The marriage began to be strained as the press scrutinized Rambova and blamed her for Valentino's failures.

After finishing the film, Valentino married Rambova, which led to a bigamy trial.

Rambova took to researching historical accuracy for her designs, which Kosloff would then use without giving her credit, stealing her sketches and claiming them as his own.

After divorcing her second husband, Rambova remained in France, where she remained until the Nazi invasion, at which point she returned to New York.

Though her mother protested, Rambova was eventually allowed to continue the relationship which became tumultuous.

After signing with United Artists ( which stipulated Rambova could not be present on Valentino's sets or take part in his films ), Rambova turned cold and ignored her husband's 30th birthday, mocking him for staying home all day while she went to work ( he was waiting for his contract to finalize ), sparring with him in public, embarrassing him in front of Hollywood elite on the night of his ' Rudolph Valentino Medal ' ceremony, and eventually cheating on him with her cameraman on What Price Beauty?

She appeared in a 1964 episode of Dr. Kildare (" Tyger Tyger ") and later appeared in numerous television series and made-for-television movies, one of which is The Legend of Valentino ( 1975 ), wherein she played Rudolph Valentino's second wife, Natacha Rambova.

With the marriage under strain, Valentino began shooting and Rambova announced that she needed a " marital vacation ".

Right before World War I broke out, Rambova returned to San Francisco where she clashed with her mother once again and insisted she would pursue ballet as a career.

Aunt Teresa intervened, offering to move with Rambova to New York where she could study under Kosloff.

Nazimova was impressed and when she asked for revisions to some costumes, Rambova took out a pencil and began to make the revisions, showing that she had done the work.

Rambova stated she was not worried, and could keep them afloat with her designs.

By this point in Valentino's career the press began to blame Rambova for his missteps, claiming she was controlling and power hungry.

Rambova was reportedly so upset that the distributor promoted the film with her name as " Mrs. Valentino " that she never acted in film again.

With her husband in Mallorca, Rambova began a business of buying up old villas and modernizing them for tourists ; a venture she financed with her inheritance from her stepfather who had died in 1928.

When Rambova began work in film costume design she took to researching historical accuracy for her designs.

Rambova loathed the world of high society, and even though her mother had married well she refused to live off her stepfather's money, insisting on making her own living.

When Valentino died Rambova wrote a book about the time she had spent with him, and also her claims to be in contact with him in the afterlife via psychics.

When Rambova was offered a position by Nazimova she was finally able to leave Kosloff.

Valentino was known as an excellent cook, while actress Patsy Ruth Miller suspected Rambova didn't know " how to make burnt fudge ," although the truth was she did occasionally bake and was an excellent seamstress.

Rambova complained during their trip to Italy, and she never got along with either of his siblings.

Rambova fled to Nice, where she suffered a heart attack at age 40.

In 1977, she played Rudolph Valentino's second wife Natacha Rambova in Ken Russell's film Valentino.

Naldi and Valentino were never romantic, and she would be one of the few to befriend his wife Natacha Rambova though that friendship would sour when the Valentinos divorced.

Rambova claimed that Famous Players made them choose the film.

Actress Myrna Loy claimed that Rambova was unfairly criticized, that Valentino was like a little boy wanting to please people by saying yes to everything, while Rambova took the blame by going after these people and saying no.

Valentino felt he had underperformed in the film, being upset over his separation with Rambova.

George Ullman, who had negotiated the contract with United Artists, offered Rambova $ 30, 000 to finance a film of her own.

Around this time Rambova fell for the 32 year old Kosloff ( who had a wife and an invalid daughter in Europe ) and the pair began a tumultuous love affair.

By 1922 Rambova had left Metro to join Nazimova on her artistic productions.

Before their marriage a public controversy over pictures Rambova had taken of Valentino, dressed up as a faun or pan-like God.

The pictures had been taken by Rambova as part of a series of faun pictures for a magazine called Shadowland, that featured art and dancer photos.

By 1924 Rambova had negotiated a contracted with J. D.

Valentino was said to be shocked when he first viewed her parents ' lavish home, as Rambova had never spoken of their wealth.

Kosloff had several lovers, and took credit for all their designs and work he would ask them to do, including Rambova.

However Kosloff was controlling and abusive, and Rambova had to proceed in secret as Kosloff would do anything to keep her in his ' harem '.

Rambova had been sent to New York by the studio before Valentino's jailing, and was informed at a stop in Chicago.

Valentino cherished old world ideals of a woman being a housewife and mother, while Rambova was a feminist who wanted to continue to work and had no plans of being a housewife.

Rambova believed a reconciliation had taken place and the two sent telegrams right until the final moments of Valentino's life.

Kosloff sent Rambova to show sketches to Nazimova, claiming they were his own when they were actually Rambova's.

Though they shared similar passions, Valentino and Rambova held very different views when it came to home and personal life.

After filing for divorce, Valentino did not wait the requisite period for it to be finalized before marrying his second wife, Natacha Rambova, in Mexico, and he was charged with bigamy when the couple returned to the United States.