Natasha (73 page)

CAREER IN DANGER; LIKE A DOLL
: 10/23/61
Newsweek

DRESSED UP TO MEET KAZAN; NAKED AND GASPING
: 2/26/62
Newsweek

HAS-BEEN; TWINKLE, UNSATISFIED HUNGER; DO ANYTHING BUT WATER SCENE; BEATTY AFFAIR
:
Elia Kazan: A Life
, Elia Kazan, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1988

DISGUSTED WITH HER IMAGE
: “What Hollywood Does to Women,” Elizabeth Pope,
Good Housekeeping
, June 1962

KRANZE COMMENTS
: Don Kranze to SF, 9/8/99

SUPER CHIEF
WITH TAYLOR
: “The Fantastic Truth About Those Liz-Bob-Natalie Rumors!” Nell Blythe,
Movie Life
, September 1960; “Heart to Heart With Liz & R.J.,” David Wallace,
People
, 10/6/86

SUTTON PLACE, R.J. PLAYED PIANO, GOING DOWNHILL
: Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 4/23/60; 6/62
Photoplay;
11/85
Parade

RETURN TO GOLDEN WORLD; BE BOLD
:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

MAKE FOOL; LOVED CRAMPED STAGES
: 7/23/81
Los Angeles Times;
6/62
Vogue

JIRAS COMMENTS
: Robert Jiras to SF, 9/16/99

INGE RECOMMENDED BEATTY
: Inge letter to Trilling 6/9/59, Trilling Collection, USC

HINGLE COMMENTS
: Pat Hingle to SF, 9/7/99

NATALIE SAID SHE FOUND BEATTY DIFFICULT
: 10/78
Interview;
11/68
Cosmopolitan
(called affair nonsense); 3/9/69
New York Times
; 2/62
Screen Stories

TOLD REDFORD
: Robert Redford to SF

COLLINS DENIES AFFAIR
: Joan Collins to SF, by letter

NATALIE WAS SERIOUS
: Lana Wood to SF

PANICKY ABOUT BATHTUB SCENE
: Henry Jaglom to SF, 6/23/99; Lana Wood to SF

KAZAN COULD CUT AWAY
: “Natalie Wouldn’t, Necessarily,” John Hartl,
San Francisco Times

HAD AUDREY SAY A LINE
: “Natalie Wood: Mother, Men, and the Muse,” Murray Kempton,
Show
, March 1962

LIED ABOUT LEDGE
: 12/28/69
London Times

KAZAN TRICKED NATALIE ABOUT DOUBLE
: 2/79
New York Daily News

KAZAN DENIED
: Elia Kazan, AMC’s
Hollywood Real to Reel

INTERVIEW ABOUT DOUBLE
: “Natalie’s Double Couldn’t Swim,” Frank Quinn,
New York Sunday Mirror
, 6/12/60

DOUBLE THREATENED TO SUE
: Correspondence file, 8/15/60 letter from attorney Melvin Block to Warner Brothers, Warners Special Collections, USC [states the double could swim]

MAGUIRE’S COMMENTS
: Charles Maguire to SF, 6/16/99

HANCHETT’S COMMENTS
: Willis Hanchett to SF, 6/9/99

NATALIE ECSTATIC BUT UPSET HOODWINKED
: Mart Crowley, AMC’s
Hollywood Real to Reel

TALKED ABOUT KAZAN’S MANIPULATION
: Dennis Hopper to SF

LOCKWOOD’S COMMENTS
: Gary Lockwood to SF, 10/7/99

KAZAN’S FAVORITE SCENE; BROUGHT HER OWN PAIN TO IT
: Elia Kazan, AMC’s
Hollywood Real to Reel

GOT CALL DURING
SPLENDOR
, ODD SITUATION
: Natalie Wood,
Donahue
, December 1976

FIRST APPROACHED ABOUT MARIA
: 7/22/59
Daily Variety
(Natalie and Elvis Presley for
West Side);
1/24/60 Hedda Hopper column (offer to Natalie); 12/4/61
Los Angeles Times
(Natalie said she was considered from the start [Wise confirmed to Army Archerd, 1981])

LAWRENCE TOO OLD; WANTED UNKNOWN
: Walter Mirisch to SF, January 2001; also Hirshan to SF (wanted unknown who could sing)

FAWN IN FOREST
: Robert Relyea to SF, 8/16/99; Robert Relyea,
West Side Stories
, MGM-UA Entertainment, produced by Peter Fitzgerald, 1995

RELYEA COMMENTS; PANIC SET IN
: Robert Relyea to SF, 8/16/99

TESTED ALBERGHETTI, ETC
.: Warner Brothers Special Collections,
West Side Story
file, USC, handwritten notes of possible Marias

NEEDED “NAME”
: Robert Wise to SF, 7/30/97

SAW
SPLENDOR
TEST
: Robert Wise, “E True Hollywood Story: Natalie Wood,” (“That’s our Maria”); Wise, “West Side Stories” documentary

IMPRESSED BY DEPTH
: Jerome Robbins, AMC’s
Hollywood Real to Reel

NOT EAGER TO PLAY INGÉNUE
: 6/30/61
Daily Variety

SURPRISE 22ND BIRTHDAY
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 7/20/61; “Lunch Date
With Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner,” Lyn Tornabene,
Cosmopolitan
, October 1960 (on-set party, Sinatra at 500 Club)

ATTENDED SINATRA’S OPENING
: Louella Parsons,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 8/1/61

NEGOTIATED IN ASBURY PARK
: Leonard Hirshan to SF; 7/26/61
Daily Variety;
Natalie Wood,
Donahue
, 12/76 (dance scenes had been shot); Paramount production notes: shooting began in NY on 8/10/61

NATALIE TURNED DOWN PERCENTAGE
: 3/62
Show

HARDLY THOUGHT OF MUSICAL ASPECTS
: Natalie Wood interview,
Los Angeles Times
, 12/4/60

SINGING INTRIGUED HER
: Robert Blake outtakes; Olga Viripaeff to SF; Robert Wise to SF; Walter Mirisch to SF

AGREEMENT ABOUT HER VOICE
: Walter Mirisch to SF; Robert Wise to SF; Saul Chaplin,
West Side Stories
documentary

VOICE LESSONS, BELIEVED SHE’D SING
: Robert Blake outtakes; Marni Nixon to SF, 10/11/99; Marni Nixon,
West Side Stories;
12/4/61
Los Angeles Times
(taking voice lessons and to do own singing)

CROWLEY HER BEST GIRLFRIEND
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn

CROWLEY A CARETAKER; HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF

HOUSE IN DISREPAIR
: Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Herald- Examiner
, 8/24/61 (on boat); 12/4/61
Los Angeles Times
; 2/22/62
Hollywood Reporter
(roof fell in); 9/22/61
Time

PHONE NOT RINGING
: Wagner to
Sunday Express
, 8/5/62

MISS HAVISHAM’S MANSION
: 11/68
Cosmopolitan

BEVERLY HOUSE ORNATE
: 1/3/60
Los Angeles Examiner;
2/60
Modern Screen
; “Endsville,” Louella Parsons,
Modern Screen
, June 1960 (mad young millionaires)

BUTLER
: 10/60
Cosmopolitan
; 2/60
Modern Screen
; Robert Hyatt to SF; Jeanne Hyatt to SF

12-HOUR DAYS; WISE THOUGHT INJURED
: “Natalie Wood: Beauty and Violence,” Stanley Gordon and Jack Hamilton,
Look
, 4/11/61; 12/4/60
Los Angeles Times

MORENO COMMENTS
: Rita Moreno to SF, 9/14/99

RESENTED NATALIE
: Rita Moreno to SF; Tony Mordente to SF

EXHAUSTED
: Louella Parsons,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 8/22/61; 9/22/61
Time

THREATENED NOT TO SHOW UP
: Saul Chaplin, “West Side Stories”

MORDENTE COMMENTS
: Tony Mordente to SF, 9/8/99

INSECURE
: Lana Wood to SF; Tony Mordente to SF

BEATTY NOT AROUND
: Bob Jiras to SF

NATALIE TOLD HIGH NOTES DUBBED
: Marni Nixon,
West Side Stories;
12/7/61
Daily Variety
(Wise says Natalie’s voice on “borderline”); Marni Nixon to SF

NATALIE WAS DECEIVED ABOUT VOICE
: Marni Nixon to
Boston
Herald
, 9/20/94 (a “conspiracy”); Marni Nixon,
West Side Stories;
Saul Chaplin,
West Side Stories

NATALIE UPSET ABOUT VOICE
: Tony Mordente to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF; Robert Wise to SF; Relyea to SF; Marni Nixon to SF; Morgan Brittany to SF, 8/19/99

TONSILLECTOMY
:
Daily Variety
3/23/61, 4/6/61 (scheduled tomorrow), 4/11/61 (complications), 4/13/61 (missed Oscars); 4/6/61
Hollywood Reporter;
4/14/61 Louella Parsons (R.J. says “terrible” tonsillectomy); “Why Natalie and Bob Split!” Peter Forbes,
Motion Picture
, September 1961; “The Night Liz Prayed for Natalie,” Naomi Katz,
Movie Life
, September 1961 (bled 4 hours); 3/62
Photoplay
(Maria says Natalie almost died in surgery); “The Story Behind The Split,” No. 16, 1961
Hollywood Romances
(R.J. took adjoining hospital room)

PRESSURED TO DO
INSPECTOR
: Correspondence, Warner Brothers Steve Trilling Special Collection, USC; trade reports

NATALIE VISITED R.J. ON SET
: 5/4/61
Hollywood Reporter;
Irving Brecher to SF, 5/29/99; Mother Dolores Hart to SF, 9/23/99

WAGNERS TO GO TO EUROPE FOR R.J. TO MEET ZANUCK AND NATALIE TO MAKE
LOVERS
: Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 6/9/61

NATALIE SIGNED FOR
LOVERS
: Contracts and correspondence, Trilling Collection, USC; 6/2/61
Hollywood Reporter
(Natalie signed); Troy Donahue to SF

WAGNERS’ JUNE SOCIAL SCHEDULE
: reports of their attendance in 6/61 trades and Parsons columns (see Parsons: Beatty and Collins just returned from Europe); see also 10/61
Movie Life
(Wagners and Beatty/Collins foursome); 6/22/61
Los Angeles Mirror
(hand-in-hand at Jubilee)

AFTER
SAIL
WRAPPED
: 1961
Hollywood Romances
; 10/61
Screen Stories
; 2/62
Screen Stories

NATALIE’S ACCOUNT OF MARRIAGE ENDING
: Robert Hyatt to SF (from Natalie and Maria); Jeanne Hyatt to SF (from Maria); Lana Wood to SF (from Maria and Natalie); Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF (from Natalie)

IN HIDING
: Robert Hyatt to SF; Jeanne Hyatt to SF; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF (lost 10 pounds: see also Louella Parsons 6/29/61); 6/61 trade reports and Hollywood columnists; memos and correspondence, Trilling Collection, USC (studio trying to find Natalie); 6/27/61
Hollywood Reporter

SAW ANALYST EVERY DAY AFTERWARD
: Robert Hyatt to SF; Jeanne Hyatt to SF; 2/62
Motion Picture; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star;
8/75
Cosmopolitan
; 10/79
After Dark;
11/68
Cosmopolitan

KEPT SECRET
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF; Robert Hyatt to
SF; Jeanne Hyatt to SF; Lana Wood to SF; Roderick Mann to SF, 1/20/00; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF

NATALIE DIDN’T WANT DIVORCE
:
3/86 GQ

R.J. WAS DESTROYED
: Prudence Maree to SF

SHOULD HAVE HUNG
: 11/85
Parade

STATEMENT
: Quoted in newspapers and columns on 6/21/61 across the U.S.; 6/21
Daily Variety
(“fooled everyone”); 4/62
Ciné
(“like a bomb”); 6/22
Los Angeles Mirror
(“baffled”); 8/75
Cosmopolitan
(Taylor under sedation); 6/27
Hollywood Reporter
(“come out of hiding”)

CHECKED IN WITH STUDIO, WHEREABOUTS SECRET, FLU
: 6/23 & 6/26 & 6/29/61 Louella Parsons columns,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner;
William Orr to SF, 5/29/99

BEATTY IN NY
: 6/29/61
New York Telegram
(doing retakes and photo shoot); 6/30/61
Daily Variety;
10/61
Movie Life

MIGHT CRACK UP; ALMOST OVER EDGE
: 10/79
After Dark;
“Natalie Wood: Hollywood’s Number One Survivor,” Thomas Thompson,
Look
, April 1979

NEEDED COMPANY AT NIGHT
: 10/79
After Dark;
11/30/81
London Sun
; numerous other sources

CROWLEY TOOK CARE OF NATALIE
: Robert Jiras to SF

NATALIE REQUESTED LEAVE FOR EMOTIONAL REASONS
: 7/3/61 letter from Warners to Natalie, Correspondence and Contracts, Warners Collection, USC; 2/62
Screen Stories
(dropped out of
Lovers
because unfit emotionally)

TOO MANY MEMORIES
: 12/61
Modern Screen

BUMPED INTO BEATTY AT PARTIES
: 7/18/61
Hollywood Reporter
; 7/25
Hollywood Reporter

BEATTY’S ROMANCE WITH COLLINS COOLING, AMUSED HER
: Joan Collins to SF

BEATTY WHAT DR. ORDERED
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF

ANALYST DIED
: 10/79
After Dark;
Leonard Rosenman to SF; 6/69
Screen Parade

FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT
:
Natalie Wood Wagner vs. Robert J. Wagner, Jr
., No. WED 3437, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, 4/16/62; Steve Biegenzahn to SF, 1/8/99; Louella Parsons column,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 8/17/61; 8/24/61
Hollywood Reporter

R.J. TO EUROPE; ANALYSIS; LIFE IN TAILSPIN
:
10/6/86 People;
6/62
Photoplay;
10/9/77
Los Angeles Times Home Magazine;
“Robert Wagner: From ‘Heart’ In 1952 to ‘Hart’ in 1980,” Ken Ferguson,
Photoplay
, August 1980 (RJ therapy for 6 years); 11/85
Parade

COLLINS AND WAGNER FRIENDS
: Joan Collins to SF; 2/62
Motion Picture;
1/30/62
Los Angeles Times