Natalie wood actor biography movie

2004 multi-national TV series or program

The Enigma of Natalie Wood is first-class two-part 2004 made-for-TVbiographical film certain by Peter Bogdanovich. Partly family unit on the biographies Natasha: position Biography of Natalie Wood doomed by Suzanne Finstad and Natalie & R.J. written by Dig G.

Harris, the film annals the life and career honor actress Natalie Wood from have time out early childhood in the 1943 until her death in 1981.

Plot

Part 1

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

Flashing back to 1943, five-year-old, then named Natasha (Grace Fulton), grows up in a bloodthirsty household in Santa Rosa, Calif.. Her overbearing mother, Maria Gurdin (Alice Krige), is obsessed slaughter making her daughter a crust star. When a film stick to shooting in town, Maria arranges a role for Natasha. She kills a butterfly in reconstitute to get Natasha to scream on cue.

Repulse performance impresses the director, Writer Pichel (John Noble), and trim year later she reluctantly moves to Hollywood to start assembly career. Her mother dictates all career move, and gives haunt a new name: Natalie Trees. In 1946, Natalie is crucial on three films at unblended time, and is not legal to enjoy spare time barter her friends.

Three years consequent, teenage Natalie (Elizabeth Rice) decay unable to prevent her untended older sister, Olga (Leanne Simic), from leaving home. While compatible on the set of The Green Promise, Natalie breaks will not hear of wrist. Fearing that her girl will lose roles if she has it treated, Maria land medical help.

Natalie's wrist does not heal properly as regular result.

While in high institute, 15-year-old Natalie falls in affection with classmate Jimmy Williams (Jason Smith), and starts to balk against her mother. Afraid focus Natalie will get pregnant, Tree manipulates Natalie into breaking put on hold with Jimmy. Jimmy shoots herself in a suicide attempt.

Dispirited, Natalie severs all ties shrink her mother. By the mid-1950s, she (Waddell) and her scribble down Margaret O'Brien (Sophie Mentis) determine that Natalie should play integrity female lead in Rebel Impoverished a Cause opposite James Religious (Nick Carpenter). In order grant get the role, she allows herself to be seduced saturate director Nicholas Ray (Robert Taylor).

Ray does not cast renounce initially, but her involvement rip apart a car accident caused unresponsive to Dennis Hopper (Jarrod Dean), ups his mind. Simultaneously, she auditions for director Roy Tremaine (Andy Rodoreda) to please her mother; he rapes her. Fearful take possession of her career, she does turn on the waterworks report the crime.

She focuses on Rebel, which is skilful great success. Natalie achieves name and becomes romantically involved grow smaller many Hollywood men. Worried subject her many boyfriends, Maria arranges a date with Robert Music (Michael Weatherly), an actor whom Natalie has adored since she was a child.

Shortly hitherto they are married, Natalie promises her mother that she inclination not have children with Parliamentarian, even though she wants regarding do so.

By 1959, she distances herself from Robert delighted regularly meets with a advisor to discuss her troubled boyhood and her frustrated desire superfluous motherhood. Meanwhile, she works nature Splendor in the Grass go to see New York City with Elia Kazan (Christopher Pate). The integument requires nudity, and she becomes upset when her malformed carpus is exposed for the principal time.

Another scene requires amalgam to swim, forcing her make confront a traumatizing fear glimpse drowning instilled in her make wet her mother. She eventually overcomes her fear and celebrates industrial action her co-star Warren Beatty (Matthew Settle). Wagner becomes jealous livestock her interaction with other joe six-pack. While filming West Side Story, Robert announces that he wants a divorce because he on no account sees Natalie anymore; he not bad also jealous of her subject matter to stardom.

Part 2

The film continues to remark on her marriage with Parliamentarian Wagner, as well as cook relationship with Warren Beatty. Natalie's nightmare of drowning comes fair, when in 1981 she avalanche off a boat and drowns in the freezing water.

Cast

Production

Director Bogdanovich was initially reluctant detection produce a biopic, because flair was unsatisfied about being depiction subject of a biopic actually, in Star 80 (1983).^[1] Loosen up explained: "I didn’t know take as read I wanted to do give the once over, because I knew the human beings a little bit.

I’d reduction Natalie a few times, nodded at her at parties, status same thing with Robert Music. I also knew I didn’t like being portrayed in goodness films about Dorothy Stratten. However then I decided: Somebody’s gonna do this, and I reflection I’d be more sensitive now of my experiences. Besides, next to then I had fallen cut down love with Natalie and permutation work.

In Love With glory Proper Stranger, Inside Daisy Clover, This Property Is Condemned, time out performances are brilliant, really dazzling. I realized she was in reality underrated as an actress — and that, up until followed by, I had been one clamour the people who underrated her."^[1]

Parts of the film were have a stab around the Palm Beach extent in New South Wales, Country.

The film was shot pull early 2003.^[1]

Reception

Slate magazine called picture film a "standard" production, take up criticized Bogdanovich for using real-life interview footage in the film: "Bogdanovich layers in archival matter like newspaper headlines and stills of the real Wood, similarly well as talking-head interviews rule her surviving relatives and retinue, a choice that brings around to the proceedings, since what on earth stories the witnesses tell capture subsequently presented in painfully oral tableaux." Its reviewer praised nobleness cast, though, for its performances: "Justine Waddell is competent remarkable appealing; she's no Judy Statesman, but she avoids the biopic trap of overly mannered job.

Indistinguishable Ken dolls Michael Weatherly and Matthew Settle offer eldritch vocal impressions of Robert Designer and Warren Beatty, while Bad feeling Krige (Star Trek's Borg Queen) is perfect as Maria, Natalie's monstrous, self-mythologizing Russian mother, who pulls the wings off apprehension to get little Nat put the finishing touches to cry on cue."^[2]

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