Natalie Wood Interview (November 17, 1979)

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 8 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 Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969).
During the 1970s, Wood began a hiatus from film and had two daughters: one with her second husband Richard Gregson, and one with Robert Wagner, her first husband whom she married again after divorcing Gregson. She acted in only two feature films throughout the decade, but she appeared slightly more often in television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood's films represented a "coming of age" for her and for Hollywood films in general.[3] Critics have suggested that her cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few to take both child roles and those of middle-aged characters.[4][5]
On November 29, 1981, at the age of 43, Wood drowned in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Catalina Island during a break from production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983). She was with her husband Wagner and Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements,[6] prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under the instruction of the coroner's office, to list her cause of death as "drowning and other undetermined factors" in 2012.[1] In 2018, Wagner was named as a person of interest in the ongoing investigation into her death.[7]

[@jazminratzlaff5357]

One of the most intelligent articulate chic classy actresses of the screen, queen and beauty goddess Natalie Wood! What a youthful looking and sounding woman. And such a cute talented little girl as well. Passed way too young and so sadly, her two daughters Natasha and Courtney look exactly like their mom. Adore her 70’s look and outfit here. And her laugh is just the sweetest, their is such warmth to it.

[@kristenraejohnson]

She was so intelligent and beautiful! 🌹

[@idum01]

How do you know she's intelligent? Did you know her personally? The fact someone is able to speak doesn't mean he or she is intelligent!

[@SandraL-gh1pd]

@@idum01 Clown, Natalie Wood was had a high IQ, she owned her own production company when it was unheard of actresses or actors, she made her business decisions that made her money from her films, she stood up to Warner Bros executives, she took care of her mental health, etc,

[@trwent]

Natalie actually became even more lovely as she aged. When she tragically died at age 43, I thought that she was at the pinnacle of her beauty. ❤

[@samking4179]

Such a good interview. So thankful it was done. Two years before her death. So sad.

[@MariaFernanda-dr7pv]

The most beautiful woman in the planet❤❤❤

[@lskydrrn]

She was amazing!

[@user-ik3vd5sc9d]

Natalie married robert wagner two times. The first time in December 28, 1957 in Arizona until she kicked him out of the home she had purchased in 1961 autumn. The cause of their separation is she awoke in the middle of the night and he wasn't in their bed. She got up to look for him and walked into the living room to see him having oral sex with his British gay butler, David Cavendish. Their divorce was finalized in the spring, 1962. They married others, both had daughters and divorced. Wagner married Marian Marshall and had Katie and Natalie married Richard Gregson, from 1969 through 1972 and had Natasha Gregson. The reason for Natalie's divorce was she learned Gregson was having an affair with his secretary. Unlike her divorce from wagner, his affair was with a female. She ran into Wagner in 1972 after which, she married Wagner a second time. Lana, her sister, asked, "After knowing of his affair with his male butler, how can you marry him a second time?" Natalie responded, "Sometimes it's better to be with the devil you know, than with others you don't know." Before marrying him in 1972, she paid off his bills so he would be debt free and purchased their homes, one in Palm Springs, CA and the second on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills, CA where they lived until her drowing death over Thanksgiving weekend, November 28, 1981. I had a friend, John Daly, who owned Hemdale Productions, who told me he and the people he knew, in the film industry, believed as I do, that Natalie was murdered near midnight on November 28, 1981. Natalie had purchased a family grave plot for her and her family at Westwood Memorial Cemetery in Los Angeles. After her funeral and burial on December 3, 1981, Wagner sold the other graves in the family plot and bought another in Aspen, Colorado, where he lives with his current wife, Jill Oppenheimer St John. On Valentines Day, 1982, just over two months from Natalie's funeral, Wagner took St John to La Scala restaurant in Beverly Hills, which happened to have been Natalie's favorite restaurant. Don't you find that to be weird? Dr Oz proves (in the video below) Natalie was beaten to unconsciousness, with more than 18 bruises, by the last person to be with her, put on her a red parka over only her nightgown and wool socks and dragged her by her ankles to the swim step and rolled her into the freezing dark sea. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJmVhnyOp8aLpNksi=7UWyH_uzUJEgOBLm

[@joycegibbs5267]

urm, I'm reading a biography and a lot of what Natalia is saying doesn't seem to be true but she's one of my favourites, no matter what stories come out and god, was she an amazing actress and beauty. So tragic she passed so young !!

[@ravenel2]

And why would you believe a biographer over the actual person? No one can write a true biography of another person’s life; they can only research what is known to the world and conduct limited interviews of others.

[@user-ik3vd5sc9d]

Two years before she was murdered.

[@DarjaTruth]

Natalija i'm sending you home, into the bright white light 🤍💭🗯

[@DeniseLopez-gt9wg]

First James dean killed in a car crash,then Sal Mineo murdered and Natalie Wood also murdered that is so damn creepy

[@PinkSunglasses50]

Stage Mother From Hell Is Natalie's Mom