#Natacha Rambova

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Natacha Rambova (1920s)

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Salomé (1922)  

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Director: Charles Bryant & Nazimova

Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger

Performer: Nazimova

Art Director & Costume Designer: Natacha Rambova (inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's Salomé illustrations)

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Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova leaving Paris for a continental tour in 1923. (Caption)

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from Motion Picture Magazine, September 1923

Portrait of Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova by Hal Phyfe

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Lady of The Day 🌹 Natacha Rambova ❤️

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Natalia Nazimova in “Salome” - 1923

Costumes by Natacha Rambova

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Natacha Rambova wearing a dress by Fortuny. Photographed by James Abbe

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Salomé / Alla Nazimova as Salomé

Natacha Rambova designed the costumes for this adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. The look is inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for the printed version of the play, although the costumes are not copied directly from the illustrations.

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Michelle Phillips, Leslie Caron, and Rudolph Nureyev in VALENTINO (1977), directed by Ken Russell. Our next episode is all about this sublime and unfairly overlooked biopic— look for it at our Patreon!

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Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova.

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Salomé (1922)  

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Director: Charles Bryant & Nazimova

Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger

Performer: Nazimova

Art Director & Costume Designer: Natacha Rambova (inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's Salomé illustrations)

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Natacha Rambova (January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966)

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from Motion Picture Magazine, February 1924

original caption:

No—Guess Again! Recently there was a mammoth Actors' Fund Benefit held in Los Angeles in which all the movie stars appeared. And the Argentine tango in which Shirley Mason and Viola Dana impersonated Natacha and Rodolph Valentino is even now the talk of Hollywood

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Hollywood gossip was circulating that the Valentino marriage was in deep trouble, that Natacha was taking drugs to numb the pangs of despair, that she was absenting herself from the Whitley Heights haven, and had taken a lover. To scotch the rumors, Natacha joined Rudy in hosting a reception at the Ambassador Hotel for the Spanish painter Federico Beltran-Masses, who had just completed four paintings for them. [...] The forth painting was a sensual portrait called La Gitana, a portrait of a Spanish gypsy reclining seminude likewise in the attitude of Goya's naked muja. Except for the woman's green eyes, La Gitana has the unmistakable features of Natacha. The well-bred Rambova, who was never seen in Hollywood with her hair unbound, brandishing a cigarette, or wearing a short skirt insisted that Beltran-Masses's naked maja be given a name other than her own. It was Rudy's favorite painting, however, one that he would later place above his bed at Falcon Lair.

[...] In Hollywood, Rudy did not want to live alone with his memories at Whitley Heights. He moved into Falcon Lair, even though renovation had not yet been completed. Beltran-Masses kept him company there and gave him painting lessons. The work the actor chose to reproduce in these lessons was La Gitana. Obsessed with the picture, he painted it over and over again. - Madam Valentino, Michael Morris

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1922 Alla Nazimova as Salome. Directed by Charles Bryant. Film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play Salomé, Costume Design by Natacha Rambova.

Production designer Natacha Rambova based much of Salome’s decor and costumes on the decadent illustrations Aubrey Beardsley produced for the first edition of Oscar Wilde’s play Salome.