Natalie Wood (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gavin Lambert
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1938-1981
- Setting: Hollywood, California
- Principal Characters: Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Maria Gurdin, Nick Gurdin, Richard Gregson, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Courtney Wagner
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Mothers, Twentieth century, Women, Death or dying, Drinking or drunkenness, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Hollywood, Entertaining or entertainers
- Locales: Hollywood, CA
Surprisingly, Natalie Wood: A Life is only the third biography of the legendary actress to be published after her tragic death in 1981. Suzanne Finstad's Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (2001) provided an engrossing account of the actress's life, replete with Hollywood gossip and juicy details, while Lana Wood's Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister (1986) was as much about Lana as Natalie and does not really qualify as a legitimate biography. Lambert, who knew Wood both as a friend and as a colleague—he wrote the screenplay for Inside Daisy Clover and was...
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