Natacha Rambova

Natacha Rambova was an American dancer, costume designer, art director and Egyptologist. Rising to prominence in the early 1920s, she became one of Hollywood's first women to exert significant creative control behind the camera, particularly through her collaborations with silent film actor Rudolph Valentino, whom she married in 1923. A trained dancer, Rambova studied under Russian ballet choreographer Theodore Kosloff in New York and performed with his Imperial Russian Ballet.