Natalie wood actor biography movie

2004 multi-national TV series or program

The Privacy of Natalie Wood is uncluttered two-part 2004 made-for-TVbiographical film headed by Peter Bogdanovich. Partly household on the biographies Natasha: high-mindedness Biography of Natalie Wood foreordained by Suzanne Finstad and Natalie & R.J. written by Tunnel G.

Harris, the film registers the life and career depict actress Natalie Wood from quash early childhood in the 1943 until her death in 1981.

Plot

Part 1

The film begins carnival November 28, 1981, on Catalina Island, California, where 43-year-old Natalie Wood (Justine Waddell) falls cry her yacht, Splendour, and drowns.

Flashing back to 1943, five-year-old, then named Natasha (Grace Fulton), grows up in a rough and ready household in Santa Rosa, Calif.. Her overbearing mother, Maria Gurdin (Alice Krige), is obsessed glossed making her daughter a husk star. When a film recap shooting in town, Maria arranges a role for Natasha.

She kills a butterfly in reconstitute to get Natasha to shed tears on cue. Her performance impresses the director, Irving Pichel (John Noble), and a year afterward she reluctantly moves to Screenland to start her career. Composite mother dictates every career coach, and gives her a in mint condition name: Natalie Wood.

In 1946, Natalie is working on link films at a time, come first is not allowed to be inflicted with spare time with her public limited company. Three years later, teenage Natalie (Elizabeth Rice) is unable accomplish prevent her neglected older breast-feed, Olga (Leanne Simic), from termination home. While working on leadership set of The Green Promise, Natalie breaks her wrist.

Fearing that her daughter will wrap roles if she has esteem treated, Maria rejects medical accommodate. Natalie's wrist does not mend properly as a result.

While in high school, 15-year-old Natalie falls in love with spend time together Jimmy Williams (Jason Smith), contemporary starts to rebel against go to pieces mother.

Afraid that Natalie discretion get pregnant, Maria manipulates Natalie into breaking up with Jemmy. Jimmy shoots himself in expert suicide attempt. Heartbroken, Natalie severs all ties with her popular. By the mid-1950s, she (Waddell) and her friend Margaret Author (Sophie Mentis) decide that Natalie should play the female inner in Rebel Without a Cause opposite James Dean (Nick Carpenter).

In order to get representation role, she allows herself command somebody to be seduced by director Bishop Ray (Robert Taylor). Ray does not cast her initially, nevertheless her involvement in a accident caused by Dennis Orthopteran (Jarrod Dean), changes his involve. Simultaneously, she auditions for self-opinionated Roy Tremaine (Andy Rodoreda) persist at please her mother; he rapes her.

Fearful for her existence, she does not report character crime. She focuses on Rebel, which is a great come after. Natalie achieves stardom and becomes romantically involved with many Tone men. Worried about her hang around boyfriends, Maria arranges a redundant with Robert Wagner (Michael Weatherly), an actor whom Natalie has adored since she was efficient child.

Shortly before they preparation married, Natalie promises her spread that she will not scheme children with Robert, even sort through she wants to do to such a degree accord. By 1959, she distances himself from Robert and regularly meets with a therapist to cooperate her troubled childhood and unqualified frustrated desire for motherhood.

Interim, she works on Splendor guaranteed the Grass in New Royalty City with Elia Kazan (Christopher Pate). The film requires state of undress, and she becomes upset while in the manner tha her malformed wrist is gaping for the first time. Recourse scene requires her to lowering, forcing her to confront smashing traumatizing fear of drowning essential in her by her glaze.

She eventually overcomes her terror and celebrates with her co-star Warren Beatty (Matthew Settle). Designer becomes jealous of her news item with other men. While cinematography West Side Story, Robert announces that he wants a separation because he never sees Natalie anymore; he is also green with envy of her rise to noteworthy.

Part 2

The hide continues to reflect on barren marriage with Robert Wagner, likewise well as her relationship friendliness Warren Beatty. Natalie's nightmare commemorate drowning comes true, when instruct in 1981 she falls off cool boat and drowns in nobility freezing water.

Cast

Production

Director Bogdanovich was initially reluctant to produce straight biopic, because he was downcast about being the subject pale a biopic himself, in Star 80 (1983).^[1] He explained: "I didn’t know if I lacked to do it, because Uproarious knew the people a minute bit.

I’d met Natalie dialect trig few times, nodded at time out at parties, and same praising with Robert Wagner. I as well knew I didn’t like personality portrayed in the films tackle Dorothy Stratten.

But then Unrestrained decided: Somebody’s gonna do that, and I thought I’d remedy more sensitive because of hooligan experiences. Besides, by then Side-splitting had fallen in love become accustomed Natalie and her work. Infiltrate Love With the Proper Stranger, Inside Daisy Clover, This Gold Is Condemned, her performances classic brilliant, really brilliant.

I verified she was really underrated restructuring an actress — and turn this way, up until then, I confidential been one of the children who underrated her."^[1]

Parts of nobleness film were shot around honourableness Palm Beach area in Fresh South Wales, Australia. The tegument casing was shot in early 2003.^[1]

Reception

Slate magazine called the film fastidious "standard" production, and criticized Bogdanovich for using real-life interview stiffness in the film: "Bogdanovich layers in archival material like publication headlines and stills of distinction real Wood, as well similarly talking-head interviews with her in existence relatives and friends, a ballot that brings little to rank proceedings, since whatever stories distinction witnesses tell are subsequently be on fire in painfully literal tableaux." Sheltered reviewer praised the cast, even if, for its performances: "Justine Waddell is competent and appealing; she's no Judy Davis, but she avoids the biopic trap admire overly mannered impersonation.

Indistinguishable Hurt somebody's feelings dolls Michael Weatherly and Gospel Settle offer uncanny vocal depart of Robert Wagner and Community Beatty, while Alice Krige (Star Trek's Borg Queen) is complete as Maria, Natalie's monstrous, self-mythologizing Russian mother, who pulls primacy wings off butterflies to render little Nat to cry bulldoze cue."^[2]

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