Natasha (75 page)

ANGLOPHILE
: Tony Costello to SF

CRUSH ON FINNEY; SOMEONE TO LOVE HER
: Sugar Bates to SF

BRICUSSE COMMENTS
: Leslie Bricusse to SF

COSTELLO COMMENTS
: Tony Costello to SF

THAT WAS IT
: “Natalie Wood - From Pampered Star,” Peer J. Oppenheimer,
Family Weekly
, 10/19/69

MADE A LIST; SOMETHING ABOUT R.J
.: Lana Wood to SF

READY TO MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN
: 2/67
Motion Picture;
11/9/66
Daily Variety;
Olga Viripaeff to SF

STRONG MAN; FEAR OF FLYING
: 7/71
Pageant

WORKED ON
ROSE GARDEN
: Sydney Pollack to SF; Tony Costello to SF

JUST LIVING
: 10/30/69
New York Times

DRESSED LIKE A STAR FOR FLIGHTS
: Diane Wells to SF, December 2000

NATALIE HIS FIRST BIG CHALLENGE
: 8/72
Photoplay

BOTH HAVE TEMPERS
: 7/71
Pageant

DIDN’T SEE WARMTH
: David Niven, Jr., to SF

REDFORD COMMENTS
: Robert Redford to SF

FAINTLY TRAGIC
: 11/68
Cosmopolitan

LIKE
BOB
SCRIPT
: 3/9/69
New York Times;
1/70 unsourced U.K. article from British Film Institute Natalie Wood collection; 9/69
Movie World

KNEW IN 10 SECONDS
: Paul Mazursky,
E True Hollywood Story

INSECURE; WOULDN’T DO NUDE
: 10/30/69
Los Angeles Times
; Lana Wood to SF

GOULD COMMENTS
: Elliott Gould to SF, 10/16/99

HAPPY WITH GREGSON
: Sugar Bates to SF

NO STAR CRAP
: Mazursky, “The Final Days”

MOCKED STAR IMAGE
: 3/9/69
New York Times

EMBARRASSED AS HELL
: Natalie Wood,
Tomorrow
, 2/14/80

SCARED TO SKI
: 10/30/69
Los Angeles Times

MAY WEDDINGS
: Olga Viripaeff to SF

RADIATED HAPPINESS, DELAYED CHILDHOOD
: 10/18/69
Family Weekly

FIRST TIME PREGNANT
: Natalie Wood, excerpt, AMC’s
Hollywood Real to Reel

JUNE ’70 DINNER PARTY
: Linda Foreman to SF, 9/16/99;
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star;
“Natalie Wood’s Real-Life Romantic Comedy,” Judy Klemesrud,
New York Times
, 2/10/80; “Happily Ever After,” Jon Land,
Saturday Evening Post
, March 1979; 12/76
People;
11/74
Photoplay;
3/86
GQ
; 11/85
Parade;
12/76
Donahue;
8/75
Cosmopolitan
; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

NATASHA’S BIRTH HAPPIEST MOMENT
: 10/79
Orange Coast

ANOTHER CHANCE AT CHILDHOOD; UPSET AT MUD: Lana Wood to SF

NATASHINKA
: Natalie Wood’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin

THOUGHTS ON MOTHERHOOD
: 9/72
Modern Screen

AFFAIR WITH SECRETARY, RESTRAINING ORDER
: Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Leslie Bricusse to SF; Lana Wood to SF; “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 4/79
Look;
11/71
Modern Screen
; 11/71
Motion Picture
; 8/75
Cosmopolitan
; 11/71
Photoplay;
Peggy Griffin to SF; Bob Jiras to SF

ISOLATED SELF, TRANQUILIZERS
: Lana Wood to SF; 8/17/71
Daily Variety;
“Natalie Wood Tells,” Renee Haverhill,
Photoplay
, April 1972

UPSET, STOPPED EATING, SARDINIA, OLGA COMMENTS
: Olga Viripaeff to SF; 4/72
Photoplay;
Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood” 334, 336 CALL FROM R.J.; CALLS AGAIN: Natalie Wood, 12/76
Donahue;
Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 8/11/71
Daily Variety
(R.J. in town); “New Rules For A Second Marriage,” Vernon Scott,
Photoplay
, November 1974; 2/10/80
New York Times
; 12/76
People; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
; 11/85
Parade

TINA CRUSH ON R.J
.: 9/70
Rona Barrett’s Hollywood

NOT WHEN; FRANCE
: 10/19/71
Hollywood Reporter;
10/18/71
Hollywood Reporter
(villa)

THOUGHT WORLD; SEPARATE DIRECTIONS; ZIFFREN FINANCES
: Peggy Griffin to SF

DATED MCQUEEN
: Peggy Griffin to SF; Neile Adams to SF; Dennis Roberts to SF (sunglasses); Lana Wood to SF; 10/29 & 12/27/71
Hollywood Reporter;
“How Steve McQueen Ended Her Heartache,” Carol Welles,
Photoplay
, 2/72; “Ali Crushed,” June Thayer,
Movie World
, 4/73; “All About Those Dates Between Natalie Wood And Steve McQueen,”
Movieland
, 2/72

DATED JERRY BROWN
: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; 2/72
Photoplay

SMEDLEY NOTICED
: “How Bob Makes Natalie Feel Like a Bride Every Night,” Marcia Borie,
Photoplay
, 11/72

NATASHA PROTECTED HER; R.J. LIKE ROMEO
: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

PERFECT LOVE
: 4/72
Photoplay

NURSERY RHYMES
: “A World of Her Own,” Tim de Lisle,
Daily
Telegraph Weekend Magazine
, 12/12/98

FAVOR FOR REDFORD, LAST CONTACT
: Robert Redford to SF

MINK AND JEANS, PLAYED LAST SCENE
:
Filming “The Candidate
,” Bruce Bahrenburg, Warner Books Inc., New York, 1972

PLAINTIVE CALL
: Edie Adams to SF

HOLIDAY PLANS
: 12/28/71 & 1/4/72
Daily Variety

RECONNECTED AT CHRISTMAS: Peggy Griffin to SF; Lana Wood to SF; 11/74
Photoplay
(stopped by with gifts; “instant attraction”); 8/72
Photoplay
(R.J. felt nostalgic, Natalie like a girl again); 12/72
People
(went on 1/26); “Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner’s Baby Girl,” Henry Gris,
Photoplay
, 6/74 (together from Palm Springs on); 3/86
GQ
(secretly in Palm Springs); 8/75
Cosmopolitan
(understanding they’d remarry)

BAILED R.J. OUT
: 3/86
GQ

LANA WORRIED; DEVIL YOU KNOW; GOT WHAT WANTED
: Lana Wood to SF; Robert Hyatt to SF; “My Sister, Natalie Wood,” Sally Ogle Davis,
Ladies Home Journal
, 11/82

R.J. NICE; NATALIE WENT OUT OF HER WAY
: Sugar Bates to SF

TOWNHOUSE FOR GURDINS
: “We’d Be Crazy Not to Remarry,” Lee Alexander,
Silver Screen
, 8/72

NEEDED BODYGUARDS
: 4/14/72
Hollywood Reporter

ZEITENSPRUNG
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan;
Mickey Ziffren,
The Movies
, 10/83

R.J. SELDOM ON WATER, WANTED BACK; HUNTING “OUR BOAT”
:9/27/81
San Antonio Light

WORST STORMS
: “We Almost Died Together,” Polly Terry,
Photoplay
, 1/74; 4/24/72
New York Daily News
(made headlines)

TOOK PHOTOGRAPHER ALONG
: Michael Childers, “The Final Days”

NEITHER RELIGIOUS
: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF (used astrologer Carroll Righter); “Pregnant Natalie Wood Cries,”
Movie Life
, 1/74 (used Righter)

WEDDING
: 11/74
Photoplay;
“Natalie Gives Us Her Wedding Album!” Marcia Borie,
Silver
Screen, October 1972; 10/72
Modern Screen
; 11/72
Rona Barrett’s Hollywood

SEASICK
: 1/76
TV Radio Mirror;
Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn

GRIFFIN COMMENTS
: Peggy Griffin to SF

TOUGH FOR NATALIE
: Lana Wood to SF

RETREAT FROM
GATSBY
: Natalie Wood, 10/76 San Francisco Film Festival; 6/74
Photoplay

TV LESS PRESTIGE
: 11/78 Hollywood Reporter

CATES COMMENTS
: Gilbert Cates to SF, 12/22/99

LETTER FROM NATALIE TO RUTH GORDON
: courtesy of Barry Redmond

GLASS HOUSE, KNIT BLANKET
: 1/74
Photoplay

INTRIGUED WITH IDEA
: 6/20/74
Daily Variety

MOST WANTED BABY
: 8/74
Modern Screen

CRANE’S DEATH
: Scott Marlowe to SF

SCARED DURING CHILDBIRTH
: “Natalie Wood: Save My Baby,”
Motion Picture
, 7/74

INFERNO
BORING; CONVINCED R.J. TO MOVE; LOST 50 POUNDS
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan
; 6/20/74
Daily Variety
(800-calorie diet)

A BIT MUCH; NAPOLEON: 8/79
McCall’s
; 4/79
Look

TOLD TOM SNYDER
: 2/14/80
Tomorrow

MADE A PACT
: numerous published interviews with Wood and Wagner

RATH COMMENTS
: Earl Rath, Jr., to SF, 1/4/00

APPEALING WAIF
: “Michael Caine Is a ‘Peeper,’ ”Richard Cuskelly,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 12/3/75

GAVE IT THEIR ALL
: 3/76
TV Star Parade
345, 348 DIDN’T WORK; GREGSON’S KIDS SPENT SUMMERS: Peggy Griffin to SF

SEMI-RETIREMENT
: 3/76
Movie World

HOUSE LESS SHOWY; ANALYST FOR GIRLS
: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF

ZEST FOR LIFE
: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

ENJOYING THEIR CHILDHOOD
: “Natalie Wood: Our Sexual Conscience on the Silver Screen?”
L’Officiel/USA
, August 1980

SPOILED ROTTEN
: “Out Of The Woods,” Claire Lovat,
The Sunday Times
, 12/6/98

FACTS OF LIFE AT 4
: “Revealing Talent,” Jamie Painter,
Back Stage West Drama-Logue
, 1/21/99 (talked about sex); 8/80
L’Officiel
(not proper)

NOT AN OPTION
: “Whatever: Natasha Gregson Wagner,” Steve Hochman,
Los Angeles Times
, 1/3/99

SNIFFED BRANCHES; GUEST COTTAGE WITH SIGNS
: Rex Reed, “Remembering Natalie,” “Ovation,” USA, a Cerberns Production

CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
: 10/77
Bon Appetit;
Peggy Griffin to SF; Lana Wood to SF; Gil Cates to SF

HOLLYWOOD COUPLE
: Karl Malden to SF

PUT NATALIE ON STAGE
: Roderick Mann to SF; Lana Wood to SF

NORMALCY HAS MYSTIQUE
: 10/26/76
San Francisco Chronicle

GREGSON’S LIFE CHANGED; IRON BUTTERFLY
: Leslie Bricusse to SF

FOUND
SPLENDOUR
: 9/27/81
San Antonio Light

WHY DID THEY
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn

THIS LITTLE THING
: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

MOORING AT EMERALD BAY
: Doug Bombard to SF, 10/10/99

REMEMBERS MOMMY AS SOLID
: 12/12/98
Daily Telegraph

DON’T MAKE IT SOUND
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan

GRIFFIN COMMENTS
: Peggy Griffin to SF

LANA COMMENTS
: Lana Wood to SF

INSTABILITY NEVER FAR; USED KNIFE AS MIRROR
: Leslie Bricusse to SF

GIFT THAT FELL
: “Raising the Curtain on ‘Cat,’ ” Cecil Smith,
TV
Times;
12/5/76

SPENT TIME WITH WILLIAMS
: unsourced 7/76 U.K. interview, BFI file on Natalie Wood

LISTENED TO FRIENDS: Natalie Wood, 12/76
Donahue

COMPARED OLIVIER TO DEAN
: 10/26/76
San Francisco Chronicle

STAPLETON COMMENTS
: Maureen Stapleton to SF, 2/7/00

TINY LITTLE THING
: 3/77
Photoplay

MIXED REVIEWS
: “This Tribute Smacks of Exploitation,” John J. O’Connor,
The New York Times
, 12/5/76

MIDDLE-AGED SQUARES
: 10/77
Los Angeles Times Home Magazine

PARTIES
: 10/77
Bon Appetit;
Lana Wood to SF

NEAME COMMENTS
: Ronald Neame to SF, 1/9/99

CHOSE IT FOR RUSSIAN ACCENT
: 10/79
Orange Coast

TAPED MUD’S VOICE
: 2/79
New York Daily News;
12/77
Motion Picture

CHARACTERIZATION
: Natalie Wood interview,
Meteor
magazine, Warren Publishing, 1979

BATES COMMENTS
: Sugar Bates to SF

NEAME COMPLAINED ABOUT MAKEUP
: “Film Casting,” Jerry Cohen and Ronald L. Soble,
Los Angeles Times
, 7/4/78

LOOKED HARD
: Robert Werden to SF, 9/20/99

MASON COMMENTS; EVIL-LOOKING
: Ginger Mason to SF, 8/24/99

SYLBERTS’ COMMENTS
: Richard and Sharmagne Sylbert to SF, 6/17/99

ADORED EACH OTHER; ALWAYS DOING THINGS
: Roselle Gordon to SF

MALDEN COMMENTS
: Karl Malden to SF

INTERVIEW DURING
METEOR
: 10/78
Preview

REQUESTED TRAIN
: 10/21/79
Washington Post