Posted on 05/10/2020 5:31:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
An old mystery has resurfaced by the presentation on May 4, 2020 of the life and death of the actress Natalie Wood in a documentary produced by her daughter.
Some of the facts of Wood's end are known and undisputed. On the night of her death, November 28–29, 1981, her body was found floating in the shallow surf, dressed in flannel nightgown, jacket, and wool socks, with superficial bruises on her body. She was found about a mile away from where she had spent the evening in her yacht, The Splendor, off Catalina Island outside Los Angeles, together with three others. One was her husband, actor Robert Wagner, then 51 years old, to whom she was married twice, 1957–62 and 1972–81. The others were actor Christopher Walken, a younger man born in 1943, with whom she was co-starring in a film, Brainstorm, completed after her death with a stand-in playing her role, and the young captain of the yacht, a man named Dennis Davern. The ongoing mystery is whether her death was an accident or a murder.
Wood had a short but vibrant life, successful professionally but personally disordered, with allegations of affairs including with Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. If that life was not as messy as that of Judy Garland, who died at roughly the same age in her 40s, it included apparent suicide attempts, heavy drinking, and her eventual relegation to B movies. Besides her glamorous lifestyle, Wood was also admired off-screen, regarded as being ahead of her time, fighting for equal pay for women and rights for the LGBT community. She supported and helped finance the play The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley, the groundbreaking portrayal of gay life, and helped Robert Redford start his film career.
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Hollywood just as perverse and corrupt then as it is now. Have always suspected Wagner.
Is there any other way for a girl to make it in Hollywood?
This documentary seems like a somewhat morbid topic for Natalie’s daughter to put together.
Maybe it was therapeutic for her. So she can finally let go of that loss. Losing a parent you care about is never easy.
Much harder when that parent was famous.
I remember the jokes from the time.
What’s the only kind of wood that can’t float? Natalie Wood.
Mystery? What kind of wood doesn’t float? Natalie Wood...
Wagner did her. It’s always the husband.
Natalie did not take a shower on the yacht because she wanted to wash up on shore. Joke from back then.
What does that even mean?? The author of this story is an idiot.
This comes up about every 5 years or so.
I really do think it was an accident.
BTW, her and her Sister were really lookers.
She was wonderful in a weird teen cult movie from the 1950s, Rebel Without a Cause, which me and my brothers must have watched 50 times. Her other two misfit friends were played by James Dean and Sal Mineo. All three died weird, violent deaths while still young - Natalie Wood by this “drowning”, James Dean when he wrapped his Porsche around a tree, and Sal Mineo when he was stabbed to death after a gay encounter.
I liked the movie, I like Christopher Walken and I loved anything with Natalie Wood in it, but She wasn’t a Christopher Walken movie wife, in a movie that he fit into better than her.
Murder? what would be the motive?
Thanks, yes I did. Lana may have been even prettier than Natalie.
I think she was murdered by Mr. Whocares.
But it has to be murder. I mean a Hollywood celeb getting hopped up on booze and barbiturates and having a mishap? Who ever heard of such a thing?
What did Robert Wagner say to Natalie Wood the night she died?
“Okay honey, you can have a drink, but don’t go overboard!”
The butler did it.
https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-incident-and-vs-accident/
surprised me but there are people who think about it.
Dingy girl?
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