#Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy

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Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy; January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966) was an American film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress who was active in Hollywood in the 1920s. In her later life, she abandoned design to pursue other interests, specifically Egyptology, a subject on which she became a published scholar in the 1950s...also wife of Rudolph Valentino for a while.

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Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy; January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966) was an American film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress who was active in Hollywood in the 1920s. In her later life, she abandoned design to pursue other interests, specifically Egyptology, a subject on which she became a published scholar in the 1950s.

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

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Madame Valentino.

Natacha Rambova (Born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy)

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Rambunctious Rambova: Don't Call Her "Mrs. Valentino"

Rambunctious Rambova: Don’t Call Her “Mrs. Valentino”

Ye Gods! If there was ever a Renaissance woman on this earth it was Natacha Rambova (Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, 1897-1966.) I’d come across the name of course in connection with Valentino and Nazimova, but little dreamed of the scale or depth of her accomplishments, or the strange and interesting life she lived.

To begin with, as we see from her name, she wasn’t actually Russian. She was the…

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Natacha Rambova

Nata Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy il 19 gennaio 1897 a Salt Lake City in Utah, danzatrice, scenografa, costumista, designer, sceneggiatrice e collezionista di antichità statunitense, ricordata soprattutto per essere stata la seconda moglie di Rodolfo Valentino. Natacha Rambova with Theodore Kosloff Come danzatrice ballò con Theodore Kosloff, Clifton Webb e lo stesso Rodolfo Valentino per il quale…