Natacha Rambova
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Natacha Rambova was an American dancer, costume designer, art director, and Egyptologist. Rising to prominence in the early 1920s, she became one of Hollywood's first women to exert significant creati
Rambova in the Chicago Tribune on September 13, 1916
Rambova and Theodore Kosloff in costumes designed by Rambova for their Aztec dance number on the Keith-Orpheum circuit, 1917
Costume concept for Forbidden Fruit (1921), designed and drawn by Rambova
Rudolph Valentino in a costume designed by Rambova for The Young Rajah (1922)
Rudolph Valentino
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Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or just as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer. Dubbed the Latin Lover, he
Natacha Rambova
…one of Hollywood's first women to exert significant creative control behind the camera, particularly through her collaborations with silent film actor Rudolph Valentino, whom she married in 1923. Trained in ballet and the visual arts, Rambova began her career dancing with Russian ballet choreographer Theodore Kosloff…
Valentino as a child, published in Photoplay, January 1923
Valentino in Taranto before he departed for America, 1913
Line 12 of the manifest shows that on December 9, 1913, 18-year-old Valentino departed Genoa aboard the S.S. Cleveland.
Valentino in a portrait inscribed to socialite Aimée Crocker Gouraud, 1916