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Natalie Wood
20 July 1938
Natalie Wood played in 15 movies in the Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Music, Comedy, Family, Adventure, Western, Musical, Biography, Action, Sport, Music, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller genres.
Natalie Wood got succeed with average imdb rating 6.9.
Sister of Lana Wood. Half-sister of Olga Viriapaeff.
Nurse of Natasha Gregson Wagner and Courtney Wagner.
Named after director Sam Wood.
Favorite actress was Vivien Leigh.
Affliction from a deep fear of drowning after having no more than survived an accident during the filming of The Inexperienced Swear (1949), her fear was so great that Elia Kazan had to press -- heartening a two-ply -- and ruse her into doing the scenes at the inundate reservoir in Splendor in the Inform (1961).
... Interred at Westwood Memorial Leave, Los Angeles, California, USA, Detachment D, #60. On her grave, apparent Natalie Wood Wagner: Beloved daughter, sister, wife, & friend "more than love".
Was commonly listed as 5' 3" wearing heels in movie magazines, though her actual height was 5' 0".
On April 23, 1966, she made Harvard history when she became the first performer voted the year's worst by the Harvard Lampoon to guide up and accept her citation.
Reportedly turned down Warren Beatty's present oneself to play opposite him in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) because she didn't want to be separated from her analyst while the film was on location in the Midwest.
Shine, the name of the yacht Wood was on the night she died, was named after her 1961 silver screen Splendor in the Grass (1961). She co-starred in the film with former swain Warren Beatty.
An accident on a movie frustrate (she hew down into a river and barely drowned) when she was 9 years old Nautical port her with a non-stop weakened radical wrist and a slight bone protuberance, which, for the rest of her time, she hid with large bracelets. Regardless of the silver screen duty, or anytime that she was out in conspicuous, she always wore a substantial bracelet on the left wrist.
The rubber dinghy "Prince Valiant" she'd been difficult to board after falling from husband Robert Wagner's yacht that fateful Thanksgiving weekend in 1981, was named after Wagner's 1954 talkie Prince Valiant (1954), a film the actor considered among his worst.
Had planned to fruit as proficiently as name in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), but the leading role of Deborah went to Kathleen Quinlan aside the time the pellicle was made.
Executive Sydney Pollack credits her with his big bust.
Attended ballet classes with two for the nonce at once preserve Robert Wagner's third woman Jill St. John and Wagner's "Hart to Hart" (1979) co-incomparable Stefanie Powers.
Pallbearers at her funeral were Bankrupt Hudson, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Fred Astaire.
Daughter with Robert Wagner: Courtney Wagner (b. 9 Demonstration 1974).
Daughter with Richard Gregson: Natasha Gregson Wagner (b. 29 September 1970).
Her death was kismet, as she ever after cited a fearful of spray.
Had a relationship with Elvis Presley when she was 17; Elvis wanted to wed her, but his indulge did not like Natalie.
Her and co-superstar Richard Beymer's singing voices were both dubbed in West Side Detective story (1961). The spouse who dubbed Natalie, Marni Nixon, also dubbed Audrey Hepburn in My Average Lady (1964) and Deborah Kerr in The Majesty and I (1956).
The daughter of a Russian architect and a French ballerina could do a proper pli? anterior to she could just perambulate.
Her innate, Maria, claimed that the family was closely related to the Romanov dynasty.
Spoke Russian and English.
Though some people cite her pamper as being French, her dam was Russian. The source of this error comes from the studio that Natalie worked at when she was childish -- people noticed her nurturer's apart and when asked if she was French, Maria replied: "Oh yes", a white lie that would play a part to this misunderstanding.
Younger sister Lana Wood made a ABC TV special on Natalie's vigour, The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004) (TV).
Wore clothes size 5.
Measurements: 32-20 1/2-32 (at age 18), 32B-22-33 ("Walk" magazine December 1962), (Source: Repute Sleuth magazine).
Portrayed aside Rebecca Budig in James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997) (TV), by Justine Waddell in The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004) (TV) and by Abi Teenaged in Elvis (1979/I) (TV).
Turned down the r“le of Judith Anderson in The Person's Votary (1959) because she didn't want to work with Kirk Douglas for "special" reasons.
Turned down roles in the films Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Barefoot in the Parkland (1967), Goodbye, Columbus (1969), Love Story (1970), The Great Gatsby (1974) and The Mirror image Rupture'd (1980).
She was cast as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976) (TV) quite unexpectedly, without campaigning for the responsibility. 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 absolute to rectify a version of the Tennessee Williams trifle with, he reflection of casting Wood, his dinner buddy, and her husband, Robert Wagner, in the husband-wife roles of Chum and Maggie. As a matter of course, they accepted.
Wood knew screenwriter Gavin Lambert as both were intimates of head Randy Suhr. In the cock's-crow 1960s, he wrote a narrative round a Hollywood progeny star in the 1930s, Favourable Daisy Clover (1965). After reading the regulations, Wood telephoned Lambert and said, "I'd torment seeing that that segment." He assured her she was his first choice for the moving picture, for which he was novel the screenplay. She got the part and Ruth Gordon got her first Oscar nomination as an actress in the direction of portraying Daisy's mother.
Both she and her sister Lana Wood have played the love interest of Richard Beymer in 2 separate films: she as Maria opposite Richard's Tony in West Side Story (1961), and Lana as Karen opposite Richard's Dean in Caterwaul Redeem! (1969) (aka Free Grass).
She is the inspiration of High School Musical (2006) (TV) inimitable, Vanessa Hudgens.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Book One, 1981-1985, pages 889-890. Fashionable York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
People Journal (USA) named her everybody of "The 25 most intriguing People of 1976" for the January 3 1977 issue.
Relief Weekly placed her on the "100 greatest stars of all time" tilt, at #70.
Voted only of the top sex stars of the 1970s in Lady-killer magazine.
Called "The most Beautiful Teenager in the World" by Life story arsenal in 1955.
Once interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger, once his career took off, for the magazine "Hollywood Reporter" in 1979 two years formerly her her finish. The article was entitled "The Body meets the Effrontery".
Her death was listed at issue 24 on E! Televisions 101 Most Repulsive Moments in Relief.
Don Henley wrote the air "Villainous Laundry" to articulate his abuse at the tabloid correspondents over the extent of their treatment of her after her finish.
She is credited looking for discovering Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack.
"Natalie's Number cheaply" by David Bevy, was written about Natalie Wood.
Earlier stepmother of Katie Wagner.
Started smoking at age 16.
Godmother of her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner was co-falling star Ruth Gordon.
During the late 1960s, Natalie was one of the biggest sock-office draws in the big industry. However, after she married Robert Wagner in 1972, her career not at all fully recovered because he wanted her to defer home with their daughter and not work.
Was scheduled to make her stage launching in "Anastasia" in February 1982 and play the affection interest of Timothy Hutton in a film over called "Wilderness of the Heart." Unfortunately, both projects were canceled due to her death.
Niece, Evan Taylor Maldanado, born on August 11, 1974.
Mother Maria Gurdin died of pneumonia on January 6, 1998 at lifetime 85.
Sister Lana Wood wrote the best-selling record close by her titled "Natalie: a Report nigh Her Sister".
Played a mother in lately three films: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), The Last Married Unite in America (1980), and Brainstorm (1983).
Padre Nick Gurdin died of a heart undertake at age 66 on November 18, 1980.
Her best friends were Stefanie Powers and Carol Lynley.
Has two enormous-nephews, Nicholas and Max, and one tickety-boo-niece, Daphne Maldanado.
Campaigned suitable the roles that went to Mary Tyler Moore in Typical People (1980) and Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice (1982).
Turned down the position that went to Faye Dunaway in The Towering Inferno (1974) because she pondering the script was "middling.".
Was considered in support of the role of Elaine in The Graduate (1967) that went to Katharine Ross.
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