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Even so, the movie is likely to garner attention - largely because it delves so deeply into the Hollywood Babylon. Scandal animates every scene, and, according to the standards of the time, over heated melodrama becomes the order of the day. Pop Singer Michelle Phillips, for example, plays Natacha Rambova, Valentino's culturally aspiring second wife, as if she were trying out for a school play that unaccountably contains a nude love scene...
Rock fans remember her as the winsome, barefooted young Mama belting out pop hits with the Mamas and the Papas a decade ago. In London these days, Michelle Phillips, 32, is trying a different tune, playing Natacha Rambova, the haughty wife of the legendary screen lover in Ken Russell's film Valentino. With Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev, 38, cast as Valentino, the relationship is somewhat different from the original. The driven Rambova constantly badgered her "Rodolpho" to make bigger films, then walked out on him in a fit of pique. This time round, it's Nureyev who keeps...
Died. Natacha Rambova, 69, Rudolph Valentino's second wife (1922-26), the strong-willed stepdaughter of Perfumer Richard Hudnut, who completely dominated the Latin Lover throughout their marriage-planning his career, dictating their way of life-until she decided to pursue an acting career of her own, whereupon she divorced the heartbroken Rudy just before his death at 31; of arteriosclerosis; in Pasadena, Calif...
Overestimate. In Cheyenne, Wyo., offered a suspended sentence if she could guess how many days the court had in mind, Fortune-Teller Olga Rambova hesitated, then replied, "I think it's 30 days," was sent to jail for 25 days...
...born 37 years ago, the son of a Naugatuck, Conn, milliner. His first success, a costume designed for his companion at a Paris ball, caught the eye of guest Irving Berlin, got Adrian a job dressing the Second Music Box Revue. Rudolph Valentino's wife, Natacha Rambova, took him from Broadway to Hollywood to make her husband's clothes, and Adrian has been dressing movie folk ever since. At M. G. M. he inhabits an oyster-white office, works furiously chewing gum, deep in an over stuffed chair which is disconcertingly set on a dais to keep...