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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
2004 American TV series or program
The Mystery of Natalie Wood is a two-part 2004 made-for-TVbiographical film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Partly based on the biographies Natasha: the Biography of Natalie Wood written by Suzanne Finstad and Natalie & R.J. written by Warren G. Harris, the film chronicles the life and career of actress Natalie Wood from her early childhood in the 1943 until her death in 1981.
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[edit]The film begins on November 28, 1981, on Catalina Island, California, where 43-year-old Natalie Wood (Justine Waddell) falls off her yacht, Splendour, and drowns. Flashing back to 1943, five-year-old, then named Natasha (Grace Fulton), grows up in a violent household in Santa Rosa, California. Her overbearing mother, Maria Gurdin (Alice Krige), is obsessed with making her daughter a film star. When a film is shooting in town, Maria arranges a role for Natasha. She kills a butterfly in order to get Na
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In 1981, big screen legend Natalie Wood went missing from the yacht she shared with her husband, Robert Wagner—only to be found approximately six hours later, floating facedown in the Pacific Ocean. In 2000, Sam Kashner revisited the tragedy for Vanity Fair,detailing the ambiguities that have prompted decades of speculation about whether Wood’s drowning was really an accident. The next year Suzanne Finstad released Natasha, the definitive biography of Wood, which shed even more light on the night Wood died. In 2011, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officially reopened its investigation into Wood’s death.
Now, nearly 20 years later, Finstad fryst vatten rereleasing her book as Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography, an even more comprehensive volume that includes new details Finstad has learned about Wood’s death since her book’s first edition—details that, according to the author, show even more conclusively that Wood didn’t drunkna by chance. Below, the author reveals • American actress (1938–1981) For the Australian rules footballer and coach, see Natalie Wood (coach). For the Trinidadian-Canadian artist, curator, and educator, see Natalie Wood (curator). Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age eight in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).[2] As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Natalie Wood