Thank you for watching! If you want to support my channel you can do so at buymeacoffee.com/indiascarlett Is there any topic you would like to see a video about? If you want to find out more about Natacha and Rudy, I'd recommend reading 'Madame Valentino' by Michael Morris and 'Dark Lover' by Emily W. Leider, both are available for free on archive.org.

This is an absolutely magnificent biography of one of the most important early silent movie set/costume designers in Natahca Rambova. I have long been a Valentino fan, but never really knew much about Natacha. You put a lot of work into this video and it's much appreciated. Thank you so very much for uploading this video and for your research. Bravo to you💌💌💌

What a fascinating life and woman! Thank you for this lovely and deeply researched video. Rambova has been slightingly portrayed most of the time, especially in relation to Valentino; great to know what a complex, accomplished, and well-rounded person she was. And her designs are beautiful.

India, you are one of the best. Not only do you have a wonderful narrative voice, but you also take great care when presenting your videos to be factual and thorough. I've been a great admirer of Natacha's since I was a small child, and more recently having read the excellent book "Madame Valentino" which restores the dignity of her real love with Rudy, and her very real talents. Definitely a Renaissance Woman for all our times.

Really enjoyed this anazing biography. Well produced. A criticism, vary the pace of the narration, and use the pause.

Natacha Rambova is my spirit animal. Thanks for sharing her story!

Wow! I've only read and heard negative things about her. Thank you for presenting this thorough examination of her and her brilliant mind.

This was a fascinating and well-researched story! Thank you.

This was fascinating. I always wanted to know more about Natacha. Rudy was a beauty but she was truly, expansively creative and interesting.

Thank you for your informative, well produced documentary. I hope that in your future videos you will slow your narration; as it stands here, the solidly factual post seems hurriedly read. Regardless of my criticism, thank you very much for your efforts.

She was her own woman,kathern hepburn felt the same way about children. Well done she was very pretty,enjoyed this very much thank you

Thank you for these excellent documentaries! Could you please make one about ballerina Mathilde Kchessinska? She had an extraordinary life too

Myrna Loy was in the Kosloff dance company/taking lessons when Kosloff worked in Hollywood. Ms Loy was fascinated with Rambova, she thought her the most beautiful woman she'd ever seen, long thick golden brown hair worn in braids wrapped around her head & unusual golden eyes. (Nazimova was Nancy Reagans godmother!) A wonderful book if you can find it Is Madam Valentino

Natacha's mother's fourth marriage was to my friend's grandfather Richard Hudnutt. Hudnutt manufactured cosmetics and perfume. In 1969 he was tge oldest living graduate of Princeton. My friend was Stephen Hudnutt Lutz.

Love her! I'm 18 years old and Inspired by her clothing designs

This woman is very intelligent apparently. She was artistic and intelligent and beautiful. That sounds like a winning combination, but I’m impressed with her intelligence that’s very nice to know.

SPECTACULAR video, research, presentation & narration style. Congratulations!!!

Thank you so much for telling us about this fascinating woman. I knew of Valentino and his early death, but nothing else of his life. Fascinating and so well done!Again, thank you so much!

Extraordinary woman. Exceptionally well done video. Kudos.

I've spent time in Las Encinas. It was like a resort at one time. Beautiful gardens to walk-around

Just amazing! Thank you.

Thankyou for this sensational biogaphy!! I've heard of Natasha, but knew little about her except, she was with Valentino. She was so multi-talented and very intelligent. She sure didn't let grass grow under her feet. She was so adventurous, more than any Actress/dancer, I've heard of. I love the fact that she had compassion for animals, and hated if they were mistreated. My uncle saw a man beating his dog, and he got out of his car and beat him with the chain, he used on the poor dog, and took the dog away from him, many years ago. She was always working on educational projects in her later years, till her death. She's one of the most facinating, people I have learned about. I love to watch old movies. RIP Natasha. 🙏🩰🌹🌹💐💐

Interesting woman, that I never heard about

Absolutely fascinating content and very well put together I’m impressed

India your reporting and narration is charming. Will you do a profile on actress Linda Christian. She was discovered by Errol Flynn and married to Tyrone Power.

This isn't the kind of video KZfaq typically suggests for me but I watched it because I have viewed the art collections of Natacha and her mother but very little, and your video would suggest, inaccurate information was given about them. Thank you, I cannot remember when I last enjoyed a video on KZfaq so much.

What a fascinating,well researched and enjoyable documentary,she was a very interesting ,talented and amazing person .

I just stumbled upon your channel and immediately subscribed! I'm going on a binge of watching your videos...keep up the good work.

Wow. Great documentary piece. So well researched and presented. 👏👏👏

Yip skip!! Was so excited to see a new video! Well done. Thank you! 🦖I gots the FOMO! Psh only being married once and punched a man in the nose even less times than that. I wonder if it’s as fun as it seems. 💚Thank you!🎉🎉

She was a fascinating and clever woman. An interesting insight into her life and later her life with Rudy. I think she was painted in a bad light by those in Hollywood. She wanted the best for Rudy and fought for him and tried to protect him from the greedy profiteers in the film industry. Just as any wife worth her salt would do. I think she loved him very much. It is so sad that their marriage ended the way it did. Had things been different I think he would possibly have gone on to direct films and she would have been at his side supporting him. Thank you I really enjoyed this.

#nammyohorengekyo..a prayer for her..

she's so beautiful and classy it hurts!

She was driven by a nervous energy. She couldn't stop and it's probably just as well she did not have children. It's sad though. Who knows what kind of mother she would have been. She might have thrown herself into motherhood with the same vigor that she devoted to her careers and succeeded greatly.

Your videos are wonderful!

Lights sown onto the dress?? How?

Well done.

Fascinating.❤

You NEVER mentioned "The Son of Sheik" !

A remarkable woman who should be better known

This was beautifully done. I’m on the other side of the camp on Natasha. As a Spanish POC and avid Rudy fan, I was never really satisfied with the impressions I’ve always been given about her from a variety of writings. I was wrong. Though many consider her fascinating, I see her as pretty much the basic person of high privilege that at least does something for the sake of the arts, as long as it benefitted her. That’s the ultimate show of privilege. She made a lot of horribly racist comments to publications and was quite deceptive about not actually wanting children in both marriages, which is fine as I too have made that choice in my own life, but she wasn’t upfront about that due to her own need to benefit off of others. There were many examples of how she didn’t hesitate to piggyback off of Rudy’s endeavors for her own advancement and causing great strife if she wasn’t included professionally. That’s the very definition of opportunistic. This is just my two cents from a POC that knows good and well that someone that uses disparaging language about people of color, even when married to a person of color, is still racist. That era was definitely that era, but keeping people of color “in there place” was still very much a conscious practice. This was fascinating and very well done! For me, she simply wasn’t. She was pretty petty and basic as all people with privilege are that have deep seeded issues with self-confidence that only have their eye on the prize. I was hoping she was more of a feminist, not just another selfish opportunist masquerading as strong and spiritual.

Ssssoooo much information!! 🤯 What are your sources??

Valentino's manager said Natacha was the only woman who was immune from Valentinos' charm." Strange marriage a bit like Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson.

❤ She lived a very full life. ❤

Interesting woman, though I don't know what she saw in Valentino!😣

That baby picture is so cute!

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Natasha Rambova nearly ruined Rudolph Valentino's career because she wanted to run it. It seemed that she wanted things her way, and she had extremely high, but unrealistic expectations. I don't know what to make of her. Misunderstood or manipulative? I could say the same for Valentino--high expectations. Rambova seemed quite talented, with many interests that went against the grain for the average woman of her time. No, she would never have been the devoted wife that Valentino yearned for, or the mother of his children that he probably desired. He was too starry eyed to see the truth, and she thought that she could mold him into her creation. Both had something in mind for each other that could not succeed. Both liked the pampered, picture-perfect lifestyle. Both seemed quite full of themselves. Valentino was vain due to his looks and was spoiled by his mother. Rambova was overlooked by her mother and still carried the wound. She loved art, attempting to design herself into a work of art. She wanted Valentino to be her art project, too. Her spiritual beliefs of ancient cultures, reincarnation, and her love of conducting seances were odd and offbeat. She definitely rejected the societal norms that she came from.

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Natasha was hurt by the bastard cad who had seduced her, and she changed.

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I was born in wrong era love all the clothes and decadent places..if only

The furniture was painted to resemble Chinese lacquer...not liqueur......😮

She clearly wasn't short marbles.

Way too fast. Please slow down when speaking!!!

This is rather sick... But still.

While the story was wonderful the narrator's lack of correct pronunciation made listening to it difficult. You can say it was due to the accent, but I listen to other narrators with such accents that do not mispronounce simple words and names. Consider a real human rather than AI in the future.

An animal lover who called her dog Bimbo???

Sal-OHH-MEE?! Yikes please recheck

People demonize her like crazy. She gets called every name in the book because people acted like she was some sort of She Wolf who dominated valentino. She encouraged and helped his aesthetic. She was definitely a force for him yes she goes down forgotten or some sort of females Svengali she definitely was a little callous in her relationship with him but she deserves her do credit