Word: rambova
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...