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.
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.
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?
BAC 0.14% plus drugs = slightly intoxicated?
There is no “mystery death” of Natalie Wood. The woman was roaring drunk. She, Wagner and Walken were all roaring drunk and, like drunks do, they were arguing fiercely much of the evening. Eventually they went back aboard the Splendor where the argument continued until they all were so drunk they were near passing out. The two men and the yacht’s pilot went to bed. Natalie dressed for bed but decided in her angry drunk state to go ashore. She tried to get into the dinghy tied up alongside, slipped and fell into the water. Weighed down by her clothes and jacket, and unable to swim, she drowned. End of story.
She was gorgeous.
This whole event is water under the bridge now.
I’ve always felt Wagner was jealous of Wood and that maybe he pushed her into the water after Walkin went to sleep, probably drunk. Wagner was also probably drunk and in his anger pushed her and she fell into the sea, and as afraid as she was in water, quickly lost her battle to the sea.
“...fighting for equal pay for women and rights for the LGBT community.”
Dropped a notch or two in my book.
You want mystery? Where's Jimmy Hoffa? Who did him? Is he really underneath the pavement at the 600 mile marker in Jersey?
The Searchers trivia:
Natalie Wood was still a student in high school when this film was being made, and on several occasions both John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter had to pick her up at school on days when she was required on the set. This caused a good deal of excitement among Wood’s female classmates.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049730/trivia