March 2, 2026, Patent of the Day

On March 2, 1926, U.S. Patent No. No. 1,575,263 issued to Winifred Guglielmi aka Natasha Rambova (born Winifred Shaughnessy in Salt Lake City):

Natasha was a dancer, costume designer, actress, and the second wife of silent screen movie actor RUDOLPH VALENTINO (born Rodolfo Guglielmi).

Valentino first met Rambova while filming Uncharted Seas in 1921. They become friends, and eventually a romantic relationship developed. They married on May 13, 1922, in Mexico, which resulted in Valentino’s arrest for bigamy, since he had not been divorced for a full year, as required by California law at the time. Rambova and Valentino lived separately until they were legally remarried at the Lake County Court House in Crown Point, Indiana on March 14, 1923.