NATALIE’S REAL NAME: Birth certificate #4866, County of San Francisco
MARIA WAS COLORFUL: Lois Tenney to SF, 6/13/99; Constantine Liuzunie et al. to SF, 7/10/99; Shirley Moore Mann to SF, 2/2/00; Phyllis Quinn to SF, 4/28/99; Randal Malone to SF, 1/25/00
DEVIOUS: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99 & 8/24/99
OBSESSED W/NATALIE: Phyllis Quinn to SF; Lana Wood to SF; Shirley Mann to SF; etc.
NOT SURE WHERE BORN: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 7/11/99; Phyllis Quinn to SF
BORN BARNAUL: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Kalia’s birth certificate; ship’s log
BORN TOMSK: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell, 1/10/87, for Star Mothers, Georgia Holt and Phyllis Quinn with Sue Russell, Simon and Schuster, 1988; Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister, Lana Wood and Jake Enterprises Ltd., G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984
PALATIAL ESTATE: Shirley Mann to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF; Randal Malone to SF, 1/25/00
YOUNG ACTOR: Randal Malone to SF
MARIA’S GENEALOGY: Constantine Liuzunie to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; etc.
“CLOSE RELATIONS” TO: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell, 1/10/87, for Star Mothers
BORN MARIA KULEVA: Constantine Liuzunie to SF; Marriage and death certificates of Maria Gurdin
SOMEONE A COUNTESS: Constantine Liuzunie to SF
RUSSIAN SCHOLAR: Professor Stefan Frank, UCLA Russian History Department, to SF, 2/8/00
PARENTS TOOK HER TO CHINA: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
KNEW HOW TO SPEAK FRENCH: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
KALIA COULDN’T: Constantine Liuzunie to SF
NAT TRIBUTE: A Tribute to a Very Special Lady, KCOP-TV, written and directed by Gary Davis, produced by Peter Schlesinger and Harry Kooperstein
FOUND ON HILLSIDE: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
MARIA LAUGHED: Shirley Mann to SF
HOGWASH: Constantine Liuzunie to SF
LANA DIDN’T BELIEVE: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
BORN IN DACHA: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
FAMILY PHOTO: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Phyllis Quinn to SF; Constantine Liuzunie to SF
TWINS: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell for Star Mothers
SHE BELIEVED IT: Randal Malone to SF
WEIGHED 2 POUNDS: Phyllis Quinn to SF; Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell, 1/10/87
EYES LIKE FATHER’S: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell, 1/10/87
GRAY-BLUE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
BLACK AND BEADY: Sue Russell to SF, 4/30/99
SWORE/JEWELRY: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
KEPT BOOKS, WORSHIPPED: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn, 11/85
KALIA SUPPORTED: Constantine and George Liuzunie et al. to SF
FOOTNOTE: RUSSIAN SCHOLAR: Professor Stefan Frank to SF
TOWN NAMED: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell, 1/10/87
ARRANGED MARRIAGE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
DIDN’T COOK: Constantine Liuzunie to SF
FAMILY HISTORY: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Constantine Liuzunie to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
SCHOLAR: Professor Frank to SF
PROMISE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
DEMENTED: Nina Arrabit to SF, 1/27/00
QIQIHAR ANGELS: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Shirley Mann to SF
HARBIN LIKE RUSSIA, “NICE” STREET: Professor Olga Yokoyama to SF
YOUNG BOYS, GREAT DANCER: Randal Malone to SF
CHURCH TO EYE BOYS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
BALLET: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
LOOKING IN MIRROR: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
GYPSY SAID SHE’D DROWN: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF, 2/24/99; Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
GYPSY SAID 2ND CHILD A BEAUTY: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF, 2/24/99
TATULIAN, STRICT, GIRLFRIENDS DESIRED HIM: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
ELOPED, LED REGIMENT, LADIES’ MAN: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
HAD ABORTIONS: Randal Malone to SF
CHILDBIRTH EXPERIENCE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell
OVSANNA BAPTISM: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
MOVE TO AMERICA: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
ALEXEI’S VOYAGE: U.S. customs records/ship’s logs
UNDERWEIGHT: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
BEER AND MILK: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
BOOKKEEPING, BREAST-FED: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
MARIA’S VOYAGE: U.S. customs records/ship’s logs
MISTRESS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Olga Viripaeff to SF; Shirley Mann to SF
ADDRESS, LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: OlgaViripaeff to SF; ship’s records; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
HALLUCINOGENIC: Nina Arrabit to SF
MOVIE CRAZY: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
DEALT IN ILLUSION; BELIEVE IN THE BEST: Randal Malone to SF
LEFT IN PARK, BALLET: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99
SOCIAL CLIMBER, “TOOK” A DRESS, “NOT TWO PENNIES”: Nina Arrabit to SF
PAID DRESSMAKER, FELL ASLEEP: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99
WANTED TO BE ACTRESS: Josephine Paulson via Lois Tenney to SF, 6/13/99
READ PALMS/TAROT: Lois Tenney & Olga Viripaeff to SF
ALWAYS INTO: Lois Tenney to SF, 6/13/99
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE: Lois Tenney to SF, Olga Viripaeff to SF, Shirley Mann to SF, Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn, Josephine Paulson to Lois Penney to SF
CAPTAIN HER PASSION: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Shirley Mann to SF
NICK HANDSOME/WANTED HIM: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
MUSIA PET NAME: Natalie Wood’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin, 11/7/80, Westwood Village Chapel
WON PRIZES: Dmitri Zakharenko to SF, 6/27/99
NICK VIOLENT: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99, Shirley Mann to SF, Dmitri Zakharenko to SF
ZAKHARENKO HISTORY: Dmitri Zakharenko to SF
LIVED WITH NICK: San Francisco city directories, 1936–1937; Olga Viripaeff to SF
TATULOV DIVORCE: Marie/Maria Tatuloff v. Alexander Tatuloff, Case No. 264481, Superior Court of California, San Francisco County
INFATUATED WITH GEORGE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Shirley Mann to SF
NICK BELIEVED STERILE: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Star Mothers
WHY MARIA CHOSE NICK: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
GAVE HER NATALIE: Randal Malone to SF
CHOSE LOYS FOR MONEY: Lana Wood to SF, 9/13/99
STAGE-MANAGED: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
CHINA DOLL: Nina Arrabit to SF
NAMED FOR NATALIA, LOPATINS: Natalia Shabalina Bazigin to SF, 1/27/00
NO MONEY, BROUGHT THEM LUCK: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
WAGNER SAID: Robert Wagner, Lifetime’s “Intimate Portrait of Natalie Wood”
RAISED HER TO BE STAR: “Their Mother Neglected Lana,” Harriman Jamis, Photoplay, 8/67
BREAST-FED HER AT MOVIES: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
WORE MASKS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
GOOFY, BOUGHT CARRIAGE: Nina Arrabit to SF
SO BRAVE: Natalie Wood’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin
RUSSIAN EYES: George Segal in “The Last American Girl,” The Movies, 310 Madison Ave., NY, The Movies, 10/83, vol. 1, #4
PAPA, MEELAYA, LOVED TO READ: Natalie’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin
CHRISTENING GOWN: Natalia Shabalina Bazigin to SF
IGNORED NICK AND OLGA: Olga Viripaeff to SF, Nina Arrabit to SF, Liuzunies to SF, 8/67 Photoplay
COULD TAKE CARE OF SELF: 8/67 Photoplay
BABYSAT: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
READ FAIRY STORIES: “Natasha & Natalie,” Barbara Giasone, Biarritz, July 1980
SMART LITTLE THING: Josephine Paulson to Lois Tenney to SF
NATASHA WAS BRILLIANT: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
SPOKE “AMERICAN”: “6-Year-Old Siren,” Connee Curtis, Motion Picture, (circa July) 1945
NO BABY TALK, CHANGED NAME, CURTSY, FOUL LANGUAGE, UNAFFECTIONATE, MARIA SET HIM OFF: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
STRICT EUROPEAN: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Dick Moore, Harper & Row, NY, 1984
CHILDREN IN CORNER: “Natalie Wood’s Secrets for Blending a Busy Career and a Bustling Family,” Marcia Borie, Motion Picture, 12/77
MARIA UNDEMONSTRATIVE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 8/13/99
NICK LOVED LIFE, ADVENTURES, COMPLICATED: Natalie’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin
BROKE BALALAIKA: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
OLGA BELIEVED: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99 [Dmitri Zakharenko, Nick’s brother, recalls their grandfather dying of natural causes during the revolution]
HATED CONFRONTATION: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
“PRETEND” HER FAVORITE WORD: 7/45 Motion Picture
PLAYLETS: Lois Penney to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99, Constantine Liuzunie to SF
PUT ON SKITS: Olga Viripaeff to SF, Lois Tenney to SF
SCRAPBOOK, TAUGHT HAND MOVEMENTS: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
WHEN WE WALKED: “What Ever Happened To Baby Natalie?” Joseph Lewis, Cosmopolitan, November 1968
BRAINWASHED NATASHA: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF, 2/24/99
POSED FOR CAMERA: “The Taming Of The Shrewd,” Aljean Meltsir, Coronet, February 1960; “Natalie Wood: Star Into Actress,” Richard Lemmons, Newsweek, 2/26/62
REMEMBERED FROM TWO: “Don’t Sell Natalie Short,” Richard Gehman, Photoplay, September 1957
EASY WITH HER, GOT PIANO: 8/67 Photoplay
SHE WAS DIFFERENT: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
MARIA KEPT SECRET: Lana Wood to SF, Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
MOTHER THOUGHT SHE’D DROWN: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 8/13/99
MARIA SAID SHE WAS AFRAID OF DARK WATERS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
NATASHA WAS AFRAID TO WASH HER HAIR: Maria Gurdin to Randal Malone
MOTHER CREATED AN IMPRESSION, CONTRIBUTED TO THE FEAR: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
CREATED PARANOIA IN HER: Natasha Gregson Wagner on “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood,” Lifetime
NICK WOULD NOT LET HER IN CROWDS: Shirley Mann to SF
THOUGHT JAPANESE WOULD BOMB S.F., MOVED TO SUNNYVALE: Nina Arrabit to SF
LIVED IN PROJECTS: Lois Tenney to SF
NICK WORKED AT SHIPYARD: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/9; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
MARIA’S HOUSE PURCHASE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99 and 5/24/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
MARIA FOLLOWED THE CREW, NATASHA WENT ALONG, GOT SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, MARIA WAS FUN: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99, 5/24/99
NATASHA ALWAYS ACTING: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
EDNA MAY DAY: “10-Year-Old S.R. Girl Gets Chance at Role in Movies!” Santa Rosa Press Democrat: 7/28/42; “City Plans Welcome to ‘Cinderella Girl’ ” 10/18/42; “ ‘Edna May Day’ Will Be Observed Here,” 10/24/42; “City Welcomes Child Actress with Rally,” 10/25/42
“STANDING ON CORNER,” “TOUCH MY DAD”: Edna May Wonacott Green to SF, 2/4/00
STAGE MOTHER, PLAYED HUSBAND, WATCHED HER, WATER FEAR, CALLED BUTCH, PLOT TO POISON: Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99 and 11/24/99
NEVER PHYSICAL, TAUGHT HER EMBROIDERY: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
PICKED CHERRIES: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99 and 8/13/99
GOT DRUNK, BETTER HE BE SOMEPLACE ELSE: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY: Outtakes of Robert Blake interview, “E True Hollywood Story: Natalie Wood”
KIDS LOVED HER: Ethel Polhemus to SF, 2/2/00
PITIED FISH: 2/26/62 Newsweek
PUPPY KILLED: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99
GIRLS STOOD ON CORNERS: Edna May Wonacott Green to SF
POWDERED HER HAIR: “Natalie Wood: A Bride Again,” Mike Connolly, Screen Stories, April 1964
GOT INTO THE MOOD: “Hello, Natalie Wood!” Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr, Vogue, June 1962
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: “Movie Stars to Arrive in S.R. Today,” Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 6/13/43
PICHEL SAW “SHADOW”: Natalie Wood: A Biography in Pictures, Christopher Nickens, Dolphin, 1986
BASED ON NOVEL: “ ‘Happy Land,’ Second Movie Made Here,” Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 1/22/44
KNOWN FOR ANTI-NAZI: 10/54 Films in Review
DESTINED TO BE MAGICAL, DUTIFUL: “Natalie Wood: Rebel at 20,” Mark Alan, Screen Parade, June 1969; 11/68 Cosmopolitan
PICHEL NOTICED CHILD, TRAGIC EXAMPLE, ENCOUNTER WITH NATASHA: “Modern Pied Piper,” Faith Service, Silver Screen, February 1947
MAKE IMPRESSION, MARIA ASKED HOW IT WORKED, NATALIE DESCRIBED IT, GO SING: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
SANG “IN MY ARMS”: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
KNEW RUSSIAN, FELL IN LOVE, OLGA TAUGHT HAND MOVEMENT: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 1/6/99, 5/7/99, 7/11/99
THOSE EYES…: 2/60 Coronet
IF NICE TO MEN: June 1969 Screen Parade
PICHEL SPOTTED HER IN CROWD: Phyllis Quinn to SF
NATASHA JUMPED IN LAP: Shirley Mann to SF; 9/57 Photoplay; “Seventeen, Seventeen,” Jane Wilkie, Modern Screen, January 1956; “We Solved the Natalie Wood Mystery,” Claire Sills, Movie Show, November 1957
NICK DIDN’T OBJECT: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
MARIA MADE DECISIONS: 8/67 Photoplay
DIDN’T SEEM EXCITED: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99; Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99
SEE IT IN HER FACE: Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99
WASN’T SHY: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
EDWIN RAN OFF, LIKE A SHADOW: Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99
WITH TEARS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
DRESSED IN TRAILER, PAIRED HER: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
ANN PICKED HER UP, MARIA KEPT HER UNDERFOOT: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
PICHEL FELL IN LOVE: 2/47 Silver Screen
“HE SAID TO MY MOTHER…”: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
OLGA’S MEMORY OF PICHEL: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
WANTED TO BUY NATASHA: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell for Star Mothers, November 1985
PICHEL’S CHILDREN: Estate of Irving Pichel, Los Angeles County, 7/19/54
PICHEL’S SONS’ ACCOUNTS: SF interviews with Pichel W. Pichel 3/29/99, Dr. Julian Pichel 4/2/99, Marlowe Pichel 3/29/99
MRS. PICHEL RESENTED MOVIE INDUSTRY: Aaron Pichel to SF, 4/2/99 & 10/18/99, Dr. Julian Pichel to SF, 4/2/99
PICHEL IN MAGAZINE: 2/47 Silver Screen
FABRICATION: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
PROMISED HER PART: September 1957 Photoplay
WARNED MARIA: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; 2/47 Silver Screen
BIG DAY: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
NEVER MENTIONED MOVIES, PLAYED IN YARD: Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99
MOTHER EXCITED, OLGA CARED LESS: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
VOLUMINOUS, GIFTS: 2/47 Silver Screen
TOLD NEIGHBORS, MARIE EMBARRASSED: Shirley Mann to SF
CUT SCENE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
SHE WAS GOING TO OFFER: Lana Wood, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood,” Lifetime
NO EVIDENCE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99; Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99
WALKED TO JOB, TOOK GIRLS, WENT TO CHURCH: Olga Viripaeff to SF
STUDIOS WERE GOLD: “Natalie At Ease,” Roy Loynd, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 7/23/67; 2/26/62 Newsweek
IDENTIFIED STARS, INVENTED A GAME: September 1957 Photoplay; 1/56 Modern Screen
MAYBE KNEW PICHEL, GYPSY MAGIC, GOT HIM TO SELL: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
HOUSE GONNA SELL, GOT THREE TIMES: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
SOLD HOUSE LIKE WONACOTTS, ALL WENT TOGETHER: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99, 5/24/99, 7/11/99; (Gurdins moved year to LA year before Tomorrow Is Forever): 1/56 Modern Screen
DEED TO HUMBOLDT: Volume 611 of Official Records, Page 70, Sonoma County
ARTICLE: Santa Rosa newspaper clipping from scrapbook of the Canevari family
FELT BURDEN: Lana Wood to SF; numerous published Natalie Wood interviews
KILLED ME: Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99
SORRY MOVED, HER DESTINY: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 8/13/99
DESTINED FOR THIS LIFE: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
DROVE ALL NIGHT, HITCHHIKER: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 7/11/99
SOB ACT: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
PICHEL DISMAYED: 2/47 Silver Screen
HARD MOVE: Lois Tenney to SF
EXPECTED VELVET: 7/23/67 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
PHOTOS: Letter with photos from Natasha Gurdin to Edwin Canevari dated 9/30/44
READ TRADES, TRIED FOR DIFFERENT THINGS: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 8/13/99, 5/24/99
REJECTION: “I’m Going to Live My Life,” John Hallowell, New York Times, 3/9/69
PRAYED: “Bride-to-Be Natalie Wood Tells All,” Jon Lawton, Motion Picture, March 1964
CARPENTER THROUGH PICHEL, NICK MADE SWING: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
NICK GOT CONSTRUCTION JOB IN STUDIO: January 1956 Modern Screen
MOTHER GOT EXCITED: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
PICHEL WAS DEPRESSED: 2/47 Silver Screen
BE ACTRESS, WAITING FOR BREAK: “How Eight Famous Stars Got Their First Acting Job,” Movie Life, October 1970
TOLD LANA: Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister
SCHEMED HOW TO STAND OUT: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
DRESSED THE WAY SHE PLAYS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
PICHEL ADVISED HER: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn, Shirley Mann to SF
IMITATED O’BRIEN: Margaret O’Brien to SF, 1/26/00; Randal Malone to SF, 1/25/00
FLAWLESS: studio biographies of Natalie Wood, Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn et al.
NOT VERY GOOD, PICHEL RELIEVED: 2/47 Silver Screen
PROUD SHE HADN’T CRIED, A COMMOTION, COUNTED CRYING SCENES: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
MARIA WAS UPSET, GOT NATASHA TO CRY, SEEMED TO GET THROUGH IT: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
MARIA HAD NATASHA CALL: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; 2/47 Silver Screen
TOOK OUT OF SCHOOL, TOLD HER ABOUT DOG: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
BUTTERFLY: Robert Redford to SF, 2/16/00
TEARS FROM DEPTH, BROKE HIS HEART, SHE WAS IN THE MOVIES: 2/47 Silver Screen
NEVER BE THE SAME/CRYING: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99; “Natalie Wood Hits Promo Trail,” Mary Blume, Los Angeles Times, 8/2/70; “Don’t Sell Natalie Short—Part II,” Richard Gehman, Photoplay, September 1957; Lana Wood to SF
MOTHER LIVED THROUGH HER: “Natalie, More Than the Hollywood Stereotype,” Anthony Korba, Orange Coast, October 1979; Natalie Wood interview excerpt on “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
MARIE’S DREAM: Randal Malone to SF
MOVIE CONTRACT/SCREEN NAME: Case #503232, In the Matter of the Contract between International Pictures Inc. and Natasha Gurdin, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, filed 6/22/45
READ SMALL PRINT: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
NAME CHANGE: Natalie Wood excerpt on “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 10/79 Orange Coast; 7/80 Biarritz
WOOD WALKED BY: “Hollywood Throwback,” Bill Davidson, Saturday Evening Post, 4/7/62
HATED IT, “DON’T FRET”: “A Star Is Born Again,” Bob Lardine, New York Daily News Sunday News Magazine, 2/11/79
MUD ADMONISHED HER: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; 6/69 Screen Parade
BE NICE TO DIRECTOR: 6/69 Screen Parade
WIND-UP DOLL: Pauline Kael, as quoted in “Natalie Wood,” Kevin Lewis, Films in Review, 1986
I HAD TO DO IT: Natalie Wood as excerpted on AMC Hollywood Real to Reel, “Hollywood Legends: Starring Natalie Wood”
NO VOICE COACH: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
IQ 150: Robert Blake outtakes
MEMORIZED EVERYONE’S PARTS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
MEMORIZED QUICKLY, EXPLAINED IN LANGUAGE SHE UNDERSTOOD: “Boy Meets Girl,” Richard Baxter, Seventeen, January 1964
MOTHER DID SOMETHING: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
PLAYING HOUSE: “A Last Visit with Natalie Wood,” Dick Moore, McCall’s, October 1984
FEELINGS SUBMERGED: “Natalie Wood & Robert Wagner,” Marshall Berges, Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, October 9, 1977
YOU CAN’T MAKE HIM: 2/47 Silver Screen
ACCOUNTS OF TOMORROW FILMING: USC Special Collections, Tomorrow Is Forever file, esp. Daily Production Report
EXPECTED TINSEL AND GLITTER: 2/26/62 Newsweek; “Care and Feeding of Child Stars,” Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times, 5/26/65
FIRST LEADING MAN, IN LOVE, BLEW HIS TAKES, EYES REFLECTED TRAGEDY: Orson Welles, “Tribute to a Very Special Lady”
HELPFUL TO HER: Natalie Wood interview excerpt on AMC’s Hollywood Real to Reel
TERRIFYING: “New Movie Moppet,” Life, 11/26/45
WELLES HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE: 2/26/62 Newsweek
BOOMING VOICE, TAUGHT MAGIC: October 1984 McCall’s
KNOW LINES, TERRIFIED TO CRY, GOT HER WORKED UP, SHORTY, COLBERT, WELLES CHANGED LIGHTING, MUD GOT HER WORKED UP: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
PERFECTIONISM: Olga Viripaeff to SF
BEST AT SAD CHARACTERS: 6/69 Screen Parade
ACTS FROM HEART; COLBERT SAID SMART: “Natalie Wood: Teenager with a Past,” Movie Life, July 1956
THE WAY IT WORKS: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
I HAD TO TAKE: Natalie Wood on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, 2/14/80
HORRENDOUS STORIES: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
TAUGHT MAGIC TRICKS: San Francisco Chronicle, 3/22/46; “Natalie Wood Makes It As Actress,” Bruce Bahrenburg, Newark Sunday News, 6/15/69; Erskine Johnson column, Los Angeles Mirror-News, 7/7/56
LOVED GROWN-UPS: 3/64 Motion Picture
WATCHING TO BE BETTER: November 1957 Movie Show
COLBERT KIND, MATERNAL: Claudette Colbert unsourced biography, Academy Colbert collection
LETTER TO EDWIN: Letter and photo from Natasha Gurdin to Edwin Canevari received 5/22/45
I INVENTED HER: Maria Gurdin to Randal Malone
FAN MAGAZINE: (circa July) 1945 Motion Picture
FRIGHTENED TO BE ALONE, MUD NEVER LET HER: “Natalie Wood’s Own Story,” Patricia Reynolds, Pageant, July 1971; Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister
KIDNAPPED: 6/69 Screen Parade; 11/68 Cosmopolitan
DANGEROUS: 10/84 McCall’s
DREADED BEDTIME, STORYBOOK DOLLS, CALLED “FATHER,” LIVED IN IMAGINATION, BEST FRIEND PICHEL: 6/45 Motion Picture
DOLLS KEPT HER COMPANY: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
TALKED TO HER DOLLS: 11/68 Cosmopolitan
SOLE COMPANION: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 7/11/99; 6/45 Motion Picture
FANTASIZED RUSSIA: 7/80 Biarritz; “Natalie Wood’s Russian Roots,” Roderick Mann, Los Angeles Times, 2/15/79
BIRTHDAY PARTY: “Am I Too Young to Be a Good Mother?” Frank Collins, Motion Picture, July 1958
ENAMORED OF: Mrs. Gregory (Lily) Muradian to SF, 2/9/99
PERFUME: 7/7/56 Los Angeles Mirror-News
11/26/45 Life
TO BACK UP THE LIE: Maria Gurdin to Shirley Mann to SF; Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell, 11/85; Maria Gurdin to Randal Malone
STORY LANA WAS TOLD: Lana Wood to Dennis Bartok at the American Cinematheque Tribute to Natalie Wood, Hollywood, California, 9/2/99
GENIUS, FOOT IN THE DOOR: Randal Malone to SF
PUT A LOT INTO HER: Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
DECIDED TO WORK; NOT EXCITED ABOUT MOVIES: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
NO MATTER WHAT: “Just for Variety,” Army Archerd, Daily Variety, 11/8/78
DEFINED ACTING, BULGING CALVES: 6/45 Motion Picture
MARIA’S STORY: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell and Phyllis Quinn for Star Mothers, 11/85
GAIL REMEMBERED HER: Gail Lumet Buckley letter to SF
TREAT TO GO TO MOVIE, BIT HER CHEEK, WET HER PANTS: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
NATALIE SAW HER PARENTS AS GODS: 11/68 Cosmopolitan; 6/69 Screen Parade
94 STARS: 2/60 Coronet
PLAYED MAKING MOVIES: 11/57 Movie Show
NICK WAS PROUD: Dmitri Zakharenko to SF
GOSSIP IN SAN FRANCISCO: Nina Arrabit to SF
NICK WAS UNHAPPY: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
RUBBED OIL, SAID NO: 8/67 Photoplay
TOLD HER SHE WAS FRAIL, SHE IMAGINED ILLNESSES: 3/62 Photoplay
WOULDN’T LET HER RUN: Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
SO OVERPROTECTED: “Natalie’s Happy To Be Back In Films,” Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, 10/30/69
MISPLACED FEAR, CHILD ABUSE: Robert Blake outtakes
NICK HELD A KNIFE, MARIA IN CONTACT WITH CAPTAIN, MARIA WAS AFRAID: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
GOSSIP ABOUT HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER: Nina Arrabit to SF
MEAN DRUNK: Lana Wood to SF, 8/24/99
AIRPLANE FEAR: Robert B. Jiras to SF, 9/16/99; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; various Natalie Wood published interviews
PULLED PIGTAILS, AFRAID: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; 8/2/70 Los Angeles Times
GABRIELLA, THRILLED BY SNOW: 7/56 Movie Life; Hollywood Top 10 Scandals 1963
SELDOM NEGATIVE, WOULDN’T WANT HER OWN CHILD: “Natalie Wood: A Young Wife’s Tragic Story”, Modern Screen, December 1961; 4/64 Screen Stories
RELINQUISHED LANA TO OLGA: Lana Wood to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF; Constantine Liuzunie to SF; Randal Malone to SF; 8/67 Photoplay
RUMORS SVETLANA WAS OLGA’S BABY: Olga Viripaeff to SF, Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister
IT WAS THE LAW; “THEIR MOTHER NEGLECTED LANA…”: 8/67 Photoplay
NON-PERSON, THINKS SHE LIVED THERE, NO GODPARENT OR CURTSYING: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
PRESENTED NATALIE WOOD: 3/22/46 San Francisco Chronicle
MAGAZINE PRAISED NATALIE: Tomorrow Is Forever, Look, 3/19/46
OLGA WORRIED ABOUT GRADES, FIRED NANNY: Olga Viripaeff to SF, Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn, Lana Wood to SF
DAYS CONSISTED OF DRINKING; MARIA WAS UNHAPPY, SHE’LL SING: Lana Wood to SF, 8/24/99, 8/19/99
NATASHA FELT GUILTY: 3/79 Saturday Evening Post; 10/79 Orange Coast
MARIA’S COMPANION POSITS: Randal Malone to SF
EATS YOUR HEART: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 4/5/46
BRENT TOOK HER TO FAMOUS ARTISTS: 9/57 Photoplay; 8/67 Photoplay
CONTRACT WITH FAMOUS ARTISTS: Case #503232, Los Angeles Superior Court
SHE’D STILL READ THE TRADES; OLGA STAYED BEHIND: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
MARIA NEGOTIATED: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
MOTHER MANAGED MY CAREER: 6/67 Pageant
DIDN’T LIKE SCHOOL: 9/57 Photoplay
DIDN’T KNOW NEIGHBORS; BITTY HOUSE: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
NATALIE FELT AWFUL: “Natalie Wood Gets Back In the Ring,” Patrick Pacheco, After Dark, 10/79
FILMED AS B MOVIE: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
TITLES; SUGGESTED WHILE VACATIONING; NATALIE FLEW ON 11/17: “Vital Statistics on Miracle on 34th Street,” Harry Brand, Director of Publicity, Twentieth Century Fox, circa 1947 [from the Fox archives, Los Angeles]
ZANUCK SENT A NOTE, ASSIGNED O’HARA AND PAYNE: Fox Archives, Los Angeles
I WAS ONLY EIGHT: “Exclusive Interview: Natalie Wood,” Flanzy Lewis, Preview, 1978, USC Archives, Natalie Wood Collection
MARGARET WAS THE TOP: Randal Malone to SF
THERE WERE A MILLION; COACHED HER TO “BE MARGARET”; PEOPLE THINK IT’S ME: Margaret O’Brien to SF
ZANUCK’S NOTES ON GHOST; MOOD STORY: “Vital Statistics on ‘The Ghost & Mrs. Muir,’ ” Harry Brand, Director of Publicity, Twentieth Century Fox circa 1947 [Fox collection, Los Angeles]
TRACY DROPPED OUT: Amanda Duff Dunne to SF, 6/22/99
MANKIEWICZ’S COMMENTS: Mankiewicz Q&A at the Director’s Guild of America, Los Angeles, 1986, as quoted in Films In Review 1986
MAUREEN HADN’T READ IT; ORDERED BACK; NOT SO MAD: Maureen O’Hara to SF, 6/16/99
MAGIC: Maureen O’Hara to SF, 6/16/99; “Charming Christmas Story Brings O’Hara Back,” Mark Dawidziak, Calgary Herald, 12/17/95
BELIEVED HE WAS SANTA: Maureen O’Hara to SF, 6/16/99; “Maureen O’Hara Hopes She Has Made Her Second Christmas Classic,” Walt Belcher, The Tampa Tribune, 12/17/95
FELL MADLY IN LOVE: “Tennessee Williams Took His Name Off It,” Rex Reed, New York Times, 1/16/66
ONE-TAKE NATALIE: Nina Arrabit to SF
SEATON WAS AMAZED; INSTINCTIVE SENSE OF TIMING: 2/60 Coronet
MARIE NEVER INTERFERED: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
MOST VIVID MEMORY: 7/7/56 Los Angeles Mirror-News
NATALIE’S TECHNIQUE: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; 1/64 Seventeen
SPELLED MANKIEWICZ, KNEW SHE’D BE AN ACTRESS: Mankiewicz Q&A as quoted in Films in Review 1986
WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME: “Recalling the Happy Times with Natalie Wood,” Donfeld, Los Angeles Times, 9/30/83
HAD TO BE PAMPERED: Amanda Duff Dunne to SF, 6/22/99
LEE RECOLLECTIONS: Anna Lee Nathan to SF, 6/3/99
O’HARA RECOLLECTIONS: Maureen O’Hara to SF, 6/16/99
GOOD LITTLE GIRL: Natalie Wood interview, Peeper press release from Gordon Armstrong, Publicity Director, Twentieth Century Fox, 1975
MAYBE SHE WAS BEATEN: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
THREATENED WITH PIANO: Twentieth Century Fox press release
BOBBY HYATT RECOLLECTIONS: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99, Robert Hyatt letter to SF, 5/99
JEANNE HYATT RECOLLECTIONS: Jeanne Hyatt to SF, 5/6/99
SCUDDA HOO BACKGROUND: “Vital Statistics on ‘Scudda Hoo Scudda Hay,’ ” Harry Brand, Director of Publicity, Twentieth Century Fox [Fox collection]
IN ONE I WAS: “Falling Stars,” David Castell, Sunday Telegraph, 12/6/81
I WAS PLAYING: 3/9/69 New York Times
I TOOK ON THE CHARACTERISTICS: 7/71 Pageant
DIFFICULT TO SEPARATE THE REALITY: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
STILL VAGUELY BELIEVED IN SANTA: Natalie Wood on AMC Hollywood Real to Reel
NATALIE WAS PARALYZED: 2/60 Coronet
ALWAYS BEEN FRAIL: 3/62 Photoplay
IT WAS TERRIBLE: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
PLAYED CANASTA: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
LOUELLA GUSHED: Louella Parsons columns, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 5/3/47, 6/14/47
MARIA’S DIRTY TRICK: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell for Star Mothers, 1/10/87
NICK WAS TOO DRUNK: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
LANA’S STORMY RECOLLECTIONS: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
SHOW BUSINESS HER SOLUTION: Robert Blake, “E True Hollywood Story: Natalie Wood”
BELIEVED SHE WAS SEXUALLY ABUSED: Robert Blake outtakes
THE SIGNS WERE THERE: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
KEEP HANDS OUT OF BEDCOVERS: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99, Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
TOLD NATALIE SHE WOULD DIE: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
FAHD WAS IN THE BACKGROUND: Margaret O’Brien to SF
NICK PRETENDED, FLIPPED OUT, SENSITIVE TOPIC, NATALIE KNEW RUSSIAN, KIMONOS: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
LANA HATES SHOUTING, NATALIE HATED CONFRONTATION: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
OLGA AND LEXI, SHE WAS MORE RUSSIAN: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 8/13/99
RUSSIAN FOODS: “Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner,” Barbara Wilkins, Bon Appetit October 1977
DACHAS HIDDEN IN FORESTS: 2/15/79 Los Angeles Times
GOAL TO BE BEST BALLERINA: 9/57 Photoplay
WHAT INTRIGUED DWAN: Who the Devil Made It, Peter Bogdanovich, 1997, Knopf
IT WAS A SLEEPER: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
The New Yorker, 6/14/17, “Santa Out of Season”
Hollywood Reporter 5/2/47, “ ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ Delightful Surprise Hit”
A NOVELTY; LOST TO VIEW: “ ‘Ghost and Mrs. Muir’ Scores as Novelty,” Edwin Schallert, Los Angeles Times 7/4/47
FOX CONTRACT: Los Angeles Superior Court Case #531936, In the Matter of the Contract Between Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Natalie Gurdin, filed 7/10/47
NO CONCEPTION OF MONEY: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
HEDDA USED TO: “The Natalie Wood Story—Child Star To Glamor Girl,” Hedda Hopper, 6/26/55, Chicago Tribune Magazine
INFUHR MEMORIES: Dr. Ted Infuhr to SF, 6/2/99
NATALIE’S FAVORITE SCENE/GLAMOUR GIRL: 7/7/56 Los Angeles Mirror-News
NATALIE WAS DELIGHTFUL, ADORED LANA: Mrs. Frank Arrigo to SF, 6/26/99
CALLED HER LANA, LANA CRIED: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
LANA A NERVOUS CHILD: 8/67 Photoplay
LANA WAS JEALOUS: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell for Star Mothers, 11/85
MUSIA LIVED FOR NATALIE: Constantine Liuzunie to SF, 6/14/99
NICK’S LAST-GASP EFFORT: Nina Arrabit to SF
NICK’S DREAM: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
FAME NEVER WENT TO HER HEAD, WOULDN’T GO IN RIVER, MARIA’S THIRD-DEGREE ON BOYS: Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99
Natalie Wood Gregson to C. S. Liuzunie, 7/23/70, courtesy of Constantine Liuzunie
NATALIE WAS THE QUEEN: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
MARIA SAID WOMEN WERE CATTY: Randal Malone to SF, 1/25/00
FOX SCHOOL WAS EMPTY: “Daisy and Madame X,” Harrison Carroll, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 4/25/65; 7/23/67 Examiner
DRIFTWOOD REVIEW: Film Daily, 11/6/47, “Driftwood”
FASCINATING DISCOURSE: Hollywood Reporter, 3/2/48, “Farm Film Loaded With Fresh Humor”
TIERNEY SUSPENDED, CRAIN REPLACED: Academy of Motion Pictures Library file, Chicken Every Sunday
SYDES’ MEMORIES: Ruth Sydes to SF, 5/4/99
MARIA’S GRANDIOSITY: Olga Viripaeff to SF; 9/57 Photoplay; 11/57 Movie Show
ACTRESS/DANCER: Randal Malone to SF
MARIA TOLD STORIES: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
MCCARTHY WANTED TO MAKE: “Houston’s Term as City of Stars Draws to End,” Mildred Stockard, The Houston Chronicle, 3/19/49
CHAPMAN WAS DIFFICULT: Ted Donaldson to SF, 6/19/99
GREEN PROMISE INFO: Ted Donaldson to SF; Jeanne LaDuke to SF, 6/21/99; Marguerite Chapman to SF, 1/20/99
NATALIE RECALLED HUGE PROPELLERS; MOTHER CRIED “MY CHILD”: 1978 Preview
THEY WERE TELLING HER HURRY: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
SOMEBODY PULLED LEVER, DON’T REMEMBER THEM FISHING ME: “Late Actress Was Terrified of the Ocean,” Bob Lardine, New York Daily News, 12/2/81
IT WAS SO TRAUMATIC: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
IT WAS HER SECRET: Jeanne Hyatt to SF
MARIA DIDN’T SUE; THOUGHT DOCTORS WOULD TALK: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99 & 5/24/99
DIDN’T LIKE DOCTORS: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn to SF
NATALIE HAD NIGHTMARES: Leslie Bricusse to SF, 8/25/99
COMBINATION OF INJURY AND FEAR; MARIA READ PALMS: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
DEDA WOULD TALK: Natalie’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin
NATALIE BLAMED MOM FOR WRIST: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
MARIA’S SUPERSTITIONS: Lana Wood to SF, 8/24/99
NATALIE FOUND IT DIFFICULT: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
COULDN’T REMEMBER 10 TO 12: 10/84 McCall’s
MISSING OUT, LONELY: “The Natalie Wood Interview,” Alis Loewell, Los Angeles Free Press, 8/2/74
FELT MORE COMFORTABLE WITH GROWN-UPS: Natalie Wood on Tomorrow, 2/14/80
OLGA’S WEDDING, PICTURE FROM NATALIE: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 7/11/99
NATALIE’S NIGHTMARE OF NO IDENTITY: “Natalie Wood’s Kiss of Life,” Douglas Thompson, Daily Mail, 4/7/79
NO CLEAR PERCEPTION: Natalie Wood interview excerpt, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
O’HARA’S FULLBACK MEMORIES: Maureen O’Hara to SF
MACMURRAY’S COMMENT: KCOP “Tribute to a Very Special Lady”
WEARING FALSE EYELASHES: 7/7/56 Los Angeles Mirror-News
HOUSTON HAD MORE NATIONAL FIGURES; HUGHES PERSUADED ZANUCK: “Torchlight Parade Will Precede ‘Green Promise’ Premiere,” Houston Chronicle, 3/18/49
BALLYHOO, SCHMALZ: 3/9/49 The Hollywood Reporter
PLAYS THE ROLE WITH SENSITIVENESS: “ ‘The Green Promise’ Tells American Story,” The Houston Chronicle, 3/19/49
OUR VERY OWN: Jane Wyatt to SF, 1/7/99; Ann Blyth to SF, 4/9/99; Joan Evans Weatherly to SF, 6/15/99
NOT A CHILD STAR: “The Youngest Veteran,” Alexander Walker, London Standard, circa 11/30/81; “Natalie Wood,” Earl Leaf, Teen, 12/61; “A New Year for Natalie Wood,” Mike Connolly, Screen Stories, February 1962
NO FILM STARS: “Time-Check on Natalie,” Pauline Peters, London Sunday Times, 4/27/80
CLIMBED OUT WINDOWS: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
ANN DORAN: Ann Doran to SF, 5/26/99
MARIA’S PLANS TO LEAVE NICK: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99
NATALIE SAID CALL THE DOCTOR: “Natalie Wood: Child of Change,” Gereon Zimmermann, Look, 8/13/63
FAMILY DEPENDED ON ME: 10/79 After Dark
DISCOVERED THE HEARTBREAK: 2/11/79 New York Daily News
DO ANYTHING FOR PART: Jeanne Hyatt to SF
NATALIE SAID SHE’D DO ANYTHING: Gigi Perreau to SF, 8/6/99
GIGI PERREAU’S RECOLLECTIONS: Gigi Perreau to SF, 8/6/99
DON ZOUTE’S RECOLLECTIONS: Don Zoute to SF, 8/17/99
ROBERT BANAS’ RECOLLECTIONS: Robert Banas to SF, 7/6/99
EVERYTHING IS COPY: 2/15/97 Financial Times
NATALIE CRIED DURING JACKPOT: 7/7/56 Mirror-News
NATALIE TURNED AND STARED: “I Married Bob,” Natalie Wood, American Weekly, 5/18/58
WISHED SHE COULD MARRY HIM: Natalie Wood on Donahue, 12/76, Show #11156
JUST A STARING KID: “Nat and Bob—Together Again,” Joyce Haber, Los Angeles Times Calendar, 11/25/73
NATALIE WANTED TO GO TO SCHOOL: “Happy Birthday, Natalie,” Beverly Linet, Modern Screen 8/58; “I’m Not the Girl He Married,” Natalie Wood, Screen Stars, August 1959
WANTED TO BE LIKE OTHER KIDS; BIGGEST SHOCK: 8/59 Screen Stars
FALSIES; COSTUME CHANGE; DIDN’T BELONG: “Natalie Wood,” Arthur Whitman, Pageant, June 1967
NOTICED HOW MUCH OLDER: “Natalie Wood: Still Shining Bright,” Philip Oakes, London Sunday Times, 12/28/69
LAUGHED AT HER: “Natalie Wood: Symbole 1962 de L’Amour,” J. V. Cottom, Ciné Tele-Révue, 4/12/62
POWDER THREW LANA: Dr. Ted Infuhr to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99; Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister
CAN’T GET BILL HOLDEN: Devery Freeman to SF, 9/6/00
WORE HER OWN DRESS: Paramount production records, Dear Brat, Special Collections, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
WENT GAGA: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99
IN AWE; WARM AND SMILING: Leilani Greenwood Overstreet to SF, 9/15/99
ALREADY A STAR: Rochelle Donatoni Vukonich to SF, 10/6/99
DYING TO DO THEIR THINGS: 6/69 Screen Parade
THE WAY SHE LOOKED AT YOU: Helen MacNeil Moriarty to SF, 10/18/99
MARY ANN MARINKOVICH RECOLLECTIONS: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
HAD TO ADVANCE HER CAREER: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/19/99
NATALIE LOOKED YOUNGER: Leilani Overstreet to SF
NATALIE AT SOCK HOPS: Leilani Overstreet to SF; Helen MacNeil Moriarty to SF, 10/18/99; Rochelle Donatoni Vukonich to SF
COULDN’T GO TO BATHROOM: “Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner Get It Together Again,” Thomas Thompson, Cosmopolitan, August 1975
NATALIE WAS INTENSE, MARIA RUTHLESS; FELT SORRY FOR LANA: Gigi Perreau to SF, 8/6/99
DIDN’T LIKE IT: “The Recycling of Natalie Wood,” Carolyn See, McCall’s August 1979
ACTING WAS DIFFICULT, SELF-CONSCIOUS; LANA HAD A HARD TIME: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
STUDIO WANTED HER: 12/28/69 Sunday Times
LOOKED SAME IN JUNIOR HIGH: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99
TURN OUT HOMELY: “The Faces Of Love,” Seventeen, November 1957
SHE’D DROWN IT, HAD TO HAVE A SPECIAL CHILD; NATALIE WORRIED HOW PEOPLE PERCEIVED HER; LANA A MUD FENCE; LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
BAD BOY; NATALIE WANTED WHAT SHE COULDN’T HAVE; JIMMY WAS A ROGUE: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/11/99, 3/3/00
NATALIE COULDN’T DATE IN JUNIOR HIGH: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99
PREGNANT IN BOY’S LAP: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
SPENT LIFE IN PIGTAILS: 1/56 Modern Screen
HER REMARKABLE SINCERITY: “ ‘Blue Veil,’ Wyman Win Human Victory,” Edwin Schallert, Los Angeles Times, 11/17/51
JIMMY’S MEMORIES: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99
GAGA WITH JIMMY: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
MYSTIQUE, JIMMY HAD A TEMPER: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/12/99
JIMMY WILLIAMS’ MEMORIES: Jim Williams to SF, 11/17/99, 12/21/99, 12/23/99, 1/2/00
COULDN’T STAND IT: “Natalie’s Teenage World,” Barbara Henderson, Filmland, July 1956
DATED COLLEGE BOY: 7/56 Filmland; 8/57 Photoplay; “How Natalie Handles Boys and Older Men,” Modern Screen, February 1957
NOBODY TOLD ME WHOM TO DATE: “Knock on Wood,” Bridget Byrne, Women’s Wear Daily, 11/26/79
MARY ANN MARINKOVICH’S MEMORIES: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
WENT FOR A COKE: 9/57 Photoplay
HELD HER SKIRT: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
IMPRESSED BY BURR: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
IMPRESSED BY TAYLOR: Robert Blake outtakes
CROSBY CHOSE WYMAN: “Leave It to Jane,” Hedda Hopper, Chicago Tribune syndicate, 1/13/52
NATALIE BEAT O’BRIEN: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
O’BRIEN HAS NO RECOLLECTION: Margaret O’Brien to SF
NO MORE RESTRICTIONS ON MAKEUP: Lana Wood to SF, 8/24/99
PROUD OF FIRST ROLE IN LIPSTICK: Helen MacNeil Moriarty to SF
BOB ARTHAUD’S MEMORIES: Robert Arthaud to SF, 9/29/99
ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE: “ ‘Just For You’ Delightful,” Hollywood Reporter, 7/31/52
DORAN RE ROSE BOWL: Ann Doran to SF
PERCEIVED DARKNESS AS WEAKNESS: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
HAD TO APPEAR A CERTAIN WAY: Lana Wood at Cinematheque
CUTEST CUTIE: “ ‘The Rose Bowl Story’ Lively Football Film,” Los Angeles Times, 8/26/52
JIMMY’S YEARBOOK: 1952 Fulton yearbook, furnished to SF, by Jim Williams
MUD STILL OPPOSED: Jim Williams to SF
NATALIE AND TOM IRISH: Tom Irish to SF, 12/1/99
YOU’RE NOT A LITTLE GIRL: 7/56 Filmland
READ STREET SIGNS: “Be Neat, Try to Please, Natalie’s Dating Advice,” Lydia Lane, Los Angeles Times, 3/16/58
DOLLS; SLUMBER PARTY: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
HEDDA’S COLUMN: Hedda Hopper, Chicago Tribune Syndicate, 8/2/52
THRILLED TO WORK: Natalie Wood, American Film Institute’s Salute to Bette Davis, broadcast 3/21/77 on CBS, screened at the Museum of Radio and Television, Beverly Hills, California
IRISH HAD A PART: Tom Irish to SF
SHOT IN 24 DAYS: Dale Eunson to SF, 6/15/99
SAILBOAT SCENE SHOT 8/21: 8/21/52 Daily Variety
SHOT IN SAN PEDRO; HAYDEN’S BOAT: 8/21/52 Variety; Dale Eunson to SF; Betty Denoon Hayden to SF, 6/10/99
ALL OF A SUDDEN: AFI Tribute to Bette Davis
FIRST VERSION: AFI Tribute to Bette Davis
EXPANDED VERSION—A COMPLETE WRECK; FEARED SHARKS: 12/2/81 New York Daily News
THROWN IN: 11/26/79 Women’s Wear Daily
OLGA BELIEVES: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99
MARIA’S VERSION: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Sue Quinn 1/10/87, Star Mothers
NOT IN SCRIPT: Dale Eunson to SF
WAS ON THE BOAT: Betty Denoon Hayden to SF
BOTH STOOD UP TO HEISLER: Tom Irish to SF
STUDIO MISTREATED HER: 11/26/79 Women’s Wear Daily
TOLD A BOYFRIEND: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
INVITED FOR A DRINK: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
WHAT A MOUTH; BRACELET: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
SCENE ON STAIRCASE: Bette Davis, A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
NATALIE REACHED OUT: Ann Doran to SF
WRAP PARTY; BRACELET: Tom Irish to SF
DROWNING DREAMS PROPHETIC: Jim Williams to SF
FAHD MADE BRACELETS: Natalie’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin
ARROWHEAD WEEKEND: Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety, 9/8/52
NATALIE PROFILE: “Divorces Don’t Agree with Natalie’s Notion,” Aline Mosby, UPI “Filmville Fancies,” circa September 1952, unsourced, from University of Southern California Archives
PRIVATELY CONDONE: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
WORST TIME: “Natalie Wood—From Pampered Star to Doting Wife and Mother,” Peer J. Oppenheimer, Family Weekly, Hollywood Citizen-News, 10/18/69
LOVED THE FEELING: “Natalie Wood Speaking to John Kobal in New York,” Premiere, May 1970
NO PARTS; WHEN NATALIE WANTED SOMETHING: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/11/99, 3/3/00
JIMMY WILLIAMS MEMORIES: Jim Williams to SF, 11/17/99, 12/21/99, 12/23/99, 1/2/00
TOOK 21/2 YEARS: “It’s a Wonderful Whirl,” Natalie Wood, Motion Picture, August 1956
WASN’T IN THE BUSINESS: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
ALL GOOD KIDS; RONNY HOWARD FAMILIES: Rochelle Donatoni Vukonich to SF
THE VALLEY IN 1952: Robert Redford to SF, 2/16/00
FIRST GENUINE KISS: 8/56 Motion Picture
1/2 OF 9TH GRADE: Natalie Wood’s Los Angeles Unified School District official records
ALL A’S: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
ROBERT HYATT RECOLLECTIONS: Robert Hyatt to SF
IDIOT TEENAGER: 1/56 Modern Screen
PRIDE CONTRACT: In the Matter of the Contracts Between Revue Productions, Inc., and Natalie Gurdin, a Minor, Case No. 615141, Los Angeles Superior Court, filed 6/17/53
I OBJECTED TO IT: 1/56 Modern Screen
JEANNE HYATT RECOLLECTIONS: Jeanne Hyatt to SF
NEVER FELT GUILTY: Shirley Moore Mann to SF, 2/2/00
IN THE SHADOW: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell, 1/10/87
“WAS USUALLY HOME”: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
SELDOM SAT FOR MEALS: Jim Williams to SF; Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
GURDINS DETESTED JIMMY; AVOIDED CONFLICT: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
STORYBOOK: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 1/10/00
“WHO WAS THAT GUY?” 5000 LETTERS: “Robert Wagner, Heart to Heart,” Mark Goodman, GQ, March 1986
ILLUSION OF ROMANCE WITH MOORE, SECRETLY INVOLVED WITH HUGHES: Deposition of Terry Moore, Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Jr., Harris County, Texas, Case #139,326
OLGA TALKED TO NATALIE ABOUT JIMMY: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99
WARNED HER SHE’D DIE IF PREGNANT: Robert Hyatt to SF; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
PUNCTURE INTERNAL ORGANS THROUGH SEX WITH WELL-ENDOWED MALE: Scott Marlowe to SF; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
BRIBED MARY ANN; NOT STRONG ENOUGH; BLAMED HERSELF: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
NATALIE ALMOST ELOPED: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99
NATALIE WAS DEVASTATED: Helen MacNeil Moriarty to SF
NEVER DATED HIGH SCHOOL BOYS: 8/13/63 Look
EACH YEAR WAS THE LAST: 11/57 Seventeen
DISTURBED THOSE DREAMS: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
LOATHED HER MOTHER: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
STAGED A COUP: Margaret O’Brien to SF, 1/26/00; Marie Gurdin to Randal Malone, Malone to SF, 1/14/00 & 1/25/00
STARTED TO REBEL: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/5/00
QUIETED HER NERVES: “Those Rebel Years,” Natalie Wood, Motion Picture, October 1957
INSOMNIA: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
COULDN’T FUNCTION; BELIEVED IN MOTHERHOOD; PSYCHIATRIST: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
HEAVY MAKEUP: Robert Hyatt to SF; 3/16/58 Los Angeles Times
PARSONS REPORTED THE COLLISION: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 4/5/54
MONOTONE: “Glorifying the Scandian Boy,” John McCarten, The New Yorker, 4/10/54
BETTE DAVIS LOOK: Robert Wagner on The Rosie O’Donnell Show, 1999
UNDERLYING RESTLESSNESS: On the Other Hand, A Life Story, Fay Wray, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1989
DREADFUL: 1/56 Modern Screen
DELICATE, VULNERABLE QUALITY: “Rick McKay’s Night on the Town with Fay Wray,” Scarlet Street 1998, issue #27
SAVILLE CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN HER: “Natalie’s 2nd Childhood,” Liza Wilson, The American Weekly, 10/31/54
ORR CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN HER: William Orr to SF, 5/29/99
DATES OF NATALIE’S TESTS FOR CHALICE: Warner’s Production Notes for The Silver Chalice, the Warners Collection at USC
SINATRA ON THE LOT FOR YOUNG AT HEART: Young at Heart file, Academy Library, Warner’s production notes; Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter
SINATRA GOT A KICK OUT OF MARIA: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99
SINATRA INVITED THEM, MARIA ENCOURAGED IT, ETC.: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
URGED HER TO GET CLOSE TO SINATRA: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99
MARIA WAS A PIMP; EASILY SEDUCED: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
WOULDN’T SURPRISE HER: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
THREW HER TO LIONS; SINATRA AFFAIR; ABORTIONS: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99
CALLED PEOPLE CLYDE: “Why Sinatra Must Hide His Love for Mia,” Mike Connolly, Screen Stories, October 1965
GAVE ME THE FEELING: Frank Sinatra, A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
WAY OF LYING TO NATALIE: Jeanne Hyatt to SF, 5/6/99
LIKE A GROWN WOMAN: Phoebe Kassebaum to SF, 9/15/99
INSCRIPTION: Van Nuys High ’54 yearbook belonging to Maryann Marinkovich Brooks
PLAY SEXY PARTS; SAID SHE WAS 17; MODELED IN SWIMSUIT: Warner’s press releases, The Silver Chalice file, Warner’s Collection at USC
I HAD AMBITIONS: “Little Girl No More,” Natalie Wood, unsourced article circa summer 1956, USC Warner’s Collection
SENSE OF MYSTERY: Paul Newman, A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
FRIENDS WITH PIER: Jim Williams to SF; 10/31/54 American Weekly
O’BRIEN MEMORIES: Margaret O’Brien to SF
MARGARET WAS SWEET; WORE LEIGH’S DRESS: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/11/99
NATALIE HAD PIZZAZZ: Jim Westmoreland to SF, 2/15/99
WHISPERS IN THE FAMILY, DESTROYED HIS PAPERS: Aaron Pichel to SF, 4/2/99 & 10/18/99
DEVOTED TO MY DAD: Marlowe Pichel to SF, 3/29/99
TOLD A PUBLICATION: “The Story of Hollywood’s Newest Sister Act,” Calling All Girls, September 1956
18; DATING SOUND MAN BELCHER: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 6/25/54
JACKIE EASTES’ MEMORIES: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/11/99, 12/12/99, 12/19/99, 1/4/00, 1/6/00, 3/3/00 & “Conversations with Natalie,” notes by Jacqueline Perry
PINK ROSES: “She Lives a Teenager’s Dream,” Movie Stars, September 1957
CULTIVATED IMAGE: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
GOTTEN HER EXPELLED: Phoebe Kassebaum to SF
ALL-AMERICAN: Margaret O’Brien to SF
RAD FULTON MEMORIES: Jim Westmoreland (AKA Rad Fulton) to SF, 2/14/99, 2/15/99, 3/8/99
A “SCENE”: Bob Allen as told to Margaret O’Brien, to SF, 1/26/00
TOLD DICKIE MOORE; ACCIDENT: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
ACCIDENT: “Natalie Wood Unhurt As Her Car Overturned,” Los Angeles Citizen-News, 8/26/54; Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 8/27/54; Hollywood Reporter, 9/1/54
CONTROLLED FEELINGS, NEVER ALLOWED TO BE HERSELF; SISTER’S DRILL, RECORD PLAYER: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
PASSED OUT AT A PARTY: Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF, 10/1/99
SIPPING AT CIRO’S: 6/69 Screen Parade
5 YEARS BEHIND: Ted Donaldson to SF
A FEINT, A LOOK: Randal Malone to SF
LONG LINE OF SUITORS: Robert Wagner, as quoted in 8/75 Cosmopolitan
FRIENDLY, NO SENSE WHAT HE WOULD BECOME: Ed Jubert to SF, September 1999
NOT A COOL KID: Phoebe Kassebaum to SF
REDFORD MET HER AT REGISTRATION: Robert Redford to SF
NOT BRAGGADOCIOUS; SWEET PERSON: Phoebe Kassebaum to SF
RELIEVED ABOUT SERIES; ON STRIKE; DIDN’T WANT HER TO MEET WAGNER, WHEN 18: Robert Hyatt to SF
DADDY LONG LEGS: Hollywood Reporter, 10/15/54
HEART SHONE THROUGH: “Unforgettable Super-Star Natalie Wood,” Robert Kendall, Hollywood Studio Magazine, March 1982
SCHEME TO HIRE WILLSON; MARIA CONCERNED: Robert Hyatt to SF; Jeanne Hyatt to SF
FIRST LOVE SCENE: Interview with Natalie Wood, Jeff Freedman, Interview, October 1978
STUCK WITH DEAN, NERVOUS, WHAT I EXPECTED, GREASY SPOON, CLASSICAL MUSIC, CHILD ACTOR, READ MOVIE MAGAZINES: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
PRODUCER WAS WORRIED; DEAN DIDN’T GET IT: Mort Abrahams as quoted in James Dean, The Mutant King, A Biography by David Dalton, St. Martin’s Press, 1974, New York
DEAN ALMOST OD’D: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
LIKE BEING A GIRL: “The Girl Most Likely To Succeed in 1962,” David Lewin, Express Photo News, circa 1962, Natalie Wood Collection, British Film Institute
PART IN TACEY: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Examiner, 11/15/54
NEVER GROW UP: “Little Girl No More”
HUDSON WHISTLED: “Little Girl No More”
MINK STOLE: Sheilah Graham column, 12/29/54
WORE PRINTS AND PLAIDS: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
LOVED CLOTHES: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF, 9/15/99
WANTED TO BE GREAT: 7/71 Pageant
BOBBY CALLED HER: Robert Hyatt to SF
NATALIE WEPT, VOICE BUZZING: “Why We Call Natalie ‘Tiger,’ ” Faye Nuell, Motion Picture, October 1956
FELT EXACTLY THE WAY: 2/11/79 New York Daily News Sunday Magazine
REBEL BACKGROUND: Nicholas Ray, An American Journey, Bernard Eisenschitz, translated by Tom Milne, Faber & Faber, London/Boston, 1993; Leonard Rosenman to SF, 3/9/99; Stewart Stern, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 45th anniversary tribute to Rebel Without A Cause, 10/26/00
FELT AN INSTANT COMMUNICATION: 4/64 Screen Stories
I’M AN ACTRESS: 11/57 Seventeen
PREFERRED CHARACTERS WITH WHOM SHE IDENTIFIED: 10/79 After Dark
MARY ANN’S MEMORIES: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
MARIA WAS SUSPICIOUS; LUCKED OUT, DANGLED: Scott Marlowe to SF
JACKIE’S MEMORIES: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
FIRST CHOICE WAS O’BRIEN: Margaret O’Brien to SF
THREATENED TO RUN AWAY: Natalie Wood interview excerpt, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
DECIDED TO PLEASE MYSELF: Natalie Wood, as quoted by Gordon Armstrong, National Publicity Director for Twentieth Century Fox, in publicity materials for Peeper
NICK THREW UP HIS HANDS: Lana Wood, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
CRITICAL DECISION: “Mrs. Wagner Not Ms. Wood,” Richard Cuskelly, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 10/13/74
WANTED TO BE GREAT: 10/78 Interview
DONE ANYTHING: Second Act, An Autobiography, Joan Collins, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1997
OPERA PUMPS, WORRIED ABOUT RAY: “The Girl Who Grew Up Too Fast,” Nick Adams, Modern Screen, May 1956; 8/58 Modern Screen
TOLD SKOLSKY: Sidney Skolsky collection, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Beverly Hills, California
KNEES SHAKING: Modern Screen circa 10/56
WASN’T GOING TO CAST NATALIE; NO FILM IN CAMERA: James Dean, The Mutant King
CONSIDERED HER FOR JUDY’S FRIEND: An American Journey
THE ULTIMATE STAR: Past Imperfect, Joan Collins, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1978
LITTLE PRINCE FAVORITE BOOK: 11/68 Cosmopolitan et al.
JAILBAIT; ADAMS GAVE MUD A KISS; SNAPPED BACK: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
STAKEOUTS AT THE CHATEAU; DAD ANGRY: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99; Lana Wood, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
MARIA SUPPORTED REBEL: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99; Jeanne Hyatt to SF, 5/6/99
ROMANTICIZED THE RAY AFFAIR; NOT TO GET THE PART: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF; Margaret O’Brien to SF
OPENED THE DOOR: 10/84 McCall’s
FIGURES IN ROMANTIC NOVELS; ASSEMBLY LINE; HATED HER IDOL: Dennis Hopper to SF, 12/21/2000
NATALIE ON WILD BUNCH: Gigi Perreau to SF
HOPPER’S COMMENTS: Dennis Hopper to SF, 12/21/00
DENNIS WAS MADLY IN LOVE: Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF
CHORT: 2/57 Modern Screen
LEANED TO BAKER, REJECTED REMICK: Nicholas Ray notes to Warners, 1/4/55 and 1/5/55, Steve Trilling papers from the Warner Brothers Collection, University of Southern California
DATED WINTERS: Hollywood Reporter, 2/22/55; Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
WANTED MANSFIELD: Leonard Rosenman to SF; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; [Note: Dennis Hopper, who read with Mansfield, described it as a “serious” screen test (Hopper to SF, 12/21/2000)]
TOLD HEDDA: 6/26/55 Chicago Tribune Magazine
NATALIE’S RAPE: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/11/99; Jacqueline Eastes Perry unpublished manuscript; Dennis Hopper to SF, 12/21/00; Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99 & 8/12/99; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF, 9/15/99
BLACKLISTING WOULD BE HER MOM’S CONCERN: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99
HATED HER IDOL; MUSTN’T GO TO BED WITH ANYBODY: Scott Marlowe to SF
NO WONDER SHE BROKE OUT: 8/75 Cosmopolitan
SHE WAS IT: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
LEFT HER TO DRY; WENT TO GOOGIE’S, DRANK AT VILLA CAPRI, DROVE TO MULHOLLAND, ACCIDENT, NEEDED A SPOKESPERSON: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
CAR ACCIDENT; NATALIE KEPT SAYING CALL RAY; TOLD RAY THEY CALLED HER A DELINQUENT: Natalie Wood, Nicholas Ray: I’m a Stranger Here Myself, October Films, Inc., produced by James Gutman
HOPPER COMMENTS: Dennis Hopper to SF
RAY PHONED GURDINS AND NATALIE ASKED TO SEE HIM: Ray, as quoted in An American Journey and 7/71 Pageant
LUCKED OUT; LIVE OR DIE; MADE TRAIN NOISES, DISAPPOINTED AT TAUNTS; WENT ALONG WITH THINGS; WANTED TO MARRY RAY: Scott Marlowe to SF
ASCRIBED IT TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE: 8/58 Modern Screen, 8/59 Screen Stars; 7/71 Pageant [Natalie at times said it was a doctor; other times that it was a cop]
HOPPER COMMENTS: Dennis Hopper to SF
JACKIE’S COMMENTS: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
OVERENTHUSIASTIC WANNABE: 2/23/55 Daily Variety
ALMOST OVER THE EDGE: Phoebe Kassebaum to SF
WARNERS WANTED REYNOLDS: Warner Brothers collection, Rebel Without a Cause, USC
REYNOLDS WASN’T INTERESTED; CAMERA LOVED NATALIE; DEPTH AND SOUL; WOMAN IN A GIRL’S FACE: Debbie Reynolds to SF, 12/21/98
LONG’S COMMENTS: Beverly Long to SF, 9/22/99
THERE WERE 50 OF US; JIMMY TRUSTED NICK: Natalie Wood, Nicholas Ray: I’m a Stranger Here Myself
3/1 RAY MEMO: Trilling Warner Brothers collection, USC
SEVERAL TESTS: Natalie Wood, excerpted on AMC’s Real to Reel
I SPOILED IT: 10/30/69 Los Angeles Times
WOULD HAVE SIGNED ANYTHING: 10/84 McCall’s
GAVE HER THE ONLY; SHE WAS INSTINCTUAL: Robert Blake outtakes
SCARED TO DEATH; MANSFIELD ERA; LOOKING FOR WAYS; POUT; VOICE COACH; SUSAN STRASBERG FIXATION; USED VICKS: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
PADDING: Beverly Long to SF; Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
SPOTTED MINEO IN A LINEUP: Nicholas Ray, as quoted in The Mutant King
FAMILY ATMOSPHERE; TONY WAS AROUND; RAY USED HIS SEXUALITY: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
NO DIRECTOR IMPROVISED: Natalie Wood, “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”
LIKED STRUCTURE: Lana Wood to SF
COREY ALLEN’S COMMENTS: Corey Allen to SF, 9/22/99
ALL BUSINESS; THOUGHT NATALIE COULD HANDLE RAY; SHE’D LISTEN FOR HOURS: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
KNEW OF AFFAIR, RAY SEXY, AFFAIR WITH DEAN: Mitzi McCall Brill to SF, 10/3/99
ROSENMAN COMMENTS: Leonard Rosenman to SF
LOVE TRIANGLE: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF; Scott Marlowe to SF; Leonard Rosenman to SF; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
HAD TO LIVE THEIR ROLES: “Natalie Wood Speaks Out: Youth Silly About Dean?” Marilyn Lee, Los Angeles Examiner, 7/21/56
CRUSH ON DEAN: 10/78 Interview
DIDN’T HAVE STRONG SENSE; RAY TAUGHT HER ABOUT BOOKS: 7/71 Pageant
WEIRD NIGHT; HENNESSY HAD A MEETING; NEVER SAW HER HUG: Beverly Long to SF
THE CAST MUMBLED; COMMITTED TO A PLAY: Marsha Hunt to SF, 7/30/99
GREAT DIRECTORS LIKE KAZAN: “Natalie Wood Heralded ‘Best’ Since Helen Hayes,” Ruth Waterbury, Los Angeles Examiner, 10/9/55
DEAN ALL SHE TALKED ABOUT; TOYED: Sal Mineo, as quoted in The Unabridged James Dean: His Life and Legacy from A to Z, Randall Riese, Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1991
FLIRTATIOUS: Tom Hennessy to SF, 10/3/99
NATALIE WAS SCHOOLED: Ann Doran to SF
KEPT HEARING ABOUT METHOD: 12/28/69 London Sunday Times
TOOK ACTING AS A JOB: Margaret O’Brien to SF
FELT INFERIOR TO ANYONE FROM STUDIO: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF; Scott Marlowe to SF; Robert Redford to SF, et al.
DORAN COMMENTS: Ann Doran to SF
“SPECIAL DISPENSATION” AND HENNESSY COMMENTS: Tom Hennessy to SF, 10/3/99
NATALIE MADE UP INTERVIEWS: 8/13/64 Look
STEFFI SKOLSKY COMMENTS: Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF
FAYE COMMENTS: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
QUIET BUZZ; SEEMED STERN; HANG ON TO HER BRA STRAPS: Jack Grinnage to SF, 9/23/99
THEY WERE THE GODS: Natalie Wood, quoted in Elvis, Albert Goldman, Avon Books, New York, 1981
WILD SIDE: Tom Hennessy to SF
NATALIE THOUGHT BEING GROWN UP: 5/56 Modern Screen
UP FOR ANYTHING; BEST DAY OF HIS LIFE: Perry Lopez to SF, 2/9/99
COOPER COMMENTS: Ben Cooper to SF, 10/13/99
SET-UP DATE: Robert Hyatt to SF
TURN THE PAGE: Jim Westmoreland/Rad Fulton to SF, 2/15/99
OBSESSED WITH SONG: Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF; Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
LYRICS: “When the World Was Young (Ah! the Apple Trees),” Johnny Mercer and M. Philippe Gerard, recorded by Peggy Lee in May 1953, Decca, Black Coffee album
FAVORITE SCENE FROM REBEL: “Natalie Wood to Make First…” The Star, 10/24/78
SAID SHE DATED DEAN: 10/9/55 Examiner; Hedda Hopper, Chicago Tribune 6/26/55; 8/79 McCall’s
SANG RUSSIAN SONG: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
OBSESSED WITH DEAN: Lana Wood to SF
COMPARED DEAN TO LITTLE PRINCE: “She Grew Up Being a Star!” Seymour Korman, Chicago Tribune, 8/18/56
TWO PEOPLE: 10/78 Interview
GAVE HER TIGER; BIG DEAL; PIVOTAL PART: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
BURST IN TEARS: 8/75 Cosmopolitan
FLOUNCED IN FUR; BLIND DATE WITH HOPPER: Margaret O’Brien to SF
TOP 10%: Tom Hennessy to SF
DID IT FOR LANA: Jack Grinnage to SF
CHOSE LANA LISA: 8/18/56 Chicago Tribune
PUSHED ME; SUNBURN; SCARED ON LOCATION; CRUSH ON WAYNE: Lana Wood to SF, 8/24/99
TOUGH BUT KIND: “Nat at the NFT,” Photoplay U.K., August 1980
PATRICK WAYNE COMMENTS; “DUST AND HEAT”; “FRIED” SKIN: Patrick Wayne to SF, 10/6/99
GIRL WAS BRILLIANT; WAYNE IMPRESSED BY HER EYES: Vera Miles and Harry Carey, Jr., A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
LONELY PEOPLE; DON’T LIKE TECHNIQUE; TONGUE-TIED: 1/56 Modern Screen
FREQUENTLY LONELY; KEEPS TIGERS; TAKES TIGERS ON PLANE; STARDOM’S A BY-PRODUCT: “Going Steady with Stardom,” Bill Tusher, Motion Picture, March 1957
CUTE AND ECCENTRIC, SCORED FOR EACH OTHER; TURN IT ON AND OFF; DATED BURR, BEARD, GAY PERIOD: Dennis Hopper to SF
BURNED TO PLAY SCARLETT: 6/26/55 Chicago Tribune
BUILT POOL TO MONITOR; HAD TO BE NATALIE WOOD: Robert Hyatt to SF
GOT IN, GOT WET: Lana Wood to SF, 8/24/99
UPSET AT BILLING; BURR OFFERED HER A WORLD OUTSIDE: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99
BEATNIK PHASE; DINNER IN CHINATOWN: 8/56 Motion Picture
CRIED HER EYES OUT: “Natalie Wood: It Seemed As If All Was Going Her Way,” Roderick Mann, Los Angeles Times, 12/1/81
DINNER IN CHINATOWN: “Remembrances Of James Dean,” Paul Hendrickson, Los Angeles Times,7/22/73
VALENTINO; RUNNING AROUND IN: Corey Allen to SF
EPIC: Ann Doran to SF
GRUESOME THOUGHT: Stanley Kauffman on “Natalie Wood: The Final Days,” September Films, United Productions, aired spring 2000
LUCKY PICTURE: Natalie Wood, interview excerpt, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
SINCE HELEN HAYES: 10/9/55 Los Angeles Examiner
ENDEARING: Ben Cooper to SF
HYSTERICAL OVER DEAN: 10/78 Interview
CAPITALIZING ON FAME: United Press release, Vernon Scott, 4/4/57, USC Warner Brothers Archives
BADMOUTHED: Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF
ADAMS SOLD STORIES: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Steffi Skolsky Splaver to SF
FELT PRESSURE; ANALYZED HER SCRIPT: Lana Wood, American Cinematheque
PATS OF JOY: “Actress, 17, Takes Pet to Sign New Contract,” Los Angeles Examiner, 10/27/55
OVERDREW $400: Incomplete Natalie Wood article by Liza Wilson, unsourced newspaper, 8/19/56, from the USC Warner Brothers Archives
DORTORT COMMENTS: David Dortort to SF, 6/26/99
ANDERSON COMMENTS: Richard Anderson to SF, 4/29/99
ESCARGOTS: 2/60 Coronet
ORSON WELLES MAKEOVER: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
CRAZY ABOUT BURR: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
SAFETY NET: Debbie Reynolds to SF
CLAIMED TO BE MARRIED: [Note: Burr’s sister, Geraldine Fuller, said he was married only once; A&E Biography, Raymond Burr, airing 3/2/00]
BURR LOVED NATALIE; STUDIO PRESSURED: Robert Benevides to SF, 6/24/99; “Nat Wood–Bob Wagner: Too Much of Everything?” Joan Curtis, Screen Parade, November 1958
TOP PICKS: “Hedda Hopper Predicts,” Chicago Tribune Magazine, 1/1/56
FIVE LAYOUTS: Warner Brothers publicity files, USC Warners Collection
DOG PADDLE; PHYSICAL WITH BURR; MORE CONCERNED ABOUT WARDROBE: Judi Meredith Nelson to SF, 6/10/99
WANTED PEOPLE TO LIKE HER: 6/69 Screen Parade
MORE FAN MAIL: 8/19/56 Los Angeles Examiner
FAN MAGAZINES STRANGE: 12/28/69 London Sunday Times
COMPARED TO BROOKE SHIELDS: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
91 POUNDS, TIME OFF: A Cry in the Night file, USC Warners Collection
BURR SENT FLOWERS; STANDING OVATION; SAW NATALIE THREE TIMES WEEKLY; PHILHARMONIC: The Burning Hills file, USC Warners Collection
MET AT A PARTY: 1/3/55 Hollywood Reporter (in a spin at Ciro’s); 3/86 GQ; “The Love Story of the Year,” Patty de Roulf, Motion Picture, December 1957; Natalie Wood to Sue Russell
RED HEART: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Examiner, 2/7/56
TAB HUNTER COMMENTS: Tab Hunter to SF, 5/3/99
COCONUT GROVE: undated Los Angeles Mirror News, Natalie Wood Collection, USC Warners Archives; 3/9/55 Daily Variety
PLAY FEMME FATALE: “Movie Veteran at 17,” People and Places, March 1956
CURTIS RAN INTO NATALIE AT AN OYSTER HOUSE PARTY, SULKING OVER BURR: 11/58 Screen Parade; 2/1/56 Hollywood Reporter
WARNER CHAPERONED: 1/31/56 Hollywood Reporter
JOKES ABOUT HER LINES; GIRL WITH LEFT BEHIND: Mart Crowley, “Starring Natalie Wood”
HEISLER COMPLAINT: Stu Heisler phone call, 2/16/56 memo, The Burning Hills folder, Jack L. Warner Collection, USC
PLAY CHARACTER PARTS: 7/56 Filmland
THREW THE BOOK DOWN: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
TAYLOR AND BRANDO: 3/5/56 Daily Variety
EVERY GIRL FALLS: 11/57 Seventeen
ANNE OF 1000 DAYS; USO TOUR; AN UNDERSTANDING, MARRIAGE: “Hollywood Today,” Sheilah Graham, Hollywood Citizen-News, 4/5/56
REAL HEART IS BURR: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Examiner, 3/15/56
RETRACTED COMMENTS: 2/57 Modern Screen
BURR SAID LATER: “Little Girl, What Now?” Dell Hollywood Life Stories, February 1962; Raymond Burr, Ona Hill, McFarland and Company, North Carolina, 1994
BURR WAS BITTER: Robert Benevides to SF
CUT HER HAIR: Tab Hunter to SF; 3/23/56 Daily Variety; 7/56 Movie Life; 8/56 Motion Picture
PLUMAS LOCAS: “S.F. Actress Visits Here,” Bob Hall, unsourced San Francisco newspaper, May 1956
STARTED A TREND; SCHLOCKY: Tab Hunter to SF
MADE HER DO IT: circa 1978 Preview
UCLA PARTY: Tab Hunter to SF; Ed Tolmas to SF, 10/4/99
UNAFFECTED; EVER SEE MARY ANN: Dr. Melvyn Wishan to SF, 10/6/99
HONORED US: 7/56 Modern Screen; 8/56 Screen Album
BACKED OFF: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
HUNTER WAS SAFE: Lana Wood to SF
TRIP AN INDUCEMENT: “Natalie Wood: Female Rebel Without a Cause,” Exposed, February 1957
SCOTT MARLOWE COMMENTS: Scott Marlowe to SF, 6/8/99 & 8/12/99
“EILATAN,” NIGHTCLUB TOUR: Warner Brothers publicity, USC Warners Collection
PINK PHONE, BREAKFAST IN BED: 8/56 Screen Album
HAWAII TRIP: “Natalie Wood’s Confidential Diary,” Natalie Wood, Movie Parade, November 1956
FELL OFF BOAT; IMPATIENT TO WORK: “Aloha Means Goodbye,” Photoplay, September 1956
READ NIETZSCHE AND WARREN: 2/60 Coronet
FIRST TIME ON A BOAT: Scott Marlowe to SF
PICTURED WITH NEPHEWS: 5/56 unsourced San Francisco paper
WONDERS IF OLGA’S HAPPY: 7/56 Filmland
MADLY IN LOVE; AFRAID OF DOCTORS; MARIA DIDN’T LIKE ANALYSIS, NATALIE DIDN’T LIKE MOM: Lana Wood to SF
REALIZED SHE WAS MANIPULATED: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
HYPNOTIZED: “Natalie—And Her Men,” Movie Life, April 1957
REVIEW OF GIRL: “The Girl He Left Behind,” James Powers, Hollywood Reporter, 10/26/56
PAID MEDICAL BILLS: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
ADAMS AND BLAIR SPIED: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
TO MARRY MARLOWE: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Examiner, 7/2/56
USING NATALIE; ADAMS PERSUADED NATALIE TO DELAY MARRYING: “Boy-Crazy Teen-Ager?” Movieland, March 1957
WORRIED ABOUT FAN MAGS: 3/9/69 New York Times
WARNERS PRESS RELEASE TO MAKE PICTURE WITH MARLOWE: USC Warners Archives, folder for The Girl He Left Behind
PRESS PARTY, DESSERT PARTY, 50 STARS: The Hollywood Reporter, 7/20/56
DATE ARRANGED BY WILLSON; PUSHED PRESLEY: Robert Hyatt to SF
STUDIO SET-UP DATE; SENT ONE WITH MANNERS: “Hollywood Can Never Wreck Their Marriage Again!: An Exclusive Interview With Robert Wagner’s Mother-in-Law,” Stacie Keyes, TV Radio-Mirror, January 1976; Joan Curtis, quoted in 11/58 Screen Parade
CHIFFON DRESS AND TIARA: “I’m Not the Girl He Married,” Karen Foster, Screen Stories, August 1959
HAPPY JACK SQUIRREL: Robert Wagner in an undated, unsourced televised interview excerpted on AMC’s Real to Reel
THOSE EYES, INTELLECT; RUNNING WITH ELITE OF HOLLYWOOD: 3/86 GQ
WONDERFUL TALENT, MORE ACCOMPLISHED; SO HONEST: “Now, a New Beginning,” Dotson Rader, Parade Magazine, 11/17/85
PERFECT IMITATIONS, WAITED FOR HIM TO CALL, SENT FLOWERS: “I Married Bob,” Natalie Wood, as told to Liza Wilson, American Weekly, 5/18/58
BURNED AN EFFIGY; PLUNGING NECKLINE, TIGER: 8/58 Modern Screen; 3/10/57 Sheilah Graham column
ANOTHER DATE: Sidney Skolsky interview with Robert Wagner, 11/21/57, from transcript in Skolsky collection, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
FIRED WILLSON; PRESLEY NOT WHAT SHE WANTED: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
TAB’S A SOFT DRINK: 12/28/69 London Sunday Times
PLANTED ITEM ABOUT ADAMS: Army Archerd column, Daily Variety, 8/15/56; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; 2/58 Movie TV (Natalie said it was a set-up)
WOUK’S IMPRESSIONS OF NATALIE: “My Search for Marjorie,” Herman Wouk, The American Weekly, 5/11/58
MET PRESLEY IN MALIBU: Marlowe to SF; “I Got Cold Feet at the Altar: Elvis: Natalie’s Fill-in—Or Future?” Irene D. Reich, Modern Screen, December 1956; undated, unsourced London newspaper clipping quoting Natalie Wood from the British Film Institute collection on Wood
THREESOME: “Natalie Wood: Show-off or Show-Woman?” Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Examiner, 12/16/56
LONELY ON NY TRIP: “Natalie Wood, the Star Who Beat the Jinx,” Peer J. Oppenheimer, Compact, February 1957
NEEDED SOMEONE AROUND: “Bob, Did You Know?” Judi Meredith, Photoplay, March 1958
FIKE COMMENTS: Lamar Fike to SF, 2/12/99
MUD AND FAHD LIKED PRESLEY; NATALIE CRAZY ABOUT HIM; CALLED IN “CODE”: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
NATALIE DISCUSSED WITH GOLDMAN; LOOKED THROUGH WINDOWS; HADN’T BEEN AROUND ANYONE RELIGIOUS: Elvis
CARNIVAL REVIEW: Daily Variety, 10/11/56
PLAYED A REAL RAT: Ben Cooper to SF
VAUGHN COMMENTS: Letter from Robert Vaughn to SF, 9/9/99
LEFT TOWN ABRUPTLY, SECRETLY: Leonard Hirshan to SF, 5/4/99; Michael Zimring to SF, 7/2/99; Sheilah Graham column, 3/10/57; Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Examiner, 3/10/57
WHO SHOULD DRIVE UP: Jerry Schilling to SF, 7/30/97
MET BY VAUGHN, TOREADORS: 3/10/57 Sheilah Graham; 11/16/56 Hollywood Reporter
GOLDEN GLOBE: information provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association [Note: Natalie received the award in January 1957]
MODERN SCREEN CEREMONY: from video of The Ed Sullivan Show, 12/3/56; 11/30/56 Hollywood Reporter
BEST ACTING AS HER: Dennis Hopper to SF
WORRIED LIKED HER BECAUSE NATALIE WOOD: Lana Wood to SF
NEUROSES KEPT HER SLIM: “Teenage Dreamboat,” Movieland, October 1957
RJ’S FIRST BOAT; FIRST INTIMACY: 10/79 Orange Coast; “Heart To Hart,” Jane Ardmore, San Antonio Light, 9/27/81
FLOATING IN SPACE: “The Very Private Lives of Natalie and Bob Wagner,” Leonard Lewis, Movie World, March 1959
HEAD OVER HEELS: 3/86 GQ
STAR JUNKET: 3/10/57 Sheilah Graham column
BOYS SWARMING: Karl Malden to SF, 7/29/99
NO PICNIC: “Natalie Wood: Bait Enough For Beatty?” Helen Hendricks, Silver Screen, October 1962
PRIVATE LINE, TALKED ALL NIGHT, BLACK FURNITURE; BURN OUT: 3/57 Motion Picture
AMBITION OF LIFE: 4/8/57 Hollywood Reporter
PARTY LINE; LOVE TALK: Dr. Melvyn Wishan to SF
TORTURED HER OVER MARJORIE: Marlowe to SF
HAD TO PLAY THE GAME: Zimring to SF
BROOKLYN ACCENT; 3 DATES; TWO-PART SERIES: 8/57 and 9/57 Photoplay
SWEARING CONTESTS; ACTED AS A BEARD: Judi Meredith Nelson to SF
SINATRA WAS COURTING: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; 4/8/57 Hollywood Reporter; 4/30/57 Daily Variety
TOMORROW WON’T COME: Sheilah Graham column, Sunday Mirror, 3/11/57
HEADING FOR A FALL: “Natalie Wood: Teenage Tiger,” Look, 6/25/57
SINATRA INCONGRUOUS: “The Night Natalie Wood Can Never Forget,” Peer Oppenheimer, Movieland, August 1957
BOY CRAZY: 3/21/57 Daily Variety
COULDN’T BE FAITHFUL; LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS; LUNCH WHEN ENGAGED: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF
CALL IT FASCINATION: 10/62 Silver Screen
INTENSE ABOUT SOMETHING: “Little Girls Grow Up Fast,” Young Movie Lovers, 1957 issue
COMPARED TO ZELDA: 2/60 Coronet
HANDS SHAKING: Amanda Duff Dunne to SF
SCENES WITH TIERNEY: Anna Lee Nathan to SF
NERVOUS HEART: 1/21/57 Daily Variety
EVERY TIME SHE READS: 3/58 Photoplay
NO MORE FAN COVERS: “Why Are Men Afraid of Natalie?” Joy Sands, Movie and TV Spotlight, October 1957
TRIED TO MAKE HER LOOK LIKE FEMME: UP press release by Vernon Scott, 4/4/57
MAKING UP MIND BETWEEN R.J. AND NICKY; NICKY WOULDN’T BE BEST THING: Troy Donahue to SF, 5/29/99
MET WITH CONRAD HILTON; VERY SERIOUS: Olga Viripaeff to SF; Lana Wood to SF
EVERY 3 MINUTES: “Divorce Without Marriage,” Hollywood’s Top 10 Scandals 1963
VIOLENT-TEMPERED HILTON: “Liz, Ms. Taylor Will See You Now,” Paul Theroux, Talk, October 1999 [Taylor states Hilton “physically abused” her and “kicked a baby out of her stomach”]
MINK ON BOAT FOR 19TH BIRTHDAY: 8/58 Modern Screen; 7/22/57 Daily Variety
SHOUP TAUGHT HER; BOOB UPLIFTS: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Judi Meredith Nelson to SF
CRITICIZED METHOD: “Natalie Wood Heard From: Tells What’s Wrong with N.Y. Actors,” Joe Hyams, New York Tribune, 6/20/57
MARRIAGE RUMORS: 8/9/57 Daily Variety; 9/8/57 New York Daily News
CALLS HER BUG; SAME HOTEL: 12/57 Motion Picture; Lana Wood to SF (same hotel)
KISSING FOREHEAD; LOVE SEARCH ENDED: 12/57 Motion Picture; “Be Careful, Nat…It’s Your Heart,” Natalie Wood, Screen Stars, November 1957
“MR. WOOD”: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 9/21/57
SPEND LIFE IN CRAPPER; SINATRA GAVE HOBOKEN GUIDE: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
RUTA LEE COMMENTS: Ruta Lee to SF
THE NATALIE; MY OTHER LADY: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 10/1/57; 10/9/57 Hollywood Reporter
NO DAY OFF: 11/57 Seventeen
SINATRA FROM GREATSVILLE: “Natalie Wood on Love and Marriage,” Ruth Schandorff, Bride & Home, spring 1958
PROPOSAL: 5/18/58 American Weekly; Sugar Bates to SF, 8/4/99; 8/57 Cosmopolitan; Lana Wood to SF
FIRST CALL TO LOUELLA: Louella Parsons column, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12/7/57
SHOUP GOWN: 12/18/57 Daily Variety
MARY ANN WAS CONCERNED: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF
TOPIC OF SAME STORIES: Jim Westmoreland/Rad Fulton to SF
MARRIED TO GET AWAY: Olga Viripaeff to SF
MEAL TICKET: Jeanne Hyatt to SF
NO GOOD WILL COME: Robert Hyatt to SF
PHOTOGRAPHER ALONG: “Photoplay Was There,” Photoplay, March 1958 [Note: Bill Avery was the photographer]