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BUMPED INTO BEATTY AT PARTIES: 7/18/61 Hollywood Reporter; 7/25 Hollywood Reporter
BEATTY’S ROMANCE WITH COLLINS COOLING, AMUSED HER: Joan Collins to SF
BEATTY WHAT DR. ORDERED: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
ANALYST DIED: 10/79 After Dark; Leonard Rosenman to SF; 6/69 Screen Parade
FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT: Natalie Wood Wagner vs. Robert J. Wagner, Jr., No. WED 3437, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, 4/16/62; Steve Biegenzahn to SF, 1/8/99; Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 8/17/61; 8/24/61 Hollywood Reporter
R.J. TO EUROPE; ANALYSIS; LIFE IN TAILSPIN: 10/6/86 People; 6/62 Photoplay; 10/9/77 Los Angeles Times Home Magazine; “Robert Wagner: From ‘Heart’ In 1952 to ‘Hart’ in 1980,” Ken Ferguson, Photoplay, August 1980 (RJ therapy for 6 years); 11/85 Parade
COLLINS AND WAGNER FRIENDS: Joan Collins to SF; 2/62 Motion Picture; 1/30/62 Los Angeles Times
GOSSIP ABOUT NATALIE AND BEATTY: numerous magazines, columns, etc.
NATALIE SUICIDAL: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
GOSSIPS BLAMED MANSION FOR BREAKUP: See such as “Natalie and Bob: What Happened to Their Togetherness?” Mike Connolly, Screen Stories, October 1961, et al.
NATALIE AS SCARLET WOMAN WITH BEATTY: e.g., three-part series, “The Loves of Natalie,” “The Star’s Search for True Happiness,” and “Running, Running, Running,” Jean Bosquet, Los Angeles Examiner, 11/12/61, 11/19/61, and 11/26/61
BEATTY WASN’T THE CAUSE: Mart Crowley, A&E Biography of Robert Wagner, 7/5/99
HASN’T FOUND HAPPINESS: 11/21/61 Los Angeles Examiner; 2/62 Motion Picture
SAME PARIS CINEMA: “The Body Meets the Face,” Hollywood Reporter’s 48th Annual, November 1978
COVETED GYPSY 18 MONTHS: 8/9/60 letter from Jule Styne to Trilling, Warners Special Collection, USC (Natalie’s lobbying for part); 11/9/60 Louella Parsons column mentions Natalie as Gypsy
RUSSELL PLAYED MUD; USED CHILD STAR: Lana Wood to SF
MARIE RAVED AGAINST GYPSY: Robert Hyatt to SF; 1/12/62 Hollywood Reporter
3 UNFLATTERING PROFILES: 4/7/62 Saturday Evening Post; 3/62 Show; 2/26/62 Newsweek
CRUSHED BY NEWSWEEK: Henry Silva to SF, 12/16/99
BRITTANY COMMENTS: Morgan Brittany to SF, 8/19/99
ORRY-KELLY AND STRADLING’S TRICKS: “Natalie Wood: How Tricks of the Trade Made Her Sexy,” Lloyd Shearer, Parade, 12/9/62
JILLIAN COMMENTS: Ann Jillian to SF, 10/1/99
MALDEN COMMENTS: Karl Malden to SF
PHOTOGRAPHER FOLLOWED: Natalie Wood, Donahue, December 1976
FLYING JARS OF COLD CREAM: 11/68 Cosmopolitan
TUMULTUOUS WITH BEATTY: Lana Wood, “The Final Days”
FALSE REPORT NATALIE IN RUSSIA: “Warren Beatty, Seriously,” Aaron Lathan, Rolling Stone, 4/1/82
ENCOUNTER IN ROME: 8/75 Cosmopolitan; 7/71 Pageant; 12/62 Photoplay; 1/63 Photoplay
CONFUSED ABOUT MARRIAGE: “Brash and Rumpled Star,” Joseph Laitin, Saturday Evening Post, July 1962
PARTY WITH MONROE: 11/68 Cosmopolitan; 6/69 Screen Parade; 6/69 Movie World; Shirley Mann to SF
THOMPSON COMPARED HER TO MONROE: 4/79 Look
REJECTED CHARADE: 4/64 Screen Stories
LOVED ANGIE; MORAL CODE; STAYED FRIENDS WITH BEATTY: Lana Wood to SF
ROLE TRUTHFUL, MET WITH SCHULMAN: 7/80 Biarritz; “Her Family Came Before Her Career,” Barbara Glesone, Orange County Register, 12/2/81
BROKEN UP WITH BEATTY BEFORE: Tom Bosley to SF, 8/4/99; 12/12/62 Daily Variety (report of breakup); Hedda Hopper column, 12/16/62; 10/26/76 San Francisco Times
BOSLEY COMMENTS: Tom Bosley to SF, 8/4/99
EDIE ADAMS COMMENTS: Edie Adams to SF, 7/21/99
MOST REWARDING; GOOD TOGETHER: 10/26/76 San Francisco Times; “Natalie Wood Makes It As an Actress,” Bruce Bahrenburg, Newark Sunday News, 6/15/69
NEILE ADAMS COMMENTS: Neile Adams to SF, 8/18/99
IN LOVE WITH MCQUEEN: William Claxton to SF
A BEAST: Sugar Bates to SF
COULDN’T STOP CRYING: “Hollywood Party,” Murray Schumach, New York Times, 2/2/64
GOT DEPRESSED; QUESTION MARK IN FRAME: Shirley Mann to SF
SAW LOEW AT MAY PARTY: 4/64 Screen Stories
LOEW RESCUED DAMSELS: Janet Leigh to SF; Debbie Reynolds to SF (friend to us); Regina Loew to SF
LAUGHED WITH LOEW: Edd Byrnes to SF, 10/15/99; Robert Jiras to SF
MARRIAGE RUMORS; SABLE COAT: 10/16/63 Hollywood Reporter; 1/64 Photoplay; 11/63 Motion Picture
$200, 000; NATALIE OWED A PICTURE, QUINE NEEDED MONEY: Joseph Heller to SF, 9/21/99
CONTRACT DEMANDS: Contracts, Warner Brothers Special Collection, USC; David Niven, Jr., to SF, 9/30/99 (2nd to Taylor)
DAYS OFF FOR PERIOD: Sugar Bates to SF; Phil Ball to SF, 9/24/99
PANIC WITHOUT ENTOURAGE: “Natalie Wood: Hollywood’s Child,” for Hollywood and the Stars, produced by David L. Wolper
CURTIS COMMENTS: Tony Curtis to SF, 6/2/99
HELL FLYING ALONE; GIFT FOR COMEDY; INTERIM MEN; DAVID LANGE: Robert Jiras to SF
PHONED MUD IN MORNING: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
PHONED OR SAW LINDON AT NOON: various sources
MOORE’S COMMENTS: Shirley Mann to SF
FAHD HEARTBREAKING: Robert Hyatt to SF
PREFERRED DRAMA: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
FLIPPED OUT: William Claxton to SF
SAW R.J. AT LA SCALA; DESPERATE FOR BABY: Lana Wood to SF; 8/75 Cosmopolitan
MARION A PAYBACK; “FRIENDS”: “The Robert Wagners Split!” Rona Barrett’s Hollywood, September 1970; Katie Wagner, A&E biography of Robert Wagner
MOST BEAUTIFUL: “Black and White Ball,” Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair, July 1997
PROMISED DAISY: Contracts and correspondence, Warners Special Collections, USC; Tony Curtis to SF
PURSUED THEM RELENTLESSLY: Robert Mulligan, AMC’s Hollywood Real to Reel
ESTRANGED FROM CURTIS: Janet Leigh to SF; Martin and Erin Jurow to SF, 9/19/99
JUROW COMMENTS: Martin and Erin Jurow to SF, 9/19/99
EDWARDS WORSHIPPED SLAPSTICK: Arthur Ross to SF, 9/10/99
PARTY ATMOSPHERE, PREFER CLOSED SET: 12/28/69 London Times
NOT A THRILL: Lana Wood to SF
BIRTHDAYS DEPRESSING: 8/75 Cosmopolitan
STAND-IN DIDN’T SEE TORMENT: Roselle Gordon to SF, 7/19/99
A LOT OF FUN: Phil Ball to SF; Jack Cunningham to SF, 10/3/99
PLANS WITH COURTENAY: 11/27/64 Daily Variety
SUICIDE ATTEMPT: Correspondence and memos, Warners Special Collection, The Great Race file (sick days); “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; Robert Jiras to SF; 11/30/64 Hollywood Reporter (Cedars as Natasha Gurdin); Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood” (“deep and complicated”); Olga Viripaeff to SF; David Niven, Jr., to SF; 4/65 Modern Screen (upset about Hawaii) [note: Walter Mirisch to SF: not aware she was upset]
BITTER: 4/27/86 London Times
ALONE AND EMPTY: 8/79 McCall’s
ANALYST TALKED HER INTO LIVING: 8/75 Cosmopolitan
CHAPTER 20
LEFT U.S. AGAINST ADVICE; CRAZED YUGOSLAVIAN: David Niven, Jr., to SF, 9/30/99
NIVEN JR. COMMENTS: David Niven, Jr., to SF
BACK TO BABYLAND: 4/65 Motion Picture
NIGHTCLUB ACT: Tom Mankiewicz, E True Hollywood Story
BYRNES’ COMMENTS: Edd Byrnes to SF
REACTION ON ONE OTHER THING: “Hollywood’s Child” documentary
FELT CLOSE TO DAISY: Natalie Wood at San Francisco Film Festival, 10/26/76
IDENTIFIED WITH DAISY: Gavin Lambert, American Cinematheque Tribute to Natalie Wood, September 1999
NATALIE APPROVED RUTH GORDON: 7/24/69 Daily Variety
REDFORD COMMENTS: Robert Redford to SF
REALLY CREATED A CHARACTER; ENJOYS ACTING ITSELF: 5/1/70 & 12/28/69 London Times
DISAPPOINTED BY VOICE-OVER: Peggy Griffin to SF, 12/9/99; 10/26/76 San Francisco Times
UPSET AT HALF-SONG: 12/28/69 London Times
CLOSEST TO BLANCHE: Rex Reed interview with Natalie Wood, New York Times, 1/16/66
HUSTON AND LEIGH ATTACHED: Hollywood Reporter, 10/2/64, 10/7/64
POLLACK COMMENTS: Sydney Pollack to SF, 2/22/99
SPIES: Shirley Mann to SF
NO IDEA WHY WEDDING CANCELED: Marion Blatnik Picciotto to SF, 10/7/99
BETTER LONG ENGAGEMENT: 11/30/65 Daily Variety
DAISY A FAILURE: 3/25/66 Life
COSTELLO COMMENTS: Anthony Costello to SF, 4/27/99
NORMA A MOTHER FIGURE: Scott Marlowe to SF
MONKEYS OFF BACK: 10/79 After Dark
BANNED MUD PER LINDON: Costello to SF
EARLY ASSIGNMENT WAS WORDSWORTH: 7/23/67 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
WENT TO EXTREMES: 5/2/66 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner; 11/68 Cosmopolitan; culture vulture: Joyce Haber
DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO BE: Natalie Wood 1980 excerpt, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
REALIZED SHE WANTED A FAMILY: 10/77 Los Angeles Times Home Magazine; 3/79 Saturday Evening Post; 8/79 McCall’s; “How I Did It!” Merrill Shindler, Los Angeles, March 1980
OLGA’S THE LUCKY ONE: Olga Viripaeff to SF
JAGLOM COMMENTS: Henry Jaglom to SF, June 1999
PENELOPE CONTRACT: Contracts, Warners Special Collection, USC
MUD ENCOURAGED HER TO MARRY SINATRA: Robert Hyatt to SF
RING-A-DING: Leslie Bricusse to SF, 8/25/99
GORTON COMMENTS: David Gorton to SF, 2/22/00
HILLER COMMENTS: Arthur Hiller to SF, 2/18/99
BEATTY SPOKE FONDLY: 11/68 Cosmopolitan; Stuart Whitman to SF, 9/25/99 (Natalie and Beatty were friends)
TURNED DOWN BONNIE BECAUSE OF ANALYST: 3/9/69 New York Times; 10/26/76 San Francisco Times; 8/75 Cosmopolitan; 10/13/74 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
HIVES: 4/79 Look
“WORST ACTRESS”: 4/21/66 Daily Variety; 12/28/69 London Times (wrote speech)
SUICIDE ATTEMPT; DIDN’T SEEM SUICIDAL: Lana Wood to SF
NEVER SAW HER DEPRESSED: Frank Sinatra, A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
FAHD NAMED HER FIRST: 2/11/79 New York Daily News
FIRED EVERYONE; SPENT NIGHT ALONE; FLEW ALONE TO NY: Tony Costello to SF; Lana Wood to SF; 4/79 Look; 8/75 Cosmopolitan; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; 7/71 Pageant
ACT FOUR
CHAPTER 21
ANGLOPHILE: Tony Costello to SF
CRUSH ON FINNEY; SOMEONE TO LOVE HER: Sugar Bates to SF
BRICUSSE COMMENTS: Leslie Bricusse to SF
COSTELLO COMMENTS: Tony Costello to SF
THAT WAS IT: “Natalie Wood - From Pampered Star,” Peer J. Oppenheimer, Family Weekly, 10/19/69
MADE A LIST; SOMETHING ABOUT R.J.: Lana Wood to SF
READY TO MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN: 2/67 Motion Picture; 11/9/66 Daily Variety; Olga Viripaeff to SF
STRONG MAN; FEAR OF FLYING: 7/71 Pageant
WORKED ON ROSE GARDEN: Sydney Pollack to SF; Tony Costello to SF
JUST LIVING: 10/30/69 New York Times
DRESSED LIKE A STAR FOR FLIGHTS: Diane Wells to SF, December 2000
NATALIE HIS FIRST BIG CHALLENGE: 8/72 Photoplay
BOTH HAVE TEMPERS: 7/71 Pageant
DIDN’T SEE WARMTH: David Niven, Jr., to SF
REDFORD COMMENTS: Robert Redford to SF
FAINTLY TRAGIC: 11/68 Cosmopolitan
LIKE BOB SCRIPT: 3/9/69 New York Times; 1/70 unsourced U.K. article from British Film Institute Natalie Wood collection; 9/69 Movie World
KNEW IN 10 SECONDS: Paul Mazursky, E True Hollywood Story
INSECURE; WOULDN’T DO NUDE: 10/30/69 Los Angeles Times; Lana Wood to SF
GOULD COMMENTS: Elliott Gould to SF, 10/16/99
HAPPY WITH GREGSON: Sugar Bates to SF
NO STAR CRAP: Mazursky, “The Final Days”
MOCKED STAR IMAGE: 3/9/69 New York Times
EMBARRASSED AS HELL: Natalie Wood, Tomorrow, 2/14/80
SCARED TO SKI: 10/30/69 Los Angeles Times
MAY WEDDINGS: Olga Viripaeff to SF
RADIATED HAPPINESS, DELAYED CHILDHOOD: 10/18/69 Family Weekly
FIRST TIME PREGNANT: Natalie Wood, excerpt, AMC’s Hollywood Real to Reel
JUNE ’70 DINNER PARTY: Linda Foreman to SF, 9/16/99; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; “Natalie Wood’s Real-Life Romantic Comedy,” Judy Klemesrud, New York Times, 2/10/80; “Happily Ever After,” Jon Land, Saturday Evening Post, March 1979; 12/76 People; 11/74 Photoplay; 3/86 GQ; 11/85 Parade; 12/76 Donahue; 8/75 Cosmopolitan; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
NATASHA’S BIRTH HAPPIEST MOMENT: 10/79 Orange Coast
ANOTHER CHANCE AT CHILDHOOD; UPSET AT MUD: Lana Wood to SF
NATASHINKA: Natalie Wood’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin
THOUGHTS ON MOTHERHOOD: 9/72 Modern Screen
AFFAIR WITH SECRETARY, RESTRAINING ORDER: Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Leslie Bricusse to SF; Lana Wood to SF; “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 4/79 Look; 11/71 Modern Screen; 11/71 Motion Picture; 8/75 Cosmopolitan; 11/71 Photoplay; Peggy Griffin to SF; Bob Jiras to SF
CHAPTER 22
ISOLATED SELF, TRANQUILIZERS: Lana Wood to SF; 8/17/71 Daily Variety; “Natalie Wood Tells,” Renee Haverhill, Photoplay, April 1972
UPSET, STOPPED EATING, SARDINIA, OLGA COMMENTS: Olga Viripaeff to SF; 4/72 Photoplay; Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood” 334, 336 CALL FROM R.J.; CALLS AGAIN: Natalie Wood, 12/76 Donahue; Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 8/11/71 Daily Variety (R.J. in town); “New Rules For A Second Marriage,” Vernon Scott, Photoplay, November 1974; 2/10/80 New York Times; 12/76 People; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; 11/85 Parade
TINA CRUSH ON R.J.: 9/70 Rona Barrett’s Hollywood
NOT WHEN; FRANCE: 10/19/71 Hollywood Reporter; 10/18/71 Hollywood Reporter (villa)
THOUGHT WORLD; SEPARATE DIRECTIONS; ZIFFREN FINANCES: Peggy Griffin to SF
DATED MCQUEEN: Peggy Griffin to SF; Neile Adams to SF; Dennis Roberts to SF (sunglasses); Lana Wood to SF; 10/29 & 12/27/71 Hollywood Reporter; “How Steve McQueen Ended Her Heartache,” Carol Welles, Photoplay, 2/72; “Ali Crushed,” June Thayer, Movie World, 4/73; “All About Those Dates Between Natalie Wood And Steve McQueen,” Movieland, 2/72
DATED JERRY BROWN: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; 2/72 Photoplay
SMEDLEY NOTICED: “How Bob Makes Natalie Feel Like a Bride Every Night,” Marcia Borie, Photoplay, 11/72
NATASHA PROTECTED HER; R.J. LIKE ROMEO: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
PERFECT LOVE: 4/72 Photoplay
NURSERY RHYMES: “A World of Her Own,” Tim de Lisle, Daily Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 12/12/98
FAVOR FOR REDFORD, LAST CONTACT: Robert Redford to SF
MINK AND JEANS, PLAYED LAST SCENE: Filming “The Candidate,” Bruce Bahrenburg, Warner Books Inc., New York, 1972
PLAINTIVE CALL: Edie Adams to SF
HOLIDAY PLANS: 12/28/71 & 1/4/72 Daily Variety
RECONNECTED AT CHRISTMAS: Peggy Griffin to SF; Lana Wood to SF; 11/74 Photoplay (stopped by with gifts; “instant attraction”); 8/72 Photoplay (R.J. felt nostalgic, Natalie like a girl again); 12/72 People (went on 1/26); “Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner’s Baby Girl,” Henry Gris, Photoplay, 6/74 (together from Palm Springs on); 3/86 GQ (secretly in Palm Springs); 8/75 Cosmopolitan (understanding they’d remarry)
BAILED R.J. OUT: 3/86 GQ
LANA WORRIED; DEVIL YOU KNOW; GOT WHAT WANTED: Lana Wood to SF; Robert Hyatt to SF; “My Sister, Natalie Wood,” Sally Ogle Davis, Ladies Home Journal, 11/82
R.J. NICE; NATALIE WENT OUT OF HER WAY: Sugar Bates to SF
TOWNHOUSE FOR GURDINS: “We’d Be Crazy Not to Remarry,” Lee Alexander, Silver Screen, 8/72
NEEDED BODYGUARDS: 4/14/72 Hollywood Reporter
ZEITENSPRUNG: 8/75 Cosmopolitan; Mickey Ziffren, The Movies, 10/83
R.J. SE
LDOM ON WATER, WANTED BACK; HUNTING “OUR BOAT”:9/27/81 San Antonio Light
WORST STORMS: “We Almost Died Together,” Polly Terry, Photoplay, 1/74; 4/24/72 New York Daily News (made headlines)
TOOK PHOTOGRAPHER ALONG: Michael Childers, “The Final Days”
NEITHER RELIGIOUS: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF (used astrologer Carroll Righter); “Pregnant Natalie Wood Cries,” Movie Life, 1/74 (used Righter)
WEDDING: 11/74 Photoplay; “Natalie Gives Us Her Wedding Album!” Marcia Borie, Silver Screen, October 1972; 10/72 Modern Screen; 11/72 Rona Barrett’s Hollywood
SEASICK: 1/76 TV Radio Mirror; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
GRIFFIN COMMENTS: Peggy Griffin to SF
TOUGH FOR NATALIE: Lana Wood to SF
RETREAT FROM GATSBY: Natalie Wood, 10/76 San Francisco Film Festival; 6/74 Photoplay
TV LESS PRESTIGE: 11/78 Hollywood Reporter
CATES COMMENTS: Gilbert Cates to SF, 12/22/99
LETTER FROM NATALIE TO RUTH GORDON: courtesy of Barry Redmond
GLASS HOUSE, KNIT BLANKET: 1/74 Photoplay
INTRIGUED WITH IDEA: 6/20/74 Daily Variety
MOST WANTED BABY: 8/74 Modern Screen
CRANE’S DEATH: Scott Marlowe to SF
SCARED DURING CHILDBIRTH: “Natalie Wood: Save My Baby,” Motion Picture, 7/74
INFERNO BORING; CONVINCED R.J. TO MOVE; LOST 50 POUNDS: 8/75 Cosmopolitan; 6/20/74 Daily Variety (800-calorie diet)
A BIT MUCH; NAPOLEON: 8/79 McCall’s; 4/79 Look
TOLD TOM SNYDER: 2/14/80 Tomorrow
MADE A PACT: numerous published interviews with Wood and Wagner
RATH COMMENTS: Earl Rath, Jr., to SF, 1/4/00
APPEALING WAIF: “Michael Caine Is a ‘Peeper,’ ”Richard Cuskelly, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12/3/75
GAVE IT THEIR ALL: 3/76 TV Star Parade 345, 348 DIDN’T WORK; GREGSON’S KIDS SPENT SUMMERS: Peggy Griffin to SF
SEMI-RETIREMENT: 3/76 Movie World
HOUSE LESS SHOWY; ANALYST FOR GIRLS: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
ZEST FOR LIFE: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
ENJOYING THEIR CHILDHOOD: “Natalie Wood: Our Sexual Conscience on the Silver Screen?” L’Officiel/USA, August 1980
SPOILED ROTTEN: “Out Of The Woods,” Claire Lovat, The Sunday Times, 12/6/98
FACTS OF LIFE AT 4: “Revealing Talent,” Jamie Painter, Back Stage West Drama-Logue, 1/21/99 (talked about sex); 8/80 L’Officiel (not proper)