Natalie Wood - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Music Department Natalie Wood was born on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, as Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. Her parents, Maria Stepanovna (Zudilova) and Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko, were Russian-born émigrés, of Ukrainian and Russian descent, who spoke barely comprehensible English; they changed the family name to Gurdin after becoming US citizens.... See full bio » Born: a list of 32 people created 23 Jan 2011 a list of 40 people created 04 Dec 2011 a list of 25 people created 29 May 2014 a list of 22 people created 23 Jan 2015 a list of 38 people created 1 month ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Natalie Wood's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 27 nominations.

See more awards » Known For The Searchers Debbie Edwards - Age 15 (1956) 1979 Hart to Hart (TV Series) Movie Star 1979 The Cracker Factory (TV Movie) Cassie Barrett Girl in the Bubble Bath / Cruise Ship Passenger - The Cage (1978) ...

Girl in the Bubble Bath 1973 The Affair (TV Movie) Courtney Patterson 1954-1957 Studio 57 (TV Series) Sheila Mason 1955-1956 Kings Row (TV Series) Renee Gyllinson 1955 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) Louise 1954 Public Defender (TV Series) Renee Marchand 1954 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (TV Series) Monica 2010/I White Snow (writer: "Number Ones") 1973 The Affair (TV Movie) (performer: "I Can't See You Anymore") 1966 Penelope (performer: "The Sun Is Gray") 1965 Inside Daisy Clover (performer: "You're Gonna Hear from Me", "The Circus Is a Wacky World" - uncredited) 1965 The Great Race (performer: "The Sweetheart Tree") 1962 Gypsy (performer: "Little Lamb" (1959), "If Momma Was Married" (1959), "Let Me Entertain You" (

1959), "Together, Wherever We Go" (1959) - uncredited) 1961 West Side Story (performer: "Maria" (1957) (1957), "Tonight" (1957), "I Feel Pretty" (1957), "One Hand, One Heart" (1957), "Quintet" (1957), "Somewhere" (1957), "A Boy Like That/I Have a Love" (1957), "Somewhere" (reprise) (1957) - uncredited) - Pat Suzuki and Natalie Wood (1958) ...

(performer: "Them There Eyes" - uncredited) Hide 1973 The Affair (TV Movie) (musician: title song) Hide 1969 Downhill Racer (production assistant - uncredited) Hide 1989 Dieter & Andreas (Short) (grateful acknowledgment) 1983 Brainstorm (dedicatee - as Natalie) Hide 1978-1980 Good Morning America (TV Series) Herself - Guest 1979 The 51st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film 1974 ABC Late Night (TV Series) Herself 1974 Cinema (TV Series documentary) Herself 1974 James Dean Remembered (TV Special documentary) Herself 1973 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) Herself - Guest 1966 Penelope's Fashion Show (Documentary short) Herself (uncredited) 1966 What's My Line?

(TV Series) Herself - Mystery Guest 1957 The 29th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) Herself - Audience Member 1956 The Linkletter Show (TV Series) Herself 1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) Herself - Intermission Guest Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role Hide 2015 Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) Herself 2005-2012 American Masters (TV Series documentary) Herself / Judy 2012 Banda sonora (TV Series) Maria 2011 48 Hours (TV Series documentary) Herself 2006 Private Screenings (TV Series) Herself 2003 Christmas from Hollywood (Video documentary) Herself 2000-2003 Biography (TV Series documentary) Herself / Judy 2003 Bob Hope at 100 (TV Movie documentary) Herself (uncredited) 2000 The Final Day (TV Mini-Series documentary) Herself 1996 Rediscovering a Rebel (TV Short documentary) Herself (uncredited) 1

995 Barbra: The Concert (TV Special documentary) Herself - at a Nightclub (uncredited) 1994 100 Years at the Movies (TV Short documentary) Herself 1990 Rock Hudson (TV Movie) Herself (uncredited) 1963 Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV Movie documentary) Herself (uncredited) Personal Details Other Works: (12/22/47) Radio: Appeared (as "Susan Walker") in a "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast of "Miracle on 34th Street".

Publicity Listings: 3 Biographical Movies | 4 Print Biographies | 2 Portrayals | 2 Interviews | 10 Articles | 15 Pictorials | 19 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Alternate Names: Did You Know? Personal Quote: [on dating Elvis Presley when she was 18] Elvis was so square, we'd go... for hot fudge sundaes. He didn't drink, he didn't swear, he didn't even smoke. It was like having the date that I never had in high school. See more » Trivia: Her paternal grandparents were Stephan Zakharenko and Eudoxie Sauchenko, and her maternal grandparents were Stepan Ilich Zudilov and Maria Andreevna Kuleva. She was of Russian and Ukrainian ancestry. Her father was an architect and her mother was a ballerina. She could do a proper plié before she could barely walk. See more » Trademark: Small petite frame See more » Nickname: The gorgeous Natalie Wood from a child star to a Hollywood diva The gorgeous Natalie Wood from a child star to a Hollywood diva SHARE: Facebook Twitter Natalie Wood was an American film and television actress.

She is known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th Street,Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, The Searchers, and West Side Story. She first worked in films as a child, then became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old. Wood in a press photo was taken in 1947 Source Wood with her Mexican Chihuahua in 1947 Source Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and, at age eight, was given a co-starring role with Maureen O’Hara in the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street. As a teenager, her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1963) and received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969).

Wood in the film The Great Run (1966) Source Wood in the film Penelope (1966) S ource After this, she took a break from acting and had two children, appearing in only three theatrical films during the 1970’s. She was married to actor Robert Wagner twice, and to producer Richard Gregson. She had one daughter by each husband: actress Natasha Gregson Wagner and Courtney Wagner. Her younger sister Lana Wood is also an actress. Wood starred in several television productions, including a remake of the film From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. During her career from child actress to adult star, her films represented a “coming of age” for both her and Hollywood films in general. Wood in the film Penelope (1966) Source Wood in The Jack Benny Show (1959) Source Wood with Tom Bernard in Pride of the Family (1954).

Source Wood in the film Gypsy (1962) Source Natalie Wood — The Movie Database (TMDb) Biography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko ;July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress. Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947). A well received performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and helped her to make the transition from a child performer. She then starred in the musicals West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962). She also received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued successfully with films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969).

After this she took a break from acting and had two children, appearing in only two theatrical films during the 1970s. She was married to actor Robert Wagner twice, and to producer Richard Gregson. She had one daughter by each: Natasha Gregson and Courtney Wagner. Her younger sister, Lana Wood, is also an actress. Wood starred in several television productions, including a remake of the film From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood drowned near Santa Catalina Island, California at age 43. She had not yet completed her final film, the science fiction drama Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken, which was released posthumously. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalie Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. 1000+ images about NATALIE WOOD on Pinterest | Actresses, 1960s and Single girls natalie wood family | ... very young Natalie Wood dancing for her family See More Natalie Wood Findings: Was the Actress Bruised Before She Drowned?

- The Daily Beast Frank Worth/Courtesy of Emage International, via Getty Findings Natalie Wood Findings: Was the Actress Bruised Before She Drowned? Did the actress accidentally drown—or was she assaulted before she hit the water? Christine Pelisek on a new report that could cast the glamorous star’s death in a disturbing light. Christine Pelisek 01.14.13 9:37 PM ET The Los Angeles County coroner’s office released a stunning report Monday that calls into question original findings that Natalie Wood accidentally drowned off the coast of California in 1981. The glamorous star’s death has been reclassified to “drowning and other undetermined factors.” The report, which was completed in May but only released Monday, specifically honed in on unexplained bruises found on the Rebel Without a Cause actress’s arm, legs, neck, and face. Chief medical examiner Dr.

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran concluded that he was “unable to exclude non-accidental mechanism causing these injuries,” and that “the bruises especially in the upper extremities appeared fresh and could have occurred before she entered the water.” Wood’s case was reopened by the coroner’s office in the fall of 2011 after the L.A. sheriff’s office asked for a reevaluation of the original findings. One of Hollywood’s greatest unsolved mysteries, each new development in the case has stirred up a frenzy of interest. Because the bulk of the forensic evidence in the case had been destroyed or missing, Sathyavagiswaran based his autopsy findings on a reexamination of the existing evidence: 10 histology slides that were found of the bruises, the fact that Wood had no history of suicide attempts, and new information provided by the sheriff’s department. To be clear, the details of Wood’s death are still murky at best. “There are conflicting statements as to when [Wood] went missing from the boat and whether there were verbal arguments between the [actress] and her husband,” Sathyavagiswaran wrote. He did not reclassify the case as a homicide.

Nor was he able to determine exactly when the injuries happened. “This Medical Examiner,” he wrote, however, “is unable to exclude non-volitional, unplanned entry into the water.'' Bill McSweeney, chief detective at the L.A. sheriff’s office, was careful to temper the new findings. “We’ve been working with that information for a long time,” he said. “Nothing has changed. We have an open case, and we will always keep looking at everything.” According to reports at the time, Wood, then 43, drowned after a night of partying with her husband, actor Robert Wagner, and The Deer Hunter actor Christopher Walken. They were spending the weekend on a yacht called Splendour. On the night of her death, the three had drinks and dinner at a local restaurant on Catalina Island, and then continued drinking back on the yacht, where Wagner and Walken began a verbal fight, according to law-enforcement officials. While they were arguing, Wood went to the bathroom, and later Wagner went to look for her and discovered she was missing. Officials said they believed Wood slipped off the yacht when she went on deck to reattach a dinghy that came loose.

Others, such as Natalie’s sister, Lana Wood, and the boat’s captain, Dennis Davern, have said they believed the actress and Wagner quarreled that night about Walken, who was costarring with Natalie in a movie. In 2011, Davern, who was on the yacht the night the actress died, and Lana Wood, asked the sheriff’s department to reopen the case. Davern along with Marti Rulli, who co-authored a book with Davern about the night Wood drowned, delivered a package to the sheriff’s department containing six signed statements from Lana Wood, Davern, a woman on a nearby yacht who claimed she heard Wood screaming for help, and Roger Smith, a Coast Guard staffer who helped recover Wood’s body. The sheriff’s department reopened the case and re-interviewed the witnesses, but has not made any arrests in the case. In the new autopsy findings, Sathyavagiswaran reported that because of the partially digested food material found in her stomach, Wood most likely drowned at midnight, one-and-a-half hours before the call from the Splendour came at 1:30 a.m. reporting her missing.

“She drowned within a short time of her entry into the water,” he wrote. Wood was found the following morning floating face up in the Pacific Ocean and wearing a blue-and-red flannel nightgown, argyle socks, and a red down jacket. The dinghy was discovered near the shoreline with the key in the ignition in the off position, the gear in neutral, and the oars tied down—indicating the boat had never been used, according to the report. Natalie Wood began her acting career at the age of 4 and starred in dozens of movies. She was transformed from a well-known child actress to a sought-after movie star in 1955, after she starred opposite James Dean and Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. Two years later, she beat out Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn for the title role in Marjorie Morningstar. In 1961, she starred in West Side Story and Splendor in the Grass. And, in 1962, she starred in Gypsy. Wood married Robert Wagner twice.

They married in 1956, divorced in 1965, and remarried in 1972. She later starred in such films as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Meteor. She was working on the MGM production Brainstorm with Walken when she drowned over Thanksgiving weekend. READ THIS LIST 1000+ images about Natalie Wood on Pinterest | Natalie wood, West side story and Gypsy rose lee Learn more at overstock.com Natalie Wood: Reflections on a Legendary Life (Hardcover) In the 1950s and '60s, there was no star that shone brighter than Natalie Wood.

As a child actor who smoothly transitioned to adult roles, Natalie made an unforgettable impact on the world with her se More More Natalie Wood - Biography - IMDb Natalie Wood Biography Showing all 98 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (67) | Personal Quotes (9) | Salary (10) Overview (5) 5' (1.52 m) Mini Bio (1) Natalie Wood was born on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, as Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. Her parents, Maria Stepanovna (Zudilova) and Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko, were Russian-born émigrés, of Ukrainian and Russian descent, who spoke barely comprehensible English; they changed the family name to Gurdin after becoming US citizens. When she was just four years old, Natalie appeared in her first film, Happy Land (1943).

A production company had come to Santa Rosa, California, where the Gurdins were living and Natalie won a bit part of a crying little girl who had just dropped her ice cream cone. With stars in her eyes for her daughter, Mrs. Gurdin packed the family and moved south to Los Angeles in the hopes that more films would come her daughter's way. Unfortunately they did not, at least not at first, and the family continued to scrape by much as they had done in Santa Rosa. In 1946 Natalie tested for a role in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946). She was only seven at the time, and flunked the screen test. Natalie's mother convinced the studio heads to give her another test, and this time she was convincing enough that they gave Natalie the role. In 1947's Miracle on 34th Street (1947), she won the hearts of movie patrons around the country as Susan Walker in a film that is considered a Christmas classic to this day. Natalie stayed very busy as a child actress, appearing in no less than 18 films in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

When she was 16 Natalie appeared in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) with James Dean , Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper . She played Judy, a rebellious high school student who was more concerned with hanging out with the wrong crowd than being a sweet teenager like her contemporaries. The result was her first Academy Award nomination and a defining moment in her development as an adult actress. She appeared in Splendor in the Grass (1961), West Side Story (1961), Gypsy (1962), and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). While Natalie was reported to be unhappy making "West Side Story", the film did win Oscars for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. In short, it was a smash hit. Although she wasn't nominated for an Academy Award in that one, she did receive nominations for her roles in "Splendor in the Grass" and "Love with the Proper Stranger". After This Property Is Condemned (1966) in 1966, Natalie stayed away from Hollywood for three years to have time for herself and to consider where she was going.

When she did return her star quality had not diminished a bit, as evidenced by her playing Carol Sanders in the hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). From that point on Natalie didn't work as much. She made a few television appearances, but nothing of substance with the exception of the TV mini-series From Here to Eternity (1979). After making The Last Married Couple in America (1980), Natalie began work on Brainstorm (1983) in the fall of 1981 with Christopher Walken . She did not live to see it released. On November 29, 1981, she was sailing on the yacht she shared with her husband, Robert Wagner, and their friend Walken, when Natalie fell in the ocean while trying to board the dinghy tied up alongside the yacht and drowned. She was 43 years old. Natalie had made 56 films for TV and the silver screen and it's hard to say what she could have done while making her comeback. "Brainstorm" was finally released in 1983. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson Spouse (3) Named after director Sam Wood .

Her favorite actress was Vivien Leigh and her favorite singer was Bob Dylan . She suffered from a deep fear of drowning after having barely survived an accident when she was a little girl, during the filming of The Green Promise (1949). Her fear was so great that Elia Kazan had to lie - promising a double - and trick her into doing the scenes at the water reservoir in Splendor in the Grass (1961). Following her untimely death, she was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. On her grave, marked Natalie Wood Wagner: Beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother & friend "more than love". Was commonly listed as 5' 3" wearing heels in movie magazines, though her actual height was 5' 0". The Harvard Lampoon often singled her out for derision. On Saturday, April 23, 1966, she surprised the Lampoon's staff when she became the first performer they voted the year's worst to show up and accept her citation.

Reportedly turned down Warren Beatty 's offer to play opposite him in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) because she did not want to be separated from her analyst while the film was on location in the Midwest. Splendour, the name of the yacht Wood was on the night she died, was named after her movie Splendor in the Grass (1961). An accident on a movie set (she fell into a river and almost drowned) when she was 9 years old left her with a permanently weakened left wrist and a slight bone protrusion, which, for the rest of her life, she hid with large bracelets. Regardless of the movie role, or anytime that she was out in public, she always wore a large bracelet on the left wrist. The rubber dinghy "Prince Valiant" she had allegedly been trying to board after falling from husband Robert Wagner 's yacht that fateful Thanksgiving weekend in 1981, was named after Wagner's movie Prince Valiant (1954), a film the actor considered among his worst.

Had planned to produce as well as star in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), but the leading role of Deborah Blake went to Kathleen Quinlan by the time the film was made. Attended ballet classes as a child with Jill St. John and Stefanie Powers . All three women would go on to have long-term relationships with Robert Wagner . Pallbearers at her funeral were Rock Hudson , Frank Sinatra , Laurence Olivier , Elia Kazan , Gregory Peck , David Niven and Fred Astaire . Gave birth to her first child at age 32, a daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner on September 29, 1970. Child's father is her second husband, Richard Gregson . Gave birth to her second child at age 35, a daughter Courtney Wagner on March 9, 1974. Child's father is her third husband, Robert Wagner . Her death was kismet, as she always cited a fear of water. Her and co-star Richard Beymer 's singing voices were both dubbed in West Side Story (1961).

The woman who dubbed Natalie, Marni Nixon , also dubbed Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (1964) and Deborah Kerr in The King and I (1956). It was later reported that Wood was disappointed that her singing voice was not use in the movie. Her paternal grandparents were Stephan Zakharenko and Eudoxie Sauchenko, and her maternal grandparents were Stepan Ilich Zudilov and Maria Andreevna Kuleva. She was of Russian and Ukrainian ancestry. Her father was an architect and her mother was a ballerina. She could do a proper plié before she could barely walk. Her mother, Maria, claimed that the family was closely related to the Romanov dynasty. Spoke Russian and English. Though some people cite her mother as being French, her mother is Russian. The source of this misconception comes from the studio that Natalie worked at when she was a child -- people noticed her mother's accent and when asked if she was French, Maria replied: "Oh yes", a white lie that would contribute to this confusion. Younger sister Lana Wood made a ABC TV special on Natalie's life, The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004).

Was offered a chance to play Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1974) under the condition that she screen test for the role. She refused to do the screen test and Mia Farrow was given the part. Turned down Ali MacGraw 's breakthrough role in Goodbye, Columbus (1969). She was cast as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976) quite unexpectedly, without campaigning for the role. Wood explained that when Laurence Olivier would come to Hollywood, she would often be seated with him at the table at formal sit-down dinners. When Olivier decided to make a version of the Tennessee Williams play, he thought of casting Wood, his dinner companion, and her husband, Robert Wagner , in the husband-wife roles of Brick and Maggie. Naturally, they accepted. Wood knew screenwriter Gavin Lambert as both were intimates of director Randy Suhr . In the early '60s, he wrote a novel about an adolescent Hollywood starlet in the 1930s titled Inside Daisy Clover (1965). After reading the book, Wood telephoned Lambert and said, "I'd kill for that part.".

He assured her she was his first choice for the movie, for which he was writing the screenplay. She got the part and Ruth Gordon got her first Oscar nomination as an actress for portraying Daisy's mother. Both she and her sister Lana Wood have played the love interest of Richard Beymer in two separate films: she as Maria opposite Richard's Tony in West Side Story (1961), and Lana as Karen opposite Richard's Dean in Scream Free! (1969) (aka Free Grass). She was the inspiration of High School Musical (2006) star Vanessa Hudgens . Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 889-890. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. People magazine (USA) named her one of "The 25 Most Intriguing People of 1976" for the January 3, 1977 issue. Entertainment Weekly placed her on the "100 greatest stars of all time" list, at #70.

Voted one of the top sex stars of the 1970s in Playboy magazine. Called "The Most Beautiful Teenager in the World" by Life magazine in 1956. Once interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger , before his career took off, for the magazine "Hollywood Reporter" in 1979, two years before her her death. The article was entitled "The Body meets the Face". Her death was listed at number 24 on E! Television's 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment. Don Henley wrote the song "Dirty Laundry" to express his outrage at the tabloid press for their treatment of her after her death. Met Robert Redford while attending Van Nuys High School. Redford was later her leading man in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) and This Property Is Condemned (1966). There could have been two more collaborations, had Wood starred in Barefoot in the Park (1967) and The Great Gatsby (1974), both of which she turned down. "Natalie's Song" by David Pack, was written about Natalie Wood.

"Eyes Like Natalie Wood" by Kathy Fleischmann, was written about her. Former stepmother of Katie Wagner . Started smoking at age 16. Gypsy (1962) co-star Morgan Brittany said of Wood, "I never saw her without a cigarette, ever.". Godmother of her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner was Ruth Gordon , who played Natalie's mother in the film Inside Daisy Clover (1965). Rehearsals for her stage debut in "Anastasia" were to begin in December 1981. Her niece was born in August 1974. She was the subject of the 2001 biography "Natasha" by former attorney Suzanne Finstad . Finstad interviewed nearly 400 people in researching Wood and had the cooperation of her sister, who narrated the audio version. The book is controversial and makes shocking claims regarding the actress's early sex life, complex relationship with Robert Wagner , level of substance abuse and mysterious death. Had an affair with 43-year-old director Nicholas Ray when she was 16 years old.

According to a multitude of publications, other way-older (by at least two decades) men romantically linked to the underage Wood included Raymond Burr , John Ireland and Frank Sinatra . Was the youngest nominee in her category each of the three times she was nominated for an Oscar, the first being when she was 17 and the last when she was 25. Has multiple connections with the James Bond franchise. Her sister, Lana Wood , briefly appeared in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), in which Jill St. John (who is married to Wood's widower, Robert Wagner ) was the lead actress. Wood co-starred in Meteor (1979) with Sean Connery , who played the James Bond character in seven films, and in Brainstorm (1983), she co-starred with Christopher Walken , who was a Bond villain in A View to a Kill (1985). She also co-starred in From Here to Eternity (1979) with Kim Basinger , who was a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983) opposite Connery. Her widower, Robert Wagner, played Number Two in the Austin Powers trilogy which parodies the early Bond films.

Was Maureen O'Hara 's daughter in two movies, one being the classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Natalie referred to Maureen as Mama Maureen till her death in 1981. Columbia Pictures secured the film rights for the Henry De Vere Stacpoole novel "The Blue Lagoon" in the mid-1950s, with Natalie in the role of Emmeline Lestrange. However, the project was shelved for many years and was not filmed until the late 1970s and the film The Blue Lagoon (1980) ultimately starred Brooke Shields . Colombia bought it for the American remake of Blue Lagoon 1949 starring Jean Simmons. The first edition of the movie was made by an English company in 1923, just after the book was written. Had she lived, she would have become a first-time grandmother on 30 May 2012 when her elder daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner , gave birth to a girl named Clover Clementyne Watson. Wood's death certificate was modified to show some of the uncertainties surrounding the actress' death.

The document was amended in August 2012 and changed from accidental drowning to "drowning and other undetermined factors", according to a copy of the certificate obtained August 21, 2012 by The Associated Press. Her longtime friend, actress Hope Lange , delivered a eulogy at her funeral. She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1986. She was posthumously awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on December 7, 2007. In 1990, Dennis Hopper told a story on Late Night with David Letterman (1982) of a time when 16-year-old Natalie wanted to have an orgy in a bathtub full of champagne. Along with another young girl and actor Nick Adams , she and Hopper went up to a cabin in the mountains and filled up the tub with champagne. Natalie wanted to be the first one in. She sat down in the tub and started screaming hysterically because her private parts had been stung. She had to be rushed to the emergency room and the orgy never happened.

Admired and wanted to emulate Bette Davis , Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor . Leigh was her favorite actress. Irving Pichel 's partners, William Goetz and Leo Spitz, changed her last name to Wood in honor of director Sam Wood . Her first name Natalie was an Americanization of her Russian name. Co-star and longtime friend Robert Hyatt said of her: "Natalie would get up in the morning and take a Dexie [Dexadryne], then she would have a bowl of chicken noodle soup and white wine for breakfast". Pulled out of The Mirror Crack'd (1980) due to creative differences. She was cast as the Russian astrophysicist Dr. Tatiana Donskaya in Meteor (1979) because she spoke fluent Russian. In 2015, a retired FBI agent named Donald Wilson claimed he had a four-year affair with Wood starting in 1973. According to Wilson, they met in Idaho when Wood was pregnant and "taking a break" from husband Robert Wagner.

Wilson said they kept their romance a secret because the disclosure would harm both Wood's acting career and his FBI work; the two mutually agreed to stop seeing each other in 1977. Her 38-year-old daughter Courtney Wagner was arrested in 2012 for cocaine and heroin possession when police searched her Malibu home after receiving a report of gunshots fired at the house. According to Natalie's sister Lana Wood , Courtney has attempted suicide in the past and for a time was receiving psychiatric care. "My sister would be devastated if she knew how Courtney has ruined her life," said Lana. Personal Quotes (9) You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you. Then you can sit back and be a lady. [in 1961] In so many ways I think it's a bore to be sorry you were a child actor - so many people feel sorry for you automatically. At the time, I wasn't aware of the things I missed, so why should I think of them in retrospect? Everybody misses something or other.

I felt a little funny when we were going to do the bed scene, all four of us, in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). I'm open to suggestions, I'm no prude, but four is a crowd in my book. Fortunately, Dyan Cannon was there. The thought of another woman being in there in the bed helped get me through it. It's not like it sounds. It's just that I don't think I could have done it if it had been me and three men. [on being a child actor] I spent practically all my time in the company of adults. I was very withdrawn, very shy, I did what I was told and I tried not to disappoint anybody. I knew I had a duty to perform, and I was trained to follow orders. [shortly before her death] You know what I want? I want yesterday. [on dating Elvis Presley when she was 18] Elvis was so square, we'd go... for hot fudge sundaes. He didn't drink, he didn't swear, he didn't even smoke. It was like having the date that I never had in high school.

[in 1980] I've always been terrified, still am, of water -- dark water, sea water, or, you know, river water. [on Marilyn Monroe ] When you look at Marilyn on the screen, you don't want anything bad to happen to her. You really care that she should be all right... happy. [on remarrying Robert Wagner ] Sometimes it's better to have the devil you know than the devil you don't. Salary (10) NATALIE WOOD... ROSALIND RUSSELL...'GYPSY' - YouTube NATALIE WOOD... ROSALIND RUSSELL...'GYPSY' Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Nov 28, 2010 scenes from the film 'Gypsy' starring Natalie Wood.. "Gypsy" is a 1962 American musical film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical "Gypsy': A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from "Gypsy": A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for songs composed by Jule Styne. The film was remade for television in 1993. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (Harry Stradling), Best Costume Design (Orry-Kelly), and Best Music Adaptation or Treatment (Frank Perkins). Rosalind Russell won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, her second consecutive win in this category; she won the previous year for A Majority of One. Additional nominations included Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Natalie Wood), Best Actor -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Karl Malden), and New Star of the Year -- Actor (Paul Wallace). Leonard Spigelgass was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical.

Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (Russian: Наталья Николаевна Захаренко);[1] July 20, 1938 -- November 29, 1981) was an American actress. Wood began acting in movies at the age of four[2] and became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947). A well received performance opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and helped her to make the transition from a child performer. She then starred in the musicals West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962). She also received Academy Award nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued successfully with films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). After this she took a break from acting and had two children, appearing in only two theatrical films during the 1970s.

She was married to actor Robert Wagner twice, and to producer Richard Gregson. She had one daughter by each: Natasha Gregson and Courtney Wagner. Her younger sister, Lana Wood, is also an actress. Wood starred in several television productions, including a remake of the film From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood drowned near Santa Catalina Island, California at age 43. She had not yet completed her final film, the science fiction drama Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken, which was released posthumously. P.S. Natalie Wood was my favorite actress as well as my husband's. She was very talented, beautiful and a very sensitive and lovely person. We were in shock when we heard about her accidental drowning. She is still missed today. I love you Natalie. Thanks for all the great performances. Category

Question: Which star of Gypsy and West Side Story married Robert Wagner twice?
Answer: Natalie Wood