(Dailynewyorknews) – Natalie Wood was terrified of water.
As a 11 year old shooting “The Green Promise”, which was thrown from a bridge during a storm scene and almost drowned. The incident marked him for life.
Thirty-two years later, Wood died after falling into the ocean off Catalina Island, California.
Wood’s life is full of such curiosities. It ‘was the executor rare step child adult movie star, but his rise to success has been marked by uneasy relations. It was a beauty and talent, but he suffered from alcohol abuse, and once attempted suicide.
And then there’s death came just as he was to resume his film career.
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The story surrounding the death of the wood has been one of the great mysteries of Hollywood. She made a comeback in a science fiction film promotes “Brainstorm” and was on his yacht with her husband, Robert Wagner and his co-star Christopher Walken.
Aspects of the life of Wood rose only speculation. How can someone so young with a good marriage and career revitalized, dying like that?
Captain Wood describes cover-up story
Wood was a star for decades, so the box-office draw and an Oscar-nominated actress. Among his films were some of the largest and most influential of the years 1950 and ’60, as “Rebel Without a Cause,” “West Side Story” and “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.”
“It was as if he had movie star stamped on his birth certificate,” Wagner once said.
In fact, seemed doomed to fame from the beginning.
Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko Wood was born, the daughter of Russian immigrants in San Francisco in 1938. The family later changed its name to Gurdin.
At age 4, she had a small role in 1943 of “Happy Land” for a production company has seen in the vicinity of Santa Rosa. His mother, for her daughter to do the film, the family moved to Los Angeles, and young Natalia, Natalie Wood’s famous studio, soon won a role in the movie 1946-Orson Welles “Tomorrow is always . ”
Welles was impressed by the scene of the robbery of the young. “It’s frightening,” said the one described. (Sister Wood, Lana, have also done well, later, many O’Toole play the James Bond film “Diamonds Are Forever.”)
In the late 40 to mid-50s, she was one of the most active child artist in the film, appearing in films such as 1947 “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” and 1950 “Never a dull moment . “But for several years, she was better known as Santa Claus believers of children in the 1947″ Miracle on 34th Street, “opposite Maureen O’Hara and Edmund Gwen.
Later, he looked back to his childhood years in pain and a little ‘anger.
“I spent most of my time with adults. I was very withdrawn, shy, I did what you said and tried not to disappoint anyone. I knew I had a duty, and I was trained to follow orders,” said once. His relationship with his mother sometimes bitter.
It was not until the start of work “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955), also starring James Dean and Sal Mineo, she has taken in roles of maturity. The film featured wood’s girlfriend Dean Jim Stark is anxiety in the role that made Dean a generational symbol. Wood was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance.
But 1961 was the two films, the film version of the Broadway hit “West Side Story” and the romantic tragedy of “Splendor in the Grass,” which made him the top-level movie star.
In “West Side Story”, a version of “Romeo and Juliet” set in the gang culture in New York, Wood played Maria, the heroine unhappy. Although her singing voice was called, his performance earned him critical acclaim in what has become one of the most acclaimed films of all time.
“Splendor in the Grass” is left behind, either, for her role opposite Warren Beatty, Wood picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
The press attention. Wood was to sell glamorous, she was often presented with Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren, as one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood. She also had a wedding with delicious photogenic Wagner, whom she married in 1957 when she was 18 and he was 27 The marriage was one of the most famous of his time.
“We drove the Corvette around the country. Radio announce we were just passing through, and people waiting for us in every little town,” Wood told People magazine in 1976.
But the marriage did not last for Wagner, resigned from the couple in 1962. She married her second husband, agent Richard Gregson, in 1969. The two had a daughter, Natasha.
There were some dark moments – Wood attempted suicide in 1966 – but overall it has gained the confidence as an actor in the ’60s. (Psychoanalysis Hardcore – has continued almost every day for several years – never mind.) It was named “Star of the Year” by the theater owners in 1963 and appeared in some popular movies such as “Gypsy” (1962) “Sex and the Single Girl “(1963) and” The Great Race “(1965).
Although he refused demanding roles, one of which is “Bonnie and Clyde”, he returned back to wife swapping comedy “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” (1969), where he reputedly earned $ 3 million (thanks to cut it with wisdom, taking victory).
However, with the exception of a handful of roles, “Bob & Carol,” also marked the end of the number of Hollywood film career. He resigned from the Gregson in 1972, and after having adapted to Wagner, he married the same year.
She told People that she had some reservations about putting his career on the back burner.
“If a woman decides to marry and have children, other parts of your life is only going to have to put aside,” he said.
By many accounts, and Wagner had a strong marriage the second time. They had a daughter, Courtney, and has become one of Hollywood’s power couples. Wood remains busy with the film from time to time.
Troubled production, a mysterious end
“Brainstorm” won not only a cover for the casting of wood – it was his third theatrical film from “Bob & Carol” – but also for its technological paraphernalia director, Douglas Trumbull, was recognized for his effects work. Special “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and the film was shot in a special format.
But “Brainstorm” was plagued by production problems, and rumors began to circulate about the wood and the conditions that Walken TCM.com notes in his writeup of the film. Wagner, who visited North Carolina, set during a break in his TV series “Hart to Hart” had his suspicions.
“The bell rang, not exactly, but I knew he had his full attention,” he wrote in his memoirs of 2008. “She was more involved in the film with his family, and I thought that Natalie was emotionally unfaithful.”
The shooting continued in Hollywood, and during the Thanksgiving holiday, invited Wagner and Walken Wood relaxing on their yacht, Splendour, named after “Splendor in the grass.”
The rest of the turbid water is lost from the coast of California, November 29, 1981, when the tree is dead. His funeral, his coffin, including Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck.
Affected by the consequences of living well away from the boat. He wanted to close the studio shots, Trumbull had to find other funding sources for the perfect movie. After its release in 1983, “Brainstorm” was a dud at the box office, Trumbull, and never directed another film.
Dr. Thomas Noguchi, Los Angeles County coroner, was demoted in 1982 after an investigation by the Board of County Supervisors on problems with his work, including advertising, will search for dead celebrities.
Wagner saw the death of Wood years before married Jill St. John, one of the closest friends of Woods in 1990.
Although her image has faded in comparison with some of his contemporaries, like Taylor or Dean, he still looked up to young actors. Vanessa Hudgens, “High School Musical” star, Wood calls his “idol”.
The wood was blunt about its impact.
“To be honest, there is no functional importance. Einstein is important. Jonas Salk is important. I know that you’re not going to send my last film in the Time Capsule,” he once said.
What she wanted, apparently, was more of life. Shortly before his death, gave an interview and asked if he was satisfied. After all, had two children, a wonderful husband, fame, money and beauty. What can?
He did not hesitate: “I’d like yesterday.”
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/19/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/natalie-wood-life/index.html
