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Natalie Wood
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Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles…
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Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). During the 1970s, Wood began a hiatus from film and had two daughters: one with her second husband Richard Gregson, and one with Robert Wagner, her first husband whom she married again after divorcing Gregson. She acted in only two feature films throughout the decade, but she appeared slightly more often in television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood's films represented a "coming of age" for her and for Hollywood films in general. Critics have suggested that her cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few to take both child roles and those of middle-aged characters. Wood died off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43, during a holiday break from the production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under the instruction of the coroner's office, to list her cause of death as "drowning and other undetermined factors" in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalie Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Movie Debbie Edwards - Age 15 (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
Movie Self
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2020
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Trumbull Land
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Howard
Movie Maria (archive footage)
- 2018
- 2018
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2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie Self (archive)
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2016
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
Movie Self (archive)
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2012
Too Young to Die
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2010
Brunes et Blondes
Movie Self
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2009
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
Movie (archive footage)
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2008
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Movie Herself (uncredited)
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2005
How Real is 'The Star'?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1996
Rediscovering a Rebel
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1990
Death In Hollywood
Movie
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1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Movie (archive footage)
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1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1983
Brainstorm
Movie Karen Brace
- 1982
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1982
Hollywood’s Children
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1980
Willie & Phil
Movie Herself
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1980
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Movie Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
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1980
The Last Married Couple in America
Movie Mari Thompson
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1980
From Here to Eternity
TV show Karen Holmes
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1979
Meteor
Movie Tatiana Donskaya
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1979
Hart to Hart
Movie Movie Star
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1979
The Cracker Factory
Movie Cassie Barrett
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1979
From Here to Eternity
TV show Karen Holmes
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1976
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie Margaret
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1976
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV show Margaret
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1975
Peeper
Movie Ellen Prendergast
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1975
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Movie Self
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1975
Switch
TV show Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)
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1975
People's Choice Awards
TV show Self - Presenter
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1975
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Movie Self
