15 Jul 1991
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Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
Behind Natacha Rambova's Shadow
The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, who reincarnated herself countless times: false Russian dancer, silent film actress, scenographer and costume designer, writer, spiritist, Egyptologist, indefatigable traveler, mysterious and curious; an amazing 20th century woman who created the myth of Rudolph Valentino.
Top Billed Cast
Noemí Garcíes Herself - Narrator (voice)
Jane Prichthard Herself - Dance Historian
Drake Stutesman Herself - Writer and Film Historian
Pere de Montaner Himself - Historian
José Carlos Llop Himself - Writer
Josep Massot i Muntaner Himself - Historian
David Jorge Himself - Researcher
John Darnell Himself - Egyptologist
Colleen Darnell Herself - Egyptologist
Theodore Kosloff Various Roles (archive footage)
Alla Nazimova Various Roles (archive footage)
Rudolph Valentino Himself / Various Roles (archive footage)
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