Wood's will designated Wagner as executor and trustee of the funds she left to her daughters, as well as heir to half her estate. This estate planning was straightforward and even sensible at the time, because Wagner and Wood were married and had a blended family of three children.
Natalie Wood was Hollywood royalty who tragically drowned after a long night of partying with her husband, Robert Wagner, and actor Christopher Walken.
Various explanations have been offered as to what happened to the 43-year-old actress. In his original 1981 autopsy report, Los Angeles County Coroner Thomas Noguchi stated Wood drowned after boarding the dinghy to get away from the arguing Walken and Wagner.
At 93, Robert Wagner Breaks His Silence on Natalie Wood’s Death
When did Natalie have her baby?
The Bachelor Nation alum and fiancée Natalie Joy welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, the couple announced Feb 5. "River Rose Viall, 2-2-2024," they captioned a series of sweet shots in a joint Instagram post.
Her father had violent alcoholic outbursts and her authoritarian mother quickly drove the child to become the family breadwinner. She is also said to have filled Natalie with a fear of dark water after a fortune-teller predicted she would die from drowning.
She was about to marry her longtime fiancé and frequent costar, William Powell, when she became seriously ill. Diagnosed with uremic poisoning, she died at age 26. Her final film, Saratoga (1937), was released posthumously, with bit player Mary Dees standing in for Harlow in several scenes.
Did Robert Wagner have children with Natalie Wood?
His second child, another daughter, Courtney, was born in 1974 from his third marriage but second to Natalie Wood. Robert Wagner also became the legal guardian to Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson who was 11-years-old when Natalie Wood died.
Death. On November 29, 1981, Wood died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 43 during the making of Brainstorm. She had been on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board her husband Robert Wagner's 58-foot (18 m) motoryacht, Splendour.
Who else was on the boat when Natalie Wood drowned?
For nearly four decades, mystery and speculation have swirled around the death of the actress who had been nominated for three Academy Awards and appeared in "West Side Story" and "Rebel Without a Cause." She was on a yacht with Wagner, actor Christopher Walken and Davern on Thanksgiving weekend of 1981.
There is one scene where a young Natalie Wood is supposed to run across a bridge. She was told that the bridge would collapse after she got to the other side, but there was an accident and the bridge collapsed while she was still on it. She broke her wrist and it never healed properly.
She began appearing in movies at age five and received her first credit, as Natalie Wood, in the drama Tomorrow Is Forever (1946). She won particular acclaim for her role as a precocious Santa Claus skeptic in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) when she was only eight.
Natalie declined the role of Judith Anderson, for personal reasons. Natalie turned down the role of 'Tina' and accepted the role of 'Carol' in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" instead. Around 1966, Natalie Wood was attached to star in a biopic of Frances Farmer. The project then stalled and wasn't filmed until the 1980s.
Nov. 28, 1981: “Wood and her then-spouse Robert Wagner boarded their yacht with Christopher Walken and boat captain Dennis Tavern.” Nov. 28, 1981: “Wood went missing at 11:05 p.m. that evening.”
She made her film debut in The Searchers as a child actress and later achieved notability for playing Sandy Webber on the TV series Peyton Place and Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. Her older sister was Natalie Wood.
During this dark time in her life, Natalie put on 20 pounds while she was still with Mike. Once their relationship ended and Natalie moved to Florida, then to Los Angeles, she has been working on herself and losing weight.
Natalie's first husband Zenon Pierides was someone her mother approved of and wanted her to stay with, but Natalie left him when he filed for bankruptcy.
Then, in Season 9, Natalie, played by Mindy Cohn, lost her virginity in an episode titled “The First Time.” “I asked to be written out of that episode,” Whelchel says. It was the first, and only, episode she missed in all nine seasons of the show.
