After emigrating from Madrid to New York at fourteen, Moreno finished school in Massachusetts, though Williston Seminary holds no record of his attendance. He started in regional theater, moved to Hollywood in 1912, and debuted with Biograph in Iola's Promise. By 1914 he co-starred in Vitagraph serials with Norma Talmadge, becoming a matinee idol and an early “Latin Lover” figure. In the early 192…
