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Rambova, a great-granddaughter of Latter-day Saint (LDS; see also Mormon) patriarch Heber C. Kimball, was born out of wedlock to Winifred Kimball (at least four different men are reputed to have been her father), as Winifred Kimball. Her mother, an interior decorator, subsequently married Col. Michael Shaughnessy, who adopted her, and she was known as Winifred Shaughnessy (nickname "Sheba") until she adopted the stage name Natacha Rambova. She was not adopted by her mother's third husband, cosmetics millionaire Richard Hudnut , and was thus not, as is sometimes claimed, known as Winifred Hudnut. Her mother was also briefly married to Edgar de Wolfe, a brother of the pioneering American interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, whose business partner she became.
She was educated in the United States and in England, at a school recommended by her step-aunt, Elsie de Wolfe.
After a tumultuous love affair with the dancer Theodore Kosloff , with whose dance company, Kosloff's Imperial Russian Ballet, she performed, she married Rudolph Valentino on March 14, 1923, in Crown Point Lake , Indiana. (Their first marriage, in 1924, was declared bigamous because Valentino's divorce from his first wife, actress Jean Acker, had been granted but was not yet finalized.) He died in 1926.
She married Count Alvaro de Urzaiz , a Spanish aristocrat, in 1934 and went to live on the BalearicBalearic is the Catalan variant spoken in the Illes Balears, Spain. Some features of Balearic variant: Part of Balearic preserves a vocalic system of 8 stressed vowels /a,@,E,e,i,O,o,u/. In particular: Majorca system has 8 stressed vowels /a,@,E,e,i,O,o,u isle of Mallorca.
She worked as an art director for an extended period with Alla NazimovaAlla Nazimova born May 22, 1879 died July 13, 1945, was a Ukranian born stage and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer. Born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon into a Jewish family in Yalta in the Crimea which at the time was a part of Russia but today is (née Adelaide Leventon), which whom she is often asserted, though evidence is lacking, to have had a lesbian relationship.
In 19121912 is a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 Establishment of Republic of China. January 6 New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U. January 17 British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the, Rambova gave the Utah Museum of Art a large collection of Egyptian artifacts, and she would also edit books about Egyptian art for the Bollingen Foundation . Her collection of Nepali and Lamaistic art now belongs to the Philadelphia Museum of ArtThe Philadelphia Museum of Art located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year. Originally the Pennsylvania Museum and School of.
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