Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0609809571 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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One of the finest, most complete books I have read about the Bruce Morrison One of the finest, most complete books I have read about the life and times of a very beautiful and very talented actress. I could not put it down. The research Ms. Finstad put into this book is beyond belief. It seems that no stone was left unturned and no detail left out of her biography. I loved this book. After reading it I felt as though I knew Natalie Wood better than I eve. Curatory Investigation, Possible Coverup, and a Few Complaints McIntyre While I admit the book was difficult to put down, there were a few complaints. First I believe the term alter-ego was ridiculously overused. Also, a little girl and her mother did not create "Natalie Wood" that identification was invented by a Hollywood studio.This was a very common practice of the studios to provide a new name for actors and actresses.On page 3, Natasha was iden. A Moving Tale Stargazer Noel Coward used to perform a song he wrote called "Don't Put Your Daughter On the Stage Mrs Worthington". It's a pity Natalie Wood's mother didn't take note when she first started coaching her little daughter to be nice to people (men mostly) so they would put little Natasha in movies. There is something obscene about about a child denied a childhood and normal emotional develop
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. 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. Working in films from age 6, 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. (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 coil
Author Suzanne Finstad, a former lawyer, conducted nearly four hundred interviews with Natalie's family, close friends, legendary costars, lovers, film crews, and virtually everyone connected with the investigation of her strange death. We watched her mature on the movie screen before our eyes — in Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, and on and on. But the story of what Natalie endured, of what her life was like when the doors of the soundstages closed, has long been obscured.Natasha is based on years of exhaustive research into Natalie's turbulent life and mysterious drowning in the dark water that was her greatest fear. Natalie Wood was always a star; her mother made sure this was true. Natasha is impossible to put down — it is the definitive biography of Natalie Wood th