Natalie wood autobiography
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Natalie Wood
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Who Was Natalie Wood?
Actress Natalie Wood shot to stardom at 16 when she co-starred with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (). In , she played Maria in West Side Story and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Splendor in the Grass. In , Wood drowned during a boating trip with husband Robert Wagner and Brainstorm () co-star Christopher Walken. The circumstances of her death remain controversial.
Early Life and Career
The daughter of Russian immigrants, Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, , in San Francisco, California, and started performing an early age. Her mother, Maria, enrolled her ballet classes as a small child. At the age of 4, Wood landed her first film role, a bit part in Happy Land (), which happened to be filming in Santa Rosa, California, where she was living at the time. She had won over director Irving Pichel after her mother orchestrated their introduction. Later, Wood said that her
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Natalie Wood: A Life
America watched Natalie Wood grow up on the silver screen. You can still see her childhood in Miracle on 34th Street and her adolescence in Rebel Without a Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story and countless other timeless movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her cinematic debut in in Tomorrow Is Forever to her shocking, untimely death in , the decades of her life are punctuated by movies that even today, reside in the hearts and imagination of the American people.
Acclaimed novelist, biographer, critic, and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she starred in the movie adaptation of his novel Inside Daisy Clover, recounts her extraordinary story. He relays to us details about her personal life, from her love affairs to her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children to her friendships, her struggles as an actress to her tragic and mysterious d
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Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood
Born in San Francisco to Russian immigrant parents, Wood also spoke Russian and was proud of her heritage. She was pushed as a toddler, by her mother, into films.
At nine she was named the 'most exciting juvenile motion picture star of the year'. Three years on, she was judged Child Star of the Year by the Children's Day National Council of New York.
Successfully transitioning from child star to ingenue at sixteen, she co-starred with James Dean and Sal Mineo in 'Rebel Without a Cause', (). For this Natalie was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.
In , Wood played Maria in the musical 'West Side Story', a major box office and critical success. That same year s