Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko ; July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981) is an American actress. She started her career in film as a child and became a successful Hollywood actress as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she stepped on 25 years. Her most important roles include Miracle on 34th Street , Splendor in the Grass , Rebels Without Cause , Bob & amp; Carol & amp; Ted & amp; Alice , The Searchers , and West Side Story .
Wood began acting in films at the age of four, and at the age of eight, was given a role that co-starred with Maureen O'Hara in the 1947 classic Christmas movie Miracle on 34th Street. As a teenager, his performance at Rebel Without a Cause (1955) earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962), and received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance on Splendor on Grass (1961) and Love with the Right People (1963). Her career continues with movies like Bob & amp; Carol & amp; Ted & amp; Alice (1969).
After this, he took a break from acting and had two children with different husbands, appearing in only three theatrical films during the 1970s. She married actor Robert Wagner, producer Richard Gregson, and then returned to Wagner. She has a daughter with Gregson, actress Natasha Gregson Wagner. Wood gave birth to Courtney Wagner during her second marriage with Wagner.
Wood starred in several television productions, including a remake of the film From Here to Eternity (1979), which earned him the Golden Globe Award. During his career, his films represent a "future" for both him and the Hollywood movies in general.
The wood sank on November 29, 1981, at the age of 43; events surrounding his death have become controversial because of conflicting statements of witnesses, which prompted the LASD to state the cause of death as "drowning and other undeniable factors."
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Initial years
Natalie Wood was born Natalia Zakharenko in San Francisco to the parents of Russian immigrants and Ukrainians Maria Stepanovna (nÃÆ' Â © e Zudilova, Russia: ???????????????????? 1912 -1996) and Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko (Ukraine: ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Nikolai was the son of two Ukrainians from Kharkiv, then part of the Russian Empire: Stephan Zakharenko and Eudoxia Sauchenko Nikolai was born in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.As a child, he immigrated with his mother and two brothers to Montreal, Quebec, where they moved to San Francisco where they worked as day laborers and carpenters.
Natalia's mother was born in Barnaul, southern Siberia. Her father, Stepan, works at a chocolate factory in Russia. He was killed in a street battle between the Red and White soldiers in 1918 during the Russian Civil War. After Stepan's death, Maria's mother left the country with her children, resettled as refugees in Harbin, China. Maria married Alexander Tatuloff, in China, and had a daughter, Olga (1927-2015).
Natalie likes to portray her family as a gypsy or royal landlord in Russia. In his youth, his mother dreamed of becoming an actress or ballet dancer. Natalie and her sisters were raised by Russian Orthodox Christians and remain in the church. As an adult, he stated, "I'm Russian, you know." He speaks English and Russian with an American accent.
Biographer Warren Harris writes that under the "circumstances in need" of the family, his mother may have shifted that ambition to his middle daughter, Natalia. Her mother would take Natalia to the movies as often as possible: "Natalie's only professional training is watching the stars of Hollywood children from her mother's lap," Harris said. Wood will remember it this time:
My mother often told me that the cameraman who was pointing her lens toward the audience at the end of Paramount newsreel took my picture. I will pose and smile like he will make me famous or something. I believe everything my mother told me.
Not long after Natalia was born in San Francisco, her family moved to Santa Rosa in nearby Sonoma County. Natalia (often called "Natasha", a small Russian) was noticed by crew members during a movie shoot in downtown Santa Rosa. Her mother immediately moved the family to Los Angeles to pursue a film career for her daughter. After Natalia began acting as a child, David Lewis and William Goetz, studio executives at RKO Radio Pictures, changed their name to "Natalie Wood".
Wood's sister, Svetlana Gurdin (family has changed their surname), was born in Santa Monica after moving on. Now known as Lana Wood, she also became an actress.
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Child actress
A few weeks before her fifth birthday, Wood made her film debut as a character actress in a fifteen-second scene in the 1943 movie Happy Land. Despite the short section, he attracted the attention of director, Irving Pichel. He kept in touch with Wood's family for two years, advising them when other roles appeared. The director called Wood's mother and asked her to take her daughter to Los Angeles for a screen test. Wood's mother gets so excited that she "takes the whole family to Los Angeles to live," Harris wrote. Wood's father was against the idea, but his "strong ambition to make Natalie a star" was a priority. According to Wood sister Lana, Pichel "found her and wanted to adopt her."
Wood, then seven years old, got his share. He played the German orphans post-World War II, across from Orson Welles as the guardian of Wood, and Claudette Colbert, at Tomorrow Is Forever (1946). Welles later said that Wood was born professional, "very good, he was very scary." After Wood acted in another film directed by Pichel, his mother signed it with 20th Century Fox studio for his first major role, 1947
Film historian John C. Tibbetts writes that for the next few years after his success at Miracle, Wood played the role of a princess in a series of family movies: Fred MacMurray's daughter at Father Was a Fullback and Dear Brat, Princess Margaret Sullavan in No Sad Songs for Me, Princess James Stewart at The Jackpot, Joan Blondell's abandoned daughter at The Blue Veil, and daughter of the Bette Davis character on The Star . Overall, Wood appeared in over 20 movies as a child.
Since Wood was underage during his early years as an actress, he received his formal education in many studios wherever he was contracted. California law requires that up to 18 years of age, child actors should spend at least three hours per day in the classroom, noted Harris. "He is a straight A student", and one of the few child actors to excel in arithmetic. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who directed him in Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), says that "For many years in this business, I have never met a smarter little boy." Wood remembers that period in his life, saying, "I always feel guilty when I know the crew are sitting waiting for me to finish my three hours." As soon as the teacher let us go, I ran to the location as fast as I could.
As a little actress, Wood receives significant media attention. At the age of nine, he was named the "most exciting teen movie star of the year" by Parents.
Teen stardom
In the 1953-54 television season, Wood plays Ann Morrison, the teenage daughter of The Pride of the Family, an ABC sitcom. She managed to make the transition from child star to ingÃÆ'Â nue at age 16 when she was together with James Dean and Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray's film about teenage rebellion. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. He follows this with a small role, but is important in John Ford's The Searchers (1956).
Wood graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1956. He signed a contract with Warner Brothers and remained busy for the rest of the decade in many "boyfriends" roles, which he found unsatisfactory. The studio threw it in two films opposite Tab Hunter, hoping to turn the duo into a box office draw that never materialized. Among other films made today are 1958 King Go Forth and Marjorie Morningstar. As Marjorie Morningstar, Wood plays the role of a young Jewish girl in New York City who has to deal with her family's social and religious expectations as she tries to forge her own path and separate identities. He also has detractors. Film critic Pauline Kael calls herself "the smart little girl Natalie Wood...... the machine that uses the most Hollywood style."
Adult career
Wood's characters at Rebel Without a Cause , The Searchers and Marjorie Morningstar began showing the widening of his acting style, observing Tibbetts. His former "childish humanity" is now combined with "the real disquiet that characterizes youth in the 1950s." After Wood appeared at the box office flop All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), he lost momentum. Career Wood is in transition, after which consists of a role as a child or as a teenager.
Splendor on Grass
Biographer Suzanne Finstad notes that the "turning point" of her life as an actress occurred when she saw the movie A Streetcar Named Desire (1951): "She changed, impressed by director Elia Kazan and Vivien Leigh's performance... [ who is] a role model for Natalie. "" Her role increases the likelihood that a person's sensitivity can mark someone as a victim type, "Tibbetts said.
After "a series of bad films, her career has declined", notes Rathgeb. Then he was cast in Kazan Splendor in the Grass (1961) in front of Warren Beatty. Kazan wrote in his 1997 memoir that the "saints" of the film community stated that he was "washed" as an actress, but he still wanted to interview him for the next film:
When I saw her, I detected behind the polite young wife in front of her desperate eyes in her eyes... I talked to her more calmly and more personally. I want to find out what human material is there, what is his inner life... Then he tells me that he is experiencing psychoanalysis. It worked. R.J. poor, I told myself. I love Bob Wagner, I still do it.
Kazan threw Wood as the female lead in Splendor in the Grass, and his career rebounded. He feels that regardless of his previous innocent role, he has the talent and maturity to surpass them. In the film, Warren Beatty's character is deprived of sexual love with Wood's character, and as a result turns into another, "more lax" girl. Character Wood can not handle sexuality and after failure to commit to mental institutions. Kazan writes that he was instrumental in the role in part because he saw in Wood's personality a "true blue quality with a mischievous side suppressed by social pressure," adding that "he clings to things with his eyes," the quality he found especially "interesting."
Finstad felt that although Wood had never practiced the Method technique, "working with Kazan brought him to the greatest emotional level of his career." The experience was exhilarating, but heartbreaking to Natalie, who faced his demon in Splendor. "He added that the scenes in the film, as a result of "Kazan magic... produces a hysteria in Natalie that may be her strongest moment as an actress." Actor Gary Lockwood, who also acts in the film, feels that "Kazan and Natalie are marvelous marriages, because you have a beautiful girl this, and you have someone who can get things out of him. " Kazan's favorite scene in the movie is the last one, when Wood returns to see his first lost love, Bud (Beatty). "It really touched me, I still like it when I see it," Kazan wrote.
For his performances at Splendor in the Grass, Wood received a nomination for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in the Main Role.
West Side Story
In 1961, Wood played Mary in Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise musical West Side Story, which was a huge box office and a critical success. Tibbetts noted the similarities in his role in this film and which was previously Rebel Without a Cause. Here, he plays the role of an uneasy Puerto Rican girl on the West Side of Manhattan. He would represent "the jitters of American youth in the 1950s," expressed by youth gangs and juvenile delinquency, along with early rock and roll. Both films, he observes, are "modern allegories based on the theme of 'Romeo and Juliet', including personal anxiety and public alienation where in Rebel he fell in love with the character played by James Dean, who friends like gangs and fierce temperament kept him away from his family, on the West Side Story he entered into a romance with a member of a white ethnic gang and his threatened world of lawyers, alienated from their families and laws.
Although the singing section was sung by Marni Nixon, West Side Story is still considered one of Wood's finest films. Wood sings when he starred in the 1962 movie Gypsy . He co-starred in the slapstick comedy The Great Race (1965), with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Peter Falk. His ability to speak Russian is an asset given to his character Maggie DuBois. It justifies the character who recorded the progress of the race in Siberia, and entered the race early as a contestant. In 1964, Wood received her third Academy Award nomination for Love with the Proper Stranger, making Wood the second actress to win three Oscar nominations at 25, joining Teresa Wright.
Although many of Wood's films are commercially profitable, his acting is sometimes criticized. In 1966, Wood was given The Harvard Lampoon The Worst Actress Award of the Year. He was the first player in award history to receive it directly, and Harvard Crimson wrote that he is "pretty good sport".
Director of Sydney Pollack was quoted as saying about Wood, "When he's right for that part, there's nothing better, he's a very good actress." Other famous films starring Wood are Inside Daisy Clover (1965) and Property Is Is Condemned (1966), both starring Robert Redford and bringing Wood Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. In both films, which were made during the Great Depression, Wood played a small town teenager with a big dream. After the movie was released, Wood suffered emotionally and sought professional therapy. During this time, he rejected the role of Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) because he did not want to be separated from his analyst.
After three years of acting, Wood starred with Elliott Gould on hit Bob & amp; Carol & amp; Ted & amp; Alice (1969), a comedy about sexual liberation. According to Tibbets, this is the first film in which "the rescue humor release was brought to bear with the many painful dilemmas depicted in the adult film."
Semi-retired
After becoming pregnant in 1970 with her first child, Natasha Gregson, Wood went into semi-retirement. He acted only in four theatrical films for the rest of his life. He made a brief cameo appearance like himself in The Candidate (1972), uniting it for the third time with Robert Redford.
Later career
She was reunited on screen with Robert Wagner in the television movie of the week The Affair (1973), and with Laurence Olivier and Wagner's husband in the adaptation of Cats on the Tin Roof Hot (1976) for the British series Laurence Olivier Presents broadcast as special by NBC. He made cameo appearances in the prime detective series Wagner Switch in 1978 as "Bubble Bath Girl," and Hart Hart Hart in 1979 as "Movie Star".
The role of the film rejected by Wood during his career absence goes to Ali MacGraw at Goodbye, Columbus ; Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby ; and Faye Dunaway at The Towering Inferno . Later, Wood chose to star in the Meteor (1979) disaster movie with Sean Connery, and the sex comedies The Last Married Married in America (1980), which failed on the bestselling Film. His appearance on the last one was praised and considered reminiscent of his appearance at Bob & amp; Carol & amp; Ted & amp; Alice . In the Last Couple Married, Wood broke: Although an actress with a clean middle-class image, she used the word "F" in a marriage discussion with her husband (George Segal).
In this period, Wood was more successful on television, receiving high ratings and critical acclaim in 1979 for The Cracker Factory and especially the miniseries film Here to Eternity with Kim Basinger and William Devane. Wood's appearance in the latter earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1980. Later that year, he starred in The Memory of Eva Ryker, which proved to be his last production.
At the time of his death, Wood was filming the science fiction movie Brainstorm (1983), starring Christopher Walken and directed by Douglas Trumbull. He is also scheduled to star in the production of theater Anastasia with Wendy Hiller and in a movie titled Country of the Heart playing a severely ill writer who has an affair with teenagers, to be played by Timothy Hutton. Due to his death, both final projects were canceled. End of Brainstorm must be rewritten. Stand-ins and sound-alikes were used to replace Wood for some of his critical scenes. The film was released posthumously on September 30, 1983, and is dedicated to it in closing credits.
Wood appeared in 56 movies for cinema and television. After his death, Time magazine noted that although critical acclaim for Wood has been rare throughout his career, "he always works".
Personal life
Wood has two weddings published to actor Robert Wagner. Wood says that he's been liking Wagner since he was a kid, and on his 18th birthday he goes to a studio set date with 26-year-old actor. They were married a year later on December 28, 1957; it was the unity that his mother opposed.
In an article in February 2009, Wagner recalls their early romance:
I saw Natalie around town but she never seemed interested. He made Rebel Without a Cause and mingled with James Dean; I am with an older person. The first time I remember actually talking to her was at the fashion show in 1956. She was beautiful, but still gave no hint about her crazy crush on me. I later learned that he had signed a contract with my agent just because he was my agent. A month later, I invited Natalie to the premiere of what turned out to be her 18th birthday. At dinner we both felt different things. I sent him flowers and the date went on. I remember instantly falling in love with her. One night aboard a small ship I had, he stared at me with love, his dark brown eyes illuminated by the table lantern. It changed my life.
Wood and Wagner were separated in June 1961 and were divorced in April 1962.
On May 30, 1969, Wood married British producer Richard Gregson. The couple had been dating for two and a half years before their marriage, while Gregson waited for his divorce to be settled. In 1970 they had a daughter, Natasha. They separated in August 1971 after Wood overheard an inappropriate telephone conversation between his secretary and Gregson. The split marks the short estrangement between Wood and his family, when Maria's mother and older sister Lana tell her to make peace with Gregson for her newborn daughter. He filed for divorce, and it was settled in April 1972.
In early 1972, Wood continued his relationship with Wagner. The couple remarried on July 16, 1972, five months after reconciliation and three months after he divorced Gregson. Their daughter, Courtney Wagner, was born in 1974.
Wood's sister, Lana Wood, recalled this period:
Her marriage is considered one of the best in Hollywood, and there is no question that she is a loving, loving mother - even a worshiper and stepmother. He and R. J. started with love and built it from there. They have overcome their respective problems and have achieved accommodation with time and time change brings. Like other people who have settled in making long marriage work, they are much more determined than most people to make it work...
They remained married until Wood's death seven years later on November 29, 1981, at the age of 43 years.
Natalie Wood has a brief relationship with Elvis Presley.
Death
During the filming of Brainstorm, Wood sank on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island aboard the Splendor . Many of the circumstances surrounding the drowning are unknown; it was never determined how he got into the water. She was with her husband, Robert Wagner, Brainstorm and co-star Christopher Walken and Dennis Davern's captain Splendor Dennis Davern on the night of November 28, 1981. The body Wood was discovered by authorities at 8:00 am on November 29, a mile away from the ship, with a small rubber boat, named Valiant, found stranded nearby. According to Wagner, when he went to sleep, Wood was not there. The autopsy report reveals that Wood bruises on his body and arms as well as abrasions on his left cheek.
Then, in his memoir of My Heart Piece, Wagner admits that he had a fight with Wood before he disappeared. Autopsy results found that Wood's blood alcohol content was 0.14%, and there were traces of two types of drugs in his bloodstream: motion sickness pills and painkillers, both increasing the effects of alcohol. After his investigation, Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi decided his death by drowning and hypothermia. According to Noguchi, Wood has been drinking and he may have slipped while trying to get back on the boat.
Wood is buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. A number of international media representatives, photographers and community members tried to attend his funeral; However, all must remain outside the funeral wall. Among the celebrity participants were Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Gene Kelly, Elia Kazan and Laurence Olivier. Olivier flew in from London to attend a service.
After a 30-year hiatus, the case reopened in November 2011 after Dennis Davern publicly declared that he had lied to police during an initial investigation and that Wood and Wagner had a fight that night. He alleges that Wood has been playing with Walken, that Wagner is jealous and angry, and that Wagner is responsible for Wood's death. Walken hired a lawyer and cooperated with the investigation, and was not considered a suspect by the authorities. Wagner has denied any involvement in Wood's death, but was named the person interested in the investigation in February 2018.
In 2012, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Chief Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran changed Wood's death certificate and changed the cause of his death from drowning accidentally into "drowning and other undefined factors." The modified document includes a statement that the circumstances of how Wood ended up in "unclearly established" water. The coroner's office has been instructed by the detective not to discuss or comment on the case. On January 14, 2013, the Los Angeles County coroner's office offered a 10-page addendum for Wood's autopsy report. The addendum states that he may have detained some bruises on his body before he got into the water and drowned but that can not be definitively defined. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter speculates that Wood is very vulnerable to bruising because of the synthroid drug, which he has taken.
Douglas Trumbull, director of Brainstorm, stopped directing the film after Wood's death in 1981. In 2013, he explained that the uncertain circumstances surrounding his death were the main reason for this decision. Since then he has returned to filmmaking.
Tributes
Some of the songs written about or mentioned Wood include "Natalie Wood" (1980, written by Jay Alanski, cover by Jil Caplan), "Natalie Song" (David Pack), "Eyes Like Natalie Wood" (Kathy Fleischmann), and " I Want to Be Loved Like That "(Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin, and Bill LaBounty, performed by Shenandoah).
In 1999, Julian Daze and Photon Karma recorded "Natalie Wood", written by singer-songwriter Brian Bell, and released on Stories of Old album.
In 2002, The Handsome Family wrote the song "Natalie Wood," later released on their Twilight album.
In 2015, the band TV Girl released a song titled "Natalie Wood".
In 2015, the smell of perfume eau de released with the name "Natalie", and it displays gardenia, which is his favorite scent.
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