
Born Natasha Zakharenko Natalie Wood continues to haunt us 20 years after her tragic & mysterious death. Her dark hypnotic beauty & passionate performances made her a movie star legend appearing in over fifty films including West Side Story & Rebel Without a Cause for which she was Oscar nominated. The story of her life is tinged with tragedy & drama. Pushed by her domineering frustrated mother
- an alcoholic determined to make her child a star at whatever cost Natalie grew up fast
- lonely & a misfit uncertain of her identity. At fifteen she had embarked on an affair with a director 30 years her senior she was brutally raped by a leading Hollywood star when she was sixteen -an attack which her mother forbade her to report. Her leading men frequently became her lovers including Elvis Presley James Dean Warren Beatty & the real love of her life Robert Wagner whom she eventually married twice. Her fear of being alone & the years of exploitation & abuse led to an addiction to sleeping pills & several suicide attempts & for the first time this book looks at evidence yet to be published surrounding her premature & controversial death
- drowning at the age of 43. Suzanne Finstad has spent 3 years researching this the first substantive biography of Natalie Wood conducting over 400 interviews with friends family lovers co-stars & the police officials who investigated her death.