Beginning her film career at age five, Natalie Wood made the successful transition from child star, acting opposite James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause." She racked up numerous Oscar nods throughout her career, acting in such future classics as "West Side Story" and "Splendor in the Grass." Her personal life included two marriages to the actor Robert Wagner. She was with Wagner and Christopher Walken when she drowned near Santa Catalina Island, California in 1981.
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Natalie Wood
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Widowed
The epic romance, complete with two marriages and one child, ended in tragedy when Natalie Wood drowned on a trip to Catalina Island with husband Robert Wagner and friend (and alleged lover) Christopher Walken. The death was determined to be ...
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Dated
Wood's mysterious death by drowning over Thanksgiving, 1981, swirls with rumors of an affair with her then co-star Walken. Husband Robert Wagner admitted years later that he fought with Walken about issues of "emotional infidelity" but the deeper rumour is ...
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Natalie Wood became mesmerized with Beatty while acting alongside him in "Splendor in the Grass." Wood left husband Robert Wagner for Beatty, making her the first in a string of co-stars that Beatty managed to ensnare. Now it's part of ...
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Stories vary as to why Elvis and Natalie Wood didn't last. Some say Wood stormed out of Elvis's bedroom on a night of lousy lovemaking (Wood accused Elvis and his entourage of being gay). Others say, Elvis dumped would because ...
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