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She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street. Her adolescence in Rebel Without a Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story and countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946, playing Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles’s ward in Tomorrow Is Forever at the age of seven, to her shocking, untimely death in 1981, the decades of her life are marked by movies that–for their moments–summed up America’s dreams.
Now the acclaimed novelist, biographer, critic and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novel Inside Daisy Clover, tells her extraordinary story. He writes about her parents, uncovering secrets that Natalie either didn’t know or kept hidden from those closest to her. Here is the young Natalie, from her years as a child actress at the mercy of a driven, controlling stage mother (“Make Mr. Pichel love you,” she whispered to the five-year-old Natalie before depositing her unexpectedly on the director’s lap), to her awkward adolescence when, suddenly too old for kiddie roles, she was shunted aside, just another freshman at Van Nuys High. Lambert shows us the glamorous movie star in her twenties—All the Fine Young Cannibals, Gypsy and Love with the Proper Stranger. He writes about her marriages, her divorces, her love affairs, her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children, her friendships, her struggles as an actress and her tragic death by drowning (she was always terrified of water) at forty-three.
For the first time, everyone who knew Natalie Wood speaks freely–including her husbands Robert Wagner and Richard Gregson, famously private people like Warren Beatty, intimate friends such as playwright Mart Crowley, directors Robert Mulligan and Paul Mazursky, and Leslie Caron, each of whom told the author stories about this remarkable woman who was both life-loving and filled with despair.
What we couldn’t know–have never been told before–Lambert perceptively uncovers. His book provides the richest portrait we have had of Natalie Wood.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #1628227 in Books
- Published on: 2005-04-01
- Released on: 2005-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.10" h x 6.28" w x 9.24" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 370 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Unlike the sexually explicit Natasha, by Suzanne Finstad, or Lana Wood's Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister, Lambert's take on the luminous star of Gypsy and West Side Story is a relatively discreet, affectionate examination of Wood's short, turbulent life. Groomed by a fanatically controlling stage mother, Wood (1938â€"1981) enchanted audiences in 1946's Tomorrow Is Forever and prompted Louella Parsons to proclaim, "Natalie Wood eats your heart out." Lambert follows her from such childhood triumphs as Miracle on 34th Street to her breakthrough adult part opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. Wood's overlapping affairs with Rebel director Nicholas Ray and cast member Dennis Hopper, and brief romance with Elvis Presley, will be familiar material to aficionados. But Lambert reveals deep sensitivity and understanding of her development as an actress, and he's one of the few authors to capture the depth and beauty of her relationship with Robert Wagner. Lambert also effectively highlights Wood's shrewd professional moves, including her pretense to boss Jack Warner that she didn't want to star in Splendor in the Grass, because she knew he would refuse to let her appear in it if she displayed enthusiasm. The shooting of Wood's film with Robert Redford, Inside Daisy Clover, has special authenticity, since Lambert wrote the screenplay and witnessed her frustrations after several crucial voice-overs were cut from the final print. Details regarding Wood's tragic drowning are inevitably speculative and vital questions remain unanswered. But Lambert eloquently clarifies the self-destructive reasons behind Wood's addictions and insecurities, and in the end, readers will feel they truly know the subject more than they do in most biographies. 65 photos.
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From Bookmarks Magazine
Most critics agree with The Washington Post that Natalie Wood "is splendid in every way." Capturing the real essence of another person is virtually impossible, especially when immersed in celebrity drama and pretense. In this moving and thorough examination of Wood's groundbreaking career and too-short life, Lambert, an accomplished novelist whose Inside Daisy Clover provided the basis for one of Wood's films, has come close to the impossible. With great empathy, he explores Wood the movie star and Wood the person, pointing out that all too often even she couldn't distinguish between the two. Natalie Wood, concludes the New York Times Book Review, "could be a model for a new way of looking at and thinking about today's movie stars."
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
From Booklist
Although Lambert came to know Natalie Wood (1938-81) well after she starred in the 1965 film of his novel Inside Daisy Clover, he wasn't among her closest friends. He was close enough, however, to characterize her family members, husband, and closer associates convincingly, and to prevail upon them to reveal more than they might have to a biographer-stranger. The story he obtained-- that of the only child movie star, except Elizabeth Taylor, who became an adult star in leading roles--includes most of the bad elements of growing up in Hollywood but also real acting talent, a personality that made her fast friends, and eventually the capacity to manage many who had managed her. Still, she was prone to depression and to overuse of painkillers and alcohol--all possible factors in her drowning death. Clotted with famous names and astute about the worth of each of Wood's performances (while eliding the fact that she never appeared in a bona fide great film), this is a very good Hollywood bio. Ray Olson
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Most helpful customer reviews
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Average account of an above average lady
By A Customer
Much of Gavin Lambert's account of Natalie Wood's life has already been explored in the 1996 "Natasha" by Susanne Finstadt. Still, there are new things revealed, and its definitely worth a read.
While I enjoyed the book, its worst failure is that it doesn't give the reader a true sense of the incredible woman that was Natalie Wood. I expected more from Mr Lambert, as he was a friend of Nat's for over two decades.
I longed for an intimate look inside of the tough, brave, rebelous, witty, fun loving, cute, humble, open, sweet and lovely, LONELY, hotheaded and sometimes slow to forgive and forget woman, who spent her career -- really her LIFE -- exploring all aspects of the "female" psyche on screen.
Nat was far from perfect (which she herself admitted with humor many times). She had her ups and downs, personal failings, lifelong mental struggles, and phobias.
But she survived a HORRENDOUS childhood, to be basically a loving lady, whose real life struggles and exploits are more passionate and interesting and compassionate than most of the plots of her films.
One real downer with Lambert's book is that this is Natalie's story, NOT her sister Lana's. So, why was it necessary for the author to discuss whether or not Nick Gurdin is Lana's biological father?
And on that subject, Mr Lambert seems to "out" Natalie as well. Can't the Wagner family afford DNA testing? Unless its a PROVEN fact, why bother even contemplating that topic? It was simply in bad taste to this reader.
Speaking of family -- where IS the Wagner family in Mr Lambert's account? Barely there is the answer.
Robert Wagner is interviewed fairly extensively (a positive for the book), but Natalie's daughters are barely mentioned. And Lana is persona non grata (Lambert should have interviewed Lana to get her side of the many awful claims about her)!!!!
My least favorite part of the book is Mr Lambert's "bonus" discussion of Nat's films. Frankly, he could have skipped this entirely!
Personally, I wish that the publishers had included the full AFI Interview with Nat that Mr Lambert refers to throughout the book.
Why do I care what Gavin Lambert thinks of Nat's performances on film?! I wanted to know what NATALIE WOOD thought of her films and the people she worked with!!!!!
Natalie was a wonderful actress (in my opinion). If a reader wants to get a sense of who Nat was -- see her wonderful films (there's nearly 50 to track down from her childhood through her final film "Brainstorm")!
You'll get a sense of her from sweet and innocent but manipulated young child, to a disturbed and perhaps lonely but always humorous and loving resillient woman! That was Natalie Wood to this fan!
Nancy J
Culver City, CA
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
One Star
By Verna L. Lucas
DID NOT LIKE IT
28 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
A Flop
By Mara Kurtz
As a devoted Natalie Wood fan (she was my childhood hero), I looked forward to reading a bio filled with new information and written by a friend who enjoyed a "twenty-year friendship" with Natalie. What a disappointment!
The book is a bore from start to finish. There are far too many stories about Hollywood wannabes and an endless rehash of details about her mother, father and sisters. There are no meaningful insights, no interesting details revealed.
Lambert's writing is so awkward frequently had to reread the sentence page. Paragraph transitions are disjointed as well, and there are many disconcerting examples of odd word useage such as: "Everett Sloane...had sounded authentically Hebrew in the small part of a rabbi in Morningstar." Authentically Hebrew?
His numerous inaccuracies are disturbing as well. One wonders whether Lambert actually watched Natalie's films before writing the book.
The premise of "Marjorie Morningstar," for example, concerns a wealthy Jewish girl's dreams of breaking away from family tradition. Marjorie's lover, played by Gene Kelly as the the son of highly respected Jewish parents (his father is a judge), tries, in his own way, to escape family expectations.
Had the author bothered to see this film he would never have written "For Wouk to make Marjorie (nee Morgenstern) Jewish seems more a gimmick than an essential part of her star-is-not-born story, and in the movie the Jewish element is so diluted that it has no effect on her WASP lover, who's only momentarily restive at the Morgenstern's Passover dinner."
Skip this one. Suzanne Finstad's "Natasha" is a far more interesting and well written exploration of Natalie's life.
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