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Robert Wagner mulled killing Warren Beatty due to Natalie Wood
Reuters ^ | 9/25/08 | Christian Wiessner

Posted on 09/25/2008 11:43:33 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Robert Wagner says he was so distraught over the break-up of his first marriage to actress Natalie Wood that he pondered suicide and would sit with a gun outside the home of her lover, Warren Beatty, intent on killing him.

"Pieces of My Heart," Wagner's autobiography released this week, reveals details of his career and life, including the split with Wood, their decision to remarry a decade later and her drowning death in 1981.

"I was pretty young, and I don't think I could have ever gone through with that act, but I was pretty frustrated and upset," Wagner, 78, told Reuters in an interview.

Beatty, who met Wood on the set of "Splendor in the Grass," in 1961 "was pretty smooth, very attractive. He was the man," Wagner said.

Wagner's family moved to Los Angeles in the late 1930s and he ran in Hollywood circles as a child. Fred Astaire would pick him up at school because Wagner was friendly with the legendary dancer's stepson. He caddied for Clark Gable and dated the daughter of actress Gloria Swanson.

Over time, Wagner was put under contract at 20th Century Fox. When Barbara Stanwyck, then 45, and Wagner, 22, met on the set of "Titanic," they began a discreet, four-year relationship. Wagner said she was his first love.

"The greatest thing that she gave me was a sense of self esteem. That she thought the way she did about me and took the time with me meant everything in the world," Wagner said.

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KEYWORDS: barbarastanwyck; celebrities; celebrity; crime; generalchat; harttohart; hollyweird; hollywood; homicide; murder; nataliewood; popculture; robertwagner; warrenbeatty
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Ah, I may have my celebs mixed up. Not exactly Mr. Hollywood.

So maybe I don’t respect him.


21 posted on 09/25/2008 11:58:45 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Wish it was Palin/McCain)
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To: BurbankKarl

Nice skull...


22 posted on 09/25/2008 11:58:51 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Barbara Stanwyck, then 45, and Wagner, 22, met on the set of "Titanic," ...

The name of that movie was, "A Night to Remember."

"Titanic" was the Leonardo diCaprio effort.

23 posted on 09/25/2008 11:59:56 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: BurbankKarl
Put a photo a a young Merle Haggard next to a young Warren Beatty, and they look like brothers. Today, Merle looks like a walking corpse, while Warren is the poster child for botox.

As a side note, Splendor in the Grass was filmed in a pre-Verezzano Staten Island, although it took place in Kansas.

24 posted on 09/25/2008 12:00:42 PM PDT by Clemenza (PRIVATIZE FANNIE AND FREDDIE! NO MORE BAILOUTS!)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Hey, "If I never saw you again it would only be one less day a week than I see you now." Is frickin' brilliant!!!

And, "It takes real courage to be as old as you and have nothing." Equally brilliant!!

I refuse to have a word spoken against that movie!

25 posted on 09/25/2008 12:02:05 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
The way I heard the gossip was that it was Walken and Wagner going at it after Wood had gotten drunk and gone to bed. She woke up, walked in on them, and then tried to get off the boat. Still drunk, she fell, hit her head and drowned.

In a possibly related vein, Barbara Stanwyck was widely reputed to be a lesbian. Her marriage to Robert Taylor was a studio put-up job which he eventually got tired of and left her. She was never known to date again after that.

Not saying any of this is true, but that is the gossip.

26 posted on 09/25/2008 12:02:16 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Deb
At some time or other we all mull killing Warren Beatty.

Especially after this piece o crap

ISHTAR: World's second worst movie.

(Exorcist II: world's worst)

27 posted on 09/25/2008 12:02:52 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

This guy is the luckiest SOB on the face of the earth. Married to Natalie Wood AND THEN Jill St. John. Numbers 1 and 2 on Timy’s lust list.


28 posted on 09/25/2008 12:04:19 PM PDT by timydnuc (I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees.)
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To: Deb

Stop posting, we have a winner!


29 posted on 09/25/2008 12:06:12 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: BurbankKarl

Beatty’s Bulworth was an act of audience abuse.

His hip hop rendition of socialism while made up like a minstrel was jaw dropping.


30 posted on 09/25/2008 12:06:21 PM PDT by y6162 (uot)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Did he mull attacking him with ill-tempered sea bass?

31 posted on 09/25/2008 12:07:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: HIDEK6
The name of that movie was, "A Night to Remember."

"Titanic" was the Leonardo diCaprio effort.

Nope. "A Night to Remember" was a 1958 British production. "Titanic" was a 1953 US movie. There's also a German "Titanic" made by the Nazis. A bore (TMC runs it occasionally) but some of its special effects shots were used by ANTR.


32 posted on 09/25/2008 12:07:47 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Centurion2000

Have you seen “The Trial of Billy Jack?”

Ishtar is Citizen Cane and Exorcist II is Casablanca in comparison.

It’s that bad.


33 posted on 09/25/2008 12:08:15 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Clemenza; BurbankKarl
Put a photo a a young Merle Haggard next to a young Warren Beatty, and they look like brothers. Today, Merle looks like a walking corpse, while Warren is the poster child for botox.

A young Merle Haggard (left) and a young Warren Beatty (right)

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34 posted on 09/25/2008 12:08:28 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I stand corrected.


35 posted on 09/25/2008 12:08:53 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
What total garbage. You should really be ashamed. That's above the pay grade of a scumbag.

As Tony Curtis once said, "Stand on the corner of Hollywood and Vine long enough and someone will walk up and say 'Bubba Ho-Tep is a fag'."

36 posted on 09/25/2008 12:08:53 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: dfwgator
Natalie Wood
37 posted on 09/25/2008 12:09:27 PM PDT by y6162 (uot)
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To: y6162

She was a beautiful woman!


38 posted on 09/25/2008 12:10:46 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: y6162

Miss Zakharenko was definately a hottie.


39 posted on 09/25/2008 12:12:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Centurion2000

Cut it out! Geez, you got to see Isabelle Adjani’s boobs. What do you want?


40 posted on 09/25/2008 12:13:30 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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