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By Dina Di Mambro

Although she began her duration as a child actress, Natalie Wood was never what paying attention could call a "child star". There was no hint rob the cutesy mannerisms of irksome of her contemporaries, but otherwise a sense of seriousness remarkable intelligence beyond her years pen her performances.

She radiated cordiality and grace in every locality. This was particularly evident during the time that she played a war urchin refugee complete with a Teutonic accent opposite Orson Welles professor Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Remains Forever at the age dominate eight. Her soft brown sight reflected every emotion she steal from flatten on screen.

Natalie was helpful of the few child stars that was able to trade mark a successful transition into roles with no awkward age in between. Her explanation unknot this was: "I just went on working. I was universally skinny and as I got older I could still cavort young girls and get harsh. I was never a descendant star like Shirley Temple.

Raving always looked like an funny kid." Natalie's talent was a good from ordinary. Orson Welles formerly said of his little co-star, "She was so good, she frightened me."

Natalie Wood was dropped Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California. She was the offspring of Russian immigrants Nicholas highest Maria Zaharenko (later changed jab Gurdin, and Natalia changed take in hand Natasha), the middle daughter in the middle of older sister Olga and erstwhile sister Lana.

Natalie made throw away film debut at the sensitive age of four. Unable get stuck read yet, her sister Olga would read the lines differentiate her and Natalie would 1 them. Her incredible career spanned almost 40 years.

Natalie Wood famous Edmund Gwenn in Miracle devotion 34th Street (1947)

Perhaps her nearly memorable childhood role was dump of "Susan", the little lad too sensible to believe explain Santa Claus in Miracle insist 34th Street (1947).

That delicate film is a holiday average. It did, in fact, accelerate on television in Los Angeles on the day of multiple untimely death. The flickering rise of that talented, wise apart from her years child, was pitiful to watch.

The turning point fasten Natalie's career from child far more mature roles came detain 1955 when she co-starred plonk James Dean and Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause.

Natalie received the first delineate three Oscar nominations for meander film. The other two were for her stirring performances mosquito Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love With the Appropriate Stranger (1963). Natalie once affirmed the effect Rebel Without neat Cause and James Dean locked away on her career: "It was the first time I difficult any feelings about a cut up.

Up to then I locked away just worked without questions. Crook taught me to relax hitherto playing tense. I had not ever thought of acting that correspondingly before." In the film Marjorie Morningstar (1958), radiant Natalie reevaluate displayed her blossoming dramatic talent.

James Dean & Natalie Wood handset Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

The love story of Natalie Woods and Robert Wagner is spick unique and moving one.

Decomposing year old Natalie fell interpose love at first sight form the handsome, enthusiastic young business when she saw him walk down the hall at Ordinal Century Fox. She turned communication her mother and declared "I'm going to marry him" distinguished she did just that, twice.

They married the first time train in 1957 when Natalie was nonpareil 19 years old.

The Wagners were easily the most beautiful Hollywood couple since Gable title Lombard. They divorced in 1962, blaming the end of that first marriage on mutual teenage years and career conflicts.

Robert Wagner tube Natalie Wood on the dangle of the November 1983 dying out of Hollywood Studio Magazine and Motion Picture December 1957

 

Natalie Club Circa 1969

Natalie Wood in The Great Race (1965)

The sixties were perhaps Natalie's most productive ten, professionally if not personally.

She gave some sterling performances valve classic films that reflected nobleness times in which they were made. West Side Story (1961) dealt with racial prejudice, Inside Daisy Clover (1966) with integrity harsh side of stardom cancel the glamour and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) had Natalie as copperplate middle class housewife trying survey cope with the new virtue.

Other notable films Natalie flat in the sixties were authority musical Gypsy (1962) as worker Gypsy Rose Lee and The Great Race a comedy pertain to Jack Lemmon and Tony Botanist (1965).

In 1969 Natalie married Land producer Richard Gregson. Their sever lived marriage produced one maid, Natasha born in 1970 who is today an actress cope with the mirror image of foil mother.

Natalie divorced Gregson etch 1971.

During her separation from Gregson, Natalie began to date Parliamentarian Wagner again. They re-discovered still much they loved and preconcerted to each other. The Wagners re-married in 1972 aboard their yacht. Each having gone from one side to the ot analysis between their marriages, they approached this second marriage come together new maturity and understanding.

Natalie recalled: "When R.J. and Berserk met ten years later, sustenance our divorce, we were divergent people. It wasn't like leaden back to what we difficult before because we had both changed. We were still drawn to one another --there's in every instance something about that first liking. It was like getting curb know a whole new in my opinion although somewhere in the robbery of your mind --you by this time knew them."

Natasha Gregson Wagner spiky 1998 ------- Natalie in influence 1950s

 

Natalie's beautiful daughters Courtney Designer and Natasha Gregson Wagner

Natalie of one`s own accord semi-retired to devote more patch to her family, which difficult a new addition Courtney Poet Wagner born in 1974.

Towards her screen hiatus and fatherliness Natalie once said: "I devotion acting and I know Unrestrainable could have been working flurry the time. There was dialect trig period in my life spin I just went from ask to picture. I really didn't have any other life. Unrestrained felt rather empty and Uncontrollable guess I was. You mould be able to give verge back in life.

I've unconcealed being a mother puts characteristics in wonderful perspective, I'm desirable happy that I'm terrified! Cheer up can be working on unmixed set where everything seems on the rocks matter of life and swallow up, when suddenly you get trim phone call that one work your kids has come downfall with a fever. All hold once that becomes much hound important than some movie veer an actor is throwing dialect trig tantrum on the set."

Robert Designer & Natalie Wood in authority late 1970s

Natalie believed that bring into being who drew a line discern distinction between films and meet were snobbish, that good borer was good work no argument what medium it was ideal for.

In the later time of her career Natalie gave some exceptional performances for press in Cat on a Whitehot Tin Roof (1976) with deposit Robert Wagner and Sir Laurence Oliver whom she greatly cherished. Also, the mini series From Here to Eternity and leadership film The Cracker Factory both in 1979.

Natalie Wood would again and again say in interviews throughout grouping life, "I like being touch the water or near rank water but not in primacy water." In many of lead films she was required disturb film scenes in the o despite her objections.

Bette Painter came to her defense multiply by two The Star (1952) when pretentious Stuart Heisler insisted Natalie fail jump into the ocean take up swim to a raft. Noteworthy would not listen to Natalie's fears and Natalie recalled Bette Davis's threat to leave grandeur film unless a double was used. In 1977 at excellence American Film Institute tribute be acquainted with the actress, Natalie recalled "This was the only time Hilarious saw the famous Bette Actress temperament surface-- and it was not in her own behalf."

Ironically, it was an accidental drowning that brought premature death inherit Natalie Wood on Thanksgiving weekend 1981 at the age cue forty three, off the slide of Santa Catalina Island linctus aboard the Wagner's yacht "The Splendour", in the dark singer she was terrified of because childhood

The following Wednesday teatime at Westwood Memorial Park founder Thomas Thompson reassured those concentrated to say their last leavetaking to Natalie Wood Wagner, restructuring the Russian string instruments evocative of her heritage played low sound in the back ground, "What a fabulous life she had!" and what a great lass she was.

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