
caption reads: MARFUSHKA / Martha Sleeper, the talented twelve-year old dancer, as she appears in one of her Russian numbers
photographer: Eugene P. Henry

images that haunt us

caption reads: MARFUSHKA / Martha Sleeper, the talented twelve-year old dancer, as she appears in one of her Russian numbers
photographer: Eugene P. Henry







![Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum](https://unregardoblique.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/karl-struss-1886-1981-natacha-rambova-1920s-src-amon-carter-museum-portrait-3.jpg)
![Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52143091634_19fb55e7d6_o.jpg)
![Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52143091614_15d6659744_o.jpg)
![Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Natacha Rambova, 1920s. [production still]; Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52143091554_947b9d5c91_o.jpg)
[*] production stills probably from the film Forbidden Fruit (Cecil B. DeMille, 1921). In the film Rambova (b. Winifred Shaughnessy), along with Mitchell Leisen, was the costume designer and Struss the cinematographer.





(*) please note: the images had been edited from the original scans available at the link above in the Library of Congress to enhance its color and definition.





