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Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Hardcover)

by Suzanne Finstad (Author) "NATALIE WOOD" NEVER REALLY EXISTED ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 454 pages
  • Publisher: Harmony Books (Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0609603590
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609603598
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 902,004 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Natalie Wood (1938-81) came from the last generation of movie stars shaped by the Hollywood studio system, and in Natasha Suzanne Finstad gives her life the all-out showbiz celebrity bio treatment. As Finstad sees it, Wood was tortured by the conflict between her real self, born Natasha Zakharenko to Russian immigrants, and the glamorous "Natalie Wood" persona created by her ambitious mother. Wood admired rebellious actors like James Dean, her co-star in Rebel Without a Cause, but she wanted the mink coats, sexy cars, and huge salaries Warner Brothers doled out for appearances in forgettable pictures like Sex and the Single Girl. Working in films from age six, she learned early that the way to get ahead was to please the grownups, a lesson she never really unlearned, even in her wild teens. She ditched a fiancé‚ deemed unsuitable by the studio, to marry suave rising star Robert Wagner, despite warnings from friends that he was bisexual; their first marriage ended when she found him "in a compromising position with another man," but they reunited in 1972 to become Hollywood's golden couple once more. But her attraction to more challenging artists remained; her friendship with Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken sparked the drunken quarrel that in Finstad's account led to Wood's drowning off Wagner's boat. (Chillingly, she had a lifelong fear of water.) Numerous quotes from practically everyone who ever knew Wood evoke Tinseltown's gossipy atmosphere, and Finstad's overwrought prose (she describes Wood as "bound to her mother, as if Maria were a snake coiled around her neck") sustains an appropriately high-pitched mood. Suicide attempts, reckless driving, excessive drinking, rape by an unnamed Hollywood star are all chronicled in detail that might be distasteful if the author weren't so sympathetic towards her vulnerable heroine. --Wendy Smith --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Biography, 16 Aug 2003
By S. Rhodes (Sheffield) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (Paperback)
As tragic and gripping as Marilyn Monroe's story, this biography is full of repression and superstition. Natalie's overbearing mother looms large throughout the book, as does the legacy of the fears that she installed in her chosen daughter.
Despite the traumatic and unconventional upbringing and heartbreaking lack of friends as a child, Natalie was sympathetic and sensitive to others throughout her life. The warmth of her character shines through again and again in the comments of her later friends and acquantainces.
This book is well written and researched, and is a fascinating and eerie story of the tragic life and death of this famous film star. If you are even only vaguely interested in Natalie Wood (as I was before I read this), you will be gripped and haunted by her troubled life.
Read this book now.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE FOR ALL NATALIE WOOD FANS, 24 Jul 2001
This review is from: Natasha : " The Biography Of Natalie Wood " (Hardcover)
Natalie Wood illuminated the screen as a child, an ingenue, and as a mature actress. Decades of fans admired her, and continue to do so 20 years after her death.

Born Natasha Zacharenko to a poor Russian family, the child who became "Natalie Wood" was pushed before the cameras by her fiercely determined mother. Her career took off immediately and she starred in some of the most enduring and acclaimed movies of our time.

Suzanne Finstad spent 3 years interviewing every man, woman, and child who ever knew Natalie and was willing to talk. Among them were her co-stars, friends and family members as well as her first boyfriend and first fiance. "Natasha" also contains dozens of unpublished photos from the private albums of Natalie's friends, family and co-stars.

The result is the only real biography that has ever been written about Natalie Wood, "Natasha" is unapologetic, unflinching and complete. It reveals much that we never knew, suspected or imagined about a child, a girl and a woman who spent her life in front of lights and cameras, yet died in the cold and darkness.

Natalie Wood's stardom endures. Readers will be eager to immerse themselves in "Natasha", to remind themselves of an actress who gave so much onscreen, and to finally know the woman who hid so much behind it.

REVELATIONS TO BE FOUND IN "NATASHA": How Natalie's mother manipulated a director into making Natalie a child star; Natalie's fear of drowning and its origin;

Natalie's father's drunken violence and its effects on her relationships with men; Natalie's secret engagement to her highschool sweetheart; The true reason her first marriage to Robert Wagner ended in divorce; Natalie's suicide attempts and the reasons behind them; Natalie's shattering divorce from second husband Richard Gregson; The official sheriff's records of Natalie's drowning.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definetly the book for Natalie wood fans., 26 Mar 2002
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I found Natasha a very interesting read right from the start linking with the rominoff family.
Inspite of such beauty and talent she seemed to always be looking for more in her life. A book well worth reading looking into her death on Robert Wagners and her boat at the end.
Well worth reading if your interested in Natalie wood and Robert Wagner.
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