Natasha (71 page)

DINNER IN CHINATOWN
: “Remembrances Of James Dean,” Paul Hendrickson,
Los Angeles Times
, 7/22/73

VALENTINO; RUNNING AROUND IN
: Corey Allen to SF

EPIC
: Ann Doran to SF

GRUESOME THOUGHT
: Stanley Kauffman on “Natalie Wood: The Final Days,” September Films, United Productions, aired spring 2000

LUCKY PICTURE
: Natalie Wood, interview excerpt, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

SINCE HELEN HAYES
: 10/9/55
Los Angeles Examiner

ENDEARING
: Ben Cooper to SF

HYSTERICAL OVER DEAN
: 10/78
Interview

CAPITALIZING ON FAME
: United Press release, Vernon Scott, 4/4/57, USC Warner Brothers Archives

BADMOUTHED
: Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF

ADAMS SOLD STORIES
: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF

FELT PRESSURE; ANALYZED HER SCRIPT
: Lana Wood, American Cinematheque

PATS OF JOY
: “Actress, 17, Takes Pet to Sign New Contract,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, 10/27/55

OVERDREW $400
: Incomplete Natalie Wood article by Liza Wilson, unsourced newspaper, 8/19/56, from the USC Warner Brothers Archives

DORTORT COMMENTS
: David Dortort to SF, 6/26/99

ANDERSON COMMENTS
: Richard Anderson to SF, 4/29/99

ESCARGOTS
: 2/60
Coronet

ORSON WELLES MAKEOVER
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF

CRAZY ABOUT BURR
: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF

SAFETY NET
: Debbie Reynolds to SF

CLAIMED TO BE MARRIED
: [Note: Burr’s sister, Geraldine Fuller, said he was married only once; A&E Biography,
Raymond Burr
, airing 3/2/00]

BURR LOVED NATALIE; STUDIO PRESSURED
: Robert Benevides to SF, 6/24/99; “Nat Wood-Bob Wagner: Too Much of Everything?” Joan Curtis,
Screen Parade
, November 1958

TOP PICKS
: “Hedda Hopper Predicts,”
Chicago Tribune Magazine
, 1/1/56

FIVE LAYOUTS
: Warner Brothers publicity files, USC Warners Collection

DOG PADDLE; PHYSICAL WITH BURR; MORE CONCERNED ABOUT WARDROBE
: Judi Meredith Nelson to SF, 6/10/99

WANTED PEOPLE TO LIKE HER
: 6/69
Screen Parade

MORE FAN MAIL
: 8/19/56
Los Angeles Examiner

FAN MAGAZINES STRANGE
: 12/28/69
London Sunday Times

COMPARED TO BROOKE SHIELDS
:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

91
POUNDS, TIME OFF
:
A Cry in the Night
file, USC Warners Collection

BURR SENT FLOWERS; STANDING OVATION; SAW NATALIE THREE TIMES WEEKLY; PHILHARMONIC
:
The Burning Hills
file, USC Warners Collection

MET AT A PARTY
: 1/3/55
Hollywood Reporter
(in a spin at Ciro’s); 3/86
GQ;
“The Love Story of the Year,” Patty de Roulf,
Motion Picture
, December 1957; Natalie Wood to Sue Russell

RED HEART
: Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 2/7/56

TAB HUNTER COMMENTS
: Tab Hunter to SF, 5/3/99

COCONUT GROVE
: undated
Los Angeles Mirror News
, Natalie Wood Collection, USC Warners Archives; 3/9/55
Daily Variety

PLAY FEMME FATALE
: “Movie Veteran at 17,”
People and Places
, March 1956

CURTIS RAN INTO NATALIE AT AN OYSTER HOUSE PARTY, SULKING OVER BURR
: 11/58
Screen Parade;
2/1/56
Hollywood Reporter

WARNER CHAPERONED
: 1/31/56
Hollywood Reporter

JOKES ABOUT HER LINES; GIRL WITH LEFT BEHIND
: Mart Crowley, “Starring Natalie Wood”

HEISLER COMPLAINT
: Stu Heisler phone call, 2/16/56 memo,
The Burning Hills
folder, Jack L. Warner Collection, USC

PLAY CHARACTER PARTS
: 7/56
Filmland

THREW THE BOOK DOWN
: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF

TAYLOR AND BRANDO
: 3/5/56
Daily Variety

EVERY GIRL FALLS
: 11/57
Seventeen

ANNE OF 1000 DAYS;
USO TOUR; AN UNDERSTANDING, MARRIAGE
: “Hollywood Today,” Sheilah Graham,
Hollywood Citizen- News
, 4/5/56

REAL HEART IS BURR
: Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 3/15/56

RETRACTED COMMENTS
: 2/57
Modern Screen

BURR SAID LATER
: “Little Girl, What Now?”
Dell Hollywood Life Stories
, February 1962;
Raymond Burr
, Ona Hill, McFarland and Company, North Carolina, 1994

BURR WAS BITTER
: Robert Benevides to SF

CUT HER HAIR
: Tab Hunter to SF; 3/23/56
Daily
Variety; 7/56
Movie Life;
8/56
Motion Picture

PLUMAS LOCAS
: “S.F. Actress Visits Here,” Bob Hall, unsourced San Francisco newspaper, May 1956

STARTED A TREND; SCHLOCKY
: Tab Hunter to SF

MADE HER DO IT
: circa 1978
Preview

UCLA PARTY
: Tab Hunter to SF; Ed Tolmas to SF, 10/4/99 215, 216 UNAFFECTED; EVER SEE MARY ANN: Dr. Melvyn Wishan to SF, 10/6/99

HONORED US
: 7/56
Modern Screen;
8/56
Screen Album

BACKED OFF
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF

HUNTER WAS SAFE
: Lana Wood to SF

TRIP AN INDUCEMENT
: “Natalie Wood: Female Rebel Without a Cause,”
Exposed
, February 1957

SCOTT MARLOWE COMMENTS
: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99 & 8/12/99

“EILATAN,” NIGHTCLUB TOUR
: Warner Brothers publicity, USC Warners Collection

PINK PHONE, BREAKFAST IN BED
: 8/56
Screen Album

HAWAII TRIP
: “Natalie Wood’s Confidential Diary,” Natalie Wood,
Movie Parade
, November 1956

FELL OFF BOAT; IMPATIENT TO WORK
: “Aloha Means Goodbye,”
Photoplay
, September 1956

READ NIETZSCHE AND WARREN
: 2/60
Coronet

FIRST TIME ON A BOAT
: Scott Marlowe to SF

PICTURED WITH NEPHEWS
: 5/56 unsourced San Francisco paper

WONDERS IF OLGA’S HAPPY
: 7/56
Filmland

MADLY IN LOVE; AFRAID OF DOCTORS; MARIA DIDN’T LIKE ANALYSIS, NATALIE DIDN’T LIKE MOM
: Lana Wood to SF

REALIZED SHE WAS MANIPULATED
: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

HYPNOTIZED
: “Natalie-And Her Men,”
Movie Life
, April 1957

REVIEW OF
GIRL
: “The Girl He Left Behind,” James Powers,
Hollywood Reporter
, 10/26/56

PAID MEDICAL BILLS
: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF

ADAMS AND BLAIR SPIED
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF

TO MARRY MARLOWE
: Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 7/2/56

USING NATALIE; ADAMS PERSUADED NATALIE TO DELAY MARRYING
: “Boy-Crazy Teen-Ager?”
Movieland
, March 1957

WORRIED ABOUT FAN MAGS
: 3/9/69
New York Times

WARNERS PRESS RELEASE TO MAKE PICTURE WITH MARLOWE
: USC Warners Archives, folder for
The Girl He Left Behind

PRESS PARTY, DESSERT PARTY, 50 STARS
:
The Hollywood Reporter
, 7/20/56

DATE ARRANGED BY WILLSON; PUSHED PRESLEY
: Robert Hyatt to SF

STUDIO SETUP DATE; SENT ONE WITH MANNERS
: “Hollywood Can Never Wreck Their Marriage Again!: An Exclusive Interview With Robert Wagner’s Mother-in-Law,” Stacie Keyes,
TV Radio-Mirror
, January 1976; Joan Curtis, quoted in 11/58
Screen Parade

CHIFFON DRESS AND TIARA
: “I’m Not the Girl He Married,” Karen Foster,
Screen Stories
, August 1959

HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL
: Robert Wagner in an undated, unsourced televised interview excerpted on AMC’s
Real to Reel

THOSE EYES, INTELLECT; RUNNING WITH ELITE OF HOLLYWOOD
:
3/86 GQ

WONDERFUL TALENT, MORE ACCOMPLISHED; SO HONEST
: “Now, a New Beginning,” Dotson Rader,
Parade Magazine
, 11/17/85

PERFECT IMITATIONS, WAITED FOR HIM TO CALL, SENT FLOWERS
: “I Married Bob,” Natalie Wood, as told to Liza Wilson,
American Weekly
, 5/18/58

BURNED AN EFFIGY; PLUNGING NECKLINE, TIGER
: 8/58
Modern Screen;
3/10/57 Sheilah Graham column

ANOTHER DATE
: Sidney Skolsky interview with Robert Wagner, 11/21/57, from transcript in Skolsky collection, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

FIRED WILLSON; PRESLEY NOT WHAT SHE WANTED
: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF

TAB’S A SOFT DRINK
: 12/28/69
London Sunday Times

PLANTED ITEM ABOUT ADAMS
: Army Archerd column,
Daily
Variety
, 8/15/56; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; 2/58
Movie TV
(Natalie said it was a set-up)

WOUK’S IMPRESSIONS OF NATALIE
: “My Search for Marjorie,” Herman Wouk,
The American Weekly
, 5/11/58

MET PRESLEY IN MALIBU
: Marlowe to SF; “I Got Cold Feet at the Altar: Elvis: Natalie’s Fill-in-Or Future?” Irene D. Reich,
Modern Screen
, December 1956; undated, unsourced London newspaper clipping quoting Natalie Wood from the British Film Institute collection on Wood

THREESOME
: “Natalie Wood: Show-off or Show-Woman?” Louella Parsons,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 12/16/56

LONELY ON NY TRIP
: “Natalie Wood, the Star Who Beat the Jinx,” Peer J. Oppenheimer,
Compact
, February 1957

NEEDED SOMEONE AROUND
: “Bob, Did You Know?” Judi Meredith,
Photoplay
, March 1958

FIKE COMMENTS
: Lamar Fike to SF, 2/12/99

MUD AND FAHD LIKED PRESLEY; NATALIE CRAZY ABOUT HIM; CALLED IN “CODE”
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn

NATALIE DISCUSSED WITH GOLDMAN; LOOKED THROUGH WINDOWS; HADN’T BEEN AROUND ANYONE RELIGIOUS
:
Elvis

CARNIVAL
REVIEW
:
Daily Variety
, 10/11/56

PLAYED A REAL RAT
: Ben Cooper to SF

VAUGHN COMMENTS
: Letter from Robert Vaughn to SF, 9/9/99

LEFT TOWN ABRUPTLY, SECRETLY
: Leonard Hirshan to SF, 5/4/99; Michael Zimring to SF, 7/2/99; Sheilah Graham column, 3/10/57; Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 3/10/57

WHO SHOULD DRIVE UP
: Jerry Schilling to SF, 7/30/97

MET BY VAUGHN, TOREADORS
: 3/10/57 Sheilah Graham; 11/16/56
Hollywood Reporter

ACT THREE

GOLDEN GLOBE
: information provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association [Note: Natalie received the award in January 1957]

MODERN SCREEN
CEREMONY
: from video of
The Ed Sullivan Show
, 12/3/56; 11/30/56
Hollywood Reporter

BEST ACTING AS HER
: Dennis Hopper to SF