hollywood (1923) cameo Secrets of the Night (1924) Laughing at Danger (1924) Dick Turpin (1925) The Lost World (1925) Manhattan Madness (1925) Bashful Buccaneer (1925) Stop, Look and Listen (1926) The Skyrocket (1926) On the Front Page (1926) How to Handle Women (1928) Good Morning, Judge (1928) The Show of Shows (1929) Glorifying the American Girl (1929) Palooka from Paducah (1935) References External links Bull Montana at Virtual History 1887 births 1950 deaths American male film actors American male silent