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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.
- Sales Rank: #1176216 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-01-11
- Released on: 2012-01-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
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."
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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
26 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Serviceable court biography
By margot
When Suzanne Finstad's biography of Natalie Wood came out a couple of years ago, RJ Wagner refrained from commenting on it or giving his assistance because (we were told) a more authoritative biography was already in the works.
This is that more authoritative biography--an authorized biography, in fact, sanctioned by family and friends. What a disappointment. It is both bland and sketchy. Unlike Finstad, Lambert does not seem to have done any legwork in researching this, other than a couple of phone calls to Mart Crowley, Natasha Lofft, and a few other frequently quoted supporting players. The result is a book a plodding book short on revelation and telling detail.
I feel gypped by this book. We were led to believe it would set the record straight about the breakup of Natalie and RJ's first marriage (the Finstad book says it was precipitated by RJ's homosexual sidetrips); that it would give the final word on Natalie's mysterious drowning, in which RJ was a suspect; and maybe it would shed some light on the suggestion in Finstad's book that Kirk Douglas, or somebody like him, raped Natalie when she was a teenager.
So what news here? None at all. But be of good cheer, Gavin Lambert! You need never fear you'll be scratched off the Wagners' "A" list.
Gavin, why did you bother? Being a social friend of Natalie and RJ's does not qualify one to write her biography. If anything, quite the opposite--it curtails one's honesty, since most of the principals are still alive. Better if you had made this a personal memoir--"Natalie as I Remember Her"--and avoided the trap of a full-scale bio.
45 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
A tawdry betrayal......
By rynegold
For me at least, this book is a huge disappointment. Who could possibly be interested in reading about Natalie Wood's gay male secretary Marty Crowley's sordid encounter with a call boy? Or page after Page of cruel unsubstantiated attempts to character assassinate and "out" Scott Marlowe - an actor the young Natalie Wood was in love with, who is not alive to defend himself?
Gavin Lambert, who has written about his own homosexual affairs, goes to extreme and transparent lengths to try to establish that his friend Robert Wagner (for whom I believe, he wrote this book) is a virile heterosexual - even including a sleazy account of a supposed encounter between Wagner and a (Japanese?) prostitute. Who are they kidding?
There are innumerable tasteless and pointless disjointed incidents of Natalie allegedly drunk and "swishing her tail" in front of men - a nasty ruse by Lambert, on behalf (perhaps?) of Robert Wagner, to try to shift the blame to Natalie for her horrible drowning and to deflect attention away from Wagner's suspicious and disgraceful behavior that night. What kind of "friend" of Natalie Wood's - as Lambert claims to be - would write a book about her to make a case that her father, who she loved dearly and who looks just like her, was not her biological parent? Lambert also trashes Natalie's mother and her sister Lana with tacky family gossip apparently provided by Wagner.
This book is a disaster: ditto its ghost writer.
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
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