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.

Rambova negotiated a two picture deal with Famous Players and four pictures for Ritz Carlton.

While Rambova worked designing costumes and rewriting the script for Falcon, Valentino was persuaded to film Cobra with Nita Naldi.

He was looking for a leading lady for Cobra, the first independent project he and his wife Natacha Rambova were producing.

Rambova was rebellious, and mocked her stepfather for being passive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As the bigamy scandal raged on, Rambova began work on costumes for Valentino's next picture, The Young Rajah.

Once the tour wrapped up, Valentino and Rambova legally married and the press praised Rambova for her " business sense ".

Rambova would be seen as his artistic collaborator for the first time.

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

The costumes were again lavish and Rambova brought on two designers who would go on to successful careers: Norman Norell, and Adrian ( who would design for The Wizard of Oz ).

During production for The Hooded Falcon, Rambova clashed frequently with Valentino's friends.

Rambova and George Ullman were in a battle for control of Valentino's career.

Rambova, alongside Valentino and Henabery, decided Mathis ' script for The Hooded Falcon would not do and that a script doctor should be used.

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.

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

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

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?

Although Joseph Henabery was the official director, Rambova took over this role unofficially.

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 began work on What Price Beauty?

`` He recommended both of them for the DSM and the Detroit fellow for the Purple Heart, too, for a combat-inflicted wound.

The Institute of Public Administration, in its report to the State Fiscal Study Commission in 1959, recommended `` consolidating and centralizing all aspects of property tax administration in a single state agency professionally organized and equipped for the job ''.

The basement of such an apartment building may provide as much natural protection as the specially constructed concrete block shelter recommended for the basement of a family dwelling.

In the budget message for 1959, and again for 1960, I recommended immediate repeal of section 601 of the Act of September 28, 1951 ( 65 Stat. 365 ).

New obligational authority for 1961 recommended in this budget for aircraft procurement ( excluding amounts for related research and construction ) totals $4,753 million, which is $1,390 million below that enacted for 1960.

To avoid passing over quiet, unaggressive teachers as well as to decide whether others merit promotion, review of the right of faculty members to promotion or salary increases should be made periodically whether or not they have been recommended for advancement by their departments.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

See the table on page 34 for exact recommended speeds.

-- The recommended level for sheep is 2 milligrams daily, and this level should be maintained.

Continuous administration is not recommended for lactating cows.

The American Institute of Interior Designers has published a recommended course for designers and a percentage layout of such a course.

Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.

This Commission recommended against the use of federal government funds for the assistance of private universities and against a broad program of government-supported scholarships.

Another swore by vinegar baths for burns, and still another recommended salted butter.

The President recommended federal `` matching grants '' totaling 700 million dollars in 10 years for constructing new medical and dental schools or enlarging the capacity of existing ones.

Supt. Clarence S. Taylor had recommended Roger I. Vermeersch for the post.

They recommended, also, that `` at a fixed hour, let the entire family be assembled for night prayers, followed by a short reading of the Holy Scriptures ''.

Some of Thurber's curative methods involve strong potions of mixed metaphor, malapropism, and gobbledygook and are recommended for use only in extreme cases.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.