Natacha Rambova & Rudolph Valentino

Just making small aesthetic gifts to myself since my birthday is getting closer… With the hope that you, my friends, find them pleasant to see as well)

In this post - yet another vintage photographic gallery, this time dedicated to Rudolph Valentino and his Russian wife Natacha Rambova, one of the most stunning couples of the roaring 20s.

By the way, the one above is #1 on my top list, even if I still can’t find this pic in good quality.

To make the long story short, the couple met in 1921 on set of the "Uncharted Seas" and fell in love immediately.

They moved in within one year and got married in Mexico right after Valentino’s rushed divorce with his first wife was officially finalized.

It was a passionate love of two celebrities adored by their fans but it had quite an ordinary ending - the couple divorced in 1925 because Natacha was against Rudolph's desire of making her live the life of a "normal” house wife, not accepting any compromises.
She didn’t want to become a beautiful shadow of her brilliant "Latin Lover" husband and chose freedom.

In the image below the couple is seeing each other for the last time, Natacha has already filed for divorce and they are going through an extremely painful separation. Yet, they are obviously trying to maintaining the facade of the most ideal couple of their time while being photographed at the station.

Just another reminder of how far any glamorous picture we see can stand from reality…