Natacha Rambova~The Wife of Rudolph Valentino~

Valentino's association with Rambova was to prove both his greatest pleasure and his greatest pain. Born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy she was a 1920's costume and set designer, artistic director, screenwriter, producer, actress, fashion designer and Egyptologist.~On her separation from Valentino~" He knew what I was when I married him. I have been working since I was seventeen. Homes and babies are all very nice, but you can't have them and a career as well. I intended, and intend, to have a career and Valentino knew it. If he wants a housewife, he'll have to look again." In the mid 1960s she was struck with scleroderma, and became malnourished and delusional as a result. She died in Pasadena of a heart attack on June 5, 1966 at the age of 69. Her ashes were scattered in Arizona.