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By 1955 Maly Moore was ready to return to Hollywood. At forty-four, roles were drying up for the starlet, but when she starred in a star-studded adaption of "Macbeth", as Lady Macbeth, she was back on the market. It was a huge hit and cemented her popularity, despite her age. For her role she would win her second Oscar. Maly wowed the audience in her black and white Jacques Fath evening dress dress.
Shortly after, Maly would act in another epic film, called ("Romanov"), where she would meet her next love, the young director of the film. Born into a Russian family in New York, Leon Stravinsky was ten years her junior, and some thought much too plain for such a glamorous woman. With curly auburn hair, a love of turtlenecks, and his iconic round black glasses, they seemed an odd match. But in an interview with Vogue, Maly clarified it was his heart that had attracted her, plus a common affection for animals. For their one-year anniversary Leon gave her a pair of Persian kittens. After only being together for only two short years, Maly found out she was pregnant. A lavish wedding was planned, one that would take place in Barcelona and see the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Dean Martin in attendance. Unfortunately, it would all come to a standstill when Leon would die tragically in a plane crash, leaving Maly pregnant and alone. The story of their doomed love was front-page news, and Maly would be the recipient of countless letters of condolences, well-wishes, and prayers.
The studios were not pleased to have their star pregnant and unmarried, and soon Maly would find herself relegated to bit parts and guest appearances on TV shows. She would retire officially from acting in 1960, moving back to her chateau in Provence, where she would write a bestselling biography on her life, called ("Memorandum"). Her later years were marked by animal activism, and charitable work -- she would auction off several of her famous dresses for a local French hospital in '65 -- and the rare interviews, mostly conducted in her 19th century style kitchen, or herb garden. In 1970 Maly would reunite with her former love, the jazz singer George Dorfman, and they would spend the rest of their lives together. Maly would live on to just two weeks shy of her 100th birthday, surrounded by her family and loved ones, her animals, her memories, a photo of her son, lost in Cambodia, and the man who almost became her husband.
DBF: Leon Stravinsky
DGF: Maly Moore/Maxine Käthe Rosenbaum
DD: Nadezhda Sabine Stravinsky
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Nadezhda would be a media darling from the moment she was born, and they would closely follow her, from the time she was in pink dresses and bobby-socks to her troubled adolescence, which consisted of drugs, alcohol and much-older boyfriends. One of those boyfriends encouraged her to start singing. Nadezhda would form an all-girl rock band called Baba Yaga, that would shock audiences with their dark lyrics and onstage antics. While the band only lasted a few short years -- from '79 to '83 -- they would forever be icons for punk girls everywhere. Nadezhda would have a prosperous solo-career, and a famously rocky marriage with music producer, Rex Vaughn. The marriage lasted ten-years -- ten-years filled with domestic assault allegations, hard-drinking, and affairs. They had two children, and Nadezhda would lose custody to her husband. Finally, after so many years of hard-living and chaotic episodes, Nadezhda would go to rehab and stay sober for fifteen years, until her untimely death from lung cancer at fifty-five. A photograph of her, with her flaming red-hair and kohl-streaked eyes, belting out one of her songs, would become a bestselling image and adorn the walls of angst-ridden teens everywhere.
DD5: Nadezhda Sabine Stravinsky
DexH: Rex Harris Vaughn
DS/DS: Conrad Thorfinn Vaughn // Desmond Roan Vaughn