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Rambova returned and began touring with the Kosloff company.
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Rambova and returned
Missing Rambova, Valentino returned to New York after the release of The Young Rajah.
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.
After divorcing her second husband, Rambova remained in France, where she remained until the Nazi invasion, at which point she returned to New York.
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.
Rambova and began
Rambova, Mathis, Ivano, and Valentino began work on the Alla Nazimova film Camille.
During his forced break from Rambova, the pair began working ( separately ) on the Mathis-penned The Young Rajah.
With the marriage under strain, Valentino began shooting and Rambova announced that she needed a " marital vacation ".
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.
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.
As the bigamy scandal raged on, Rambova began work on costumes for Valentino's next picture, The Young Rajah.
By this point in Valentino's career the press began to blame Rambova for his missteps, claiming she was controlling and power hungry.
Rambova began work on What Price Beauty?
After her divorce from Valentino began, Rambova produced and starred in another picture, Do Clothes Make the Woman ?.
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.
The marriage began to be strained as the press scrutinized Rambova and blamed her for Valentino's failures.
Rambova left four weeks after Valentino began shooting The Eagle and announced the separation soon after, catching Valentino off guard.
Rambova and with
Valentino felt he had underperformed in the film, being upset over his separation with Rambova.
After speaking with Rambova and his lawyer Arthur Butler Graham, Valentino declared a ' One man Strike ' against Famous Players.
The tour was a tremendous success with Valentino and Rambova performing in 88 cities in the United States and Canada.
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.
George Ullman, who had negotiated the contract with United Artists, offered Rambova $ 30, 000 to finance a film of her own.
Having to wait the year or face the possibility of being arrested again, Rambova and Valentino lived in separate apartments in New York City, each with their own roommates.
The end of the marriage was bitter, with Valentino bequeathing Rambova one dollar in his will.
At least four books, including Hollywood Babylon, suggested that he may have been gay despite his marriage with Rambova.
In fact, the marriages to Acker and Rambova, as well as the relationship with Pola Negri, only serve to add to the suspicion that Valentino was gay and that these were " lavender marriages ", as all have documented lesbian relationships.
Rambova was gifted at ballet, and trained with Rosita Mauri at the Paris Opéra during the summers.
Aunt Teresa intervened, offering to move with Rambova to New York where she could study under Kosloff.
She allowed Rambova to keep performing with the company and promised to underwrite the costumes.
The pictures were damaging to Valentino's image, and also were seen as evidence that he was carrying on with Rambova during his divorce from Acker.
Rambova stated she was not worried, and could keep them afloat with her designs.
At first Rambova worked well with him, but the two eventually clashed.
By 1924 Rambova had negotiated a contracted with J. D.
They were given a huge budget, with Rambova spending $ 215, 000 on costumes alone.
During production for The Hooded Falcon, Rambova clashed frequently with Valentino's friends.
With the knowledge United Artists would likely be signing Valentino, Rambova went to speak with Ullman about the contract terms.
Rambova was reportedly so upset that the distributor promoted the film with her name as " Mrs. Valentino " that she never acted in film again.
Through these practices Valentino was eventually moved to write a book of poetry, Daydreams, with many poems about Rambova.
Rambova and Kosloff
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.
Kosloff sent Rambova to show sketches to Nazimova, claiming they were his own when they were actually Rambova's.
Kosloff had several lovers, and took credit for all their designs and work he would ask them to do, including Rambova.
When Rambova was offered a position by Nazimova she was finally able to leave Kosloff.
However Kosloff was controlling and abusive, and Rambova had to proceed in secret as Kosloff would do anything to keep her in his ' harem '.
While Kosloff was away on a hunting trip, Rambova packed her bags and called a taxi.
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