Natalie Wood
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). 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. 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.
Wood died off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43, during a holiday break from the production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, 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.
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Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). 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. 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.
Wood died off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43, during a holiday break from the production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, 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.
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Tab Hunter Confidential
Too Young to Die
Brunes et Blondes
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Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Los Angeles Plays Itself
The Celluloid Closet
Rediscovering a Rebel
Intimate Portrait
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Brainstorm
Hollywood’s Children
Willie and Phil
The Memory of Eva Ryker
The Last Married Couple in America
Meteor
Hart to Hart
Hart to Hart
The Cracker Factory
From Here to Eternity
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Peeper
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Switch
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
James Dean Remembered
The Affair
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Candidate
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Dick Cavett Show
Penelope
This Property Is Condemned
Inside Daisy Clover
The Great Race
Sex and the Single Girl
Hollywood and the Stars
Love with the Proper Stranger
Gypsy
West Side Story
The Mike Douglas Show
Splendor in the Grass
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Cash McCall
Kings Go Forth
Marjorie Morningstar
Bombers B-52
The James Dean Story
The Girl He Left Behind
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
The Burning Hills
A Cry in the Night
The Searchers
Rebel Without a Cause
One Desire
The Silver Chalice
Studio 57
Mayor of the Town
The Oscars
General Electric Theater
The Star
Just for You
The Rose Bowl Story
The Blue Veil
Dear Brat
The Jackpot
The Jack Benny Program
Never a Dull Moment
Our Very Own
No Sad Songs for Me
The Bob Hope Show
What's My Line?
Father Was a Fullback
The Green Promise
Chicken Every Sunday
Studio One
The Ed Sullivan Show
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Driftwood
Miracle on 34th Street
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Bride Wore Boots
Tomorrow Is Forever
Happy Land
The Moon Is Down