Authors: Suzanne Finstad
ANGLOPHILE
: Tony Costello to SF
CRUSH ON FINNEY; SOMEONE TO LOVE HER
: Sugar Bates to SF
BRICUSSE COMMENTS
: Leslie Bricusse to SF
COSTELLO COMMENTS
: Tony Costello to SF
THAT WAS IT
: “Natalie Wood - From Pampered Star,” Peer J. Oppenheimer,
Family Weekly
, 10/19/69
MADE A LIST; SOMETHING ABOUT R.J
.: Lana Wood to SF
READY TO MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN
: 2/67
Motion Picture;
11/9/66
Daily Variety;
Olga Viripaeff to SF
STRONG MAN; FEAR OF FLYING
: 7/71
Pageant
WORKED ON
ROSE GARDEN
: Sydney Pollack to SF; Tony Costello to SF
JUST LIVING
: 10/30/69
New York Times
DRESSED LIKE A STAR FOR FLIGHTS
: Diane Wells to SF, December 2000
NATALIE HIS FIRST BIG CHALLENGE
: 8/72
Photoplay
BOTH HAVE TEMPERS
: 7/71
Pageant
DIDN’T SEE WARMTH
: David Niven, Jr., to SF
REDFORD COMMENTS
: Robert Redford to SF
FAINTLY TRAGIC
: 11/68
Cosmopolitan
LIKE
BOB
SCRIPT
: 3/9/69
New York Times;
1/70 unsourced U.K. article from British Film Institute Natalie Wood collection; 9/69
Movie World
KNEW IN 10 SECONDS
: Paul Mazursky,
E True Hollywood Story
INSECURE; WOULDN’T DO NUDE
: 10/30/69
Los Angeles Times
; Lana Wood to SF
GOULD COMMENTS
: Elliott Gould to SF, 10/16/99
HAPPY WITH GREGSON
: Sugar Bates to SF
NO STAR CRAP
: Mazursky, “The Final Days”
MOCKED STAR IMAGE
: 3/9/69
New York Times
EMBARRASSED AS HELL
: Natalie Wood,
Tomorrow
, 2/14/80
SCARED TO SKI
: 10/30/69
Los Angeles Times
MAY WEDDINGS
: Olga Viripaeff to SF
RADIATED HAPPINESS, DELAYED CHILDHOOD
: 10/18/69
Family Weekly
FIRST TIME PREGNANT
: Natalie Wood, excerpt, AMC’s
Hollywood Real to Reel
JUNE ’70 DINNER PARTY
: Linda Foreman to SF, 9/16/99;
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star;
“Natalie Wood’s Real-Life Romantic Comedy,” Judy Klemesrud,
New York Times
, 2/10/80; “Happily Ever After,” Jon Land,
Saturday Evening Post
, March 1979; 12/76
People;
11/74
Photoplay;
3/86
GQ
; 11/85
Parade;
12/76
Donahue;
8/75
Cosmopolitan
; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
NATASHA’S BIRTH HAPPIEST MOMENT
: 10/79
Orange Coast
ANOTHER CHANCE AT CHILDHOOD; UPSET AT MUD: Lana Wood to SF
NATASHINKA
: Natalie Wood’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin
THOUGHTS ON MOTHERHOOD
: 9/72
Modern Screen
AFFAIR WITH SECRETARY, RESTRAINING ORDER
: Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Leslie Bricusse to SF; Lana Wood to SF; “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 4/79
Look;
11/71
Modern Screen
; 11/71
Motion Picture
; 8/75
Cosmopolitan
; 11/71
Photoplay;
Peggy Griffin to SF; Bob Jiras to SF
ISOLATED SELF, TRANQUILIZERS
: Lana Wood to SF; 8/17/71
Daily Variety;
“Natalie Wood Tells,” Renee Haverhill,
Photoplay
, April 1972
UPSET, STOPPED EATING, SARDINIA, OLGA COMMENTS
: Olga Viripaeff to SF; 4/72
Photoplay;
Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood” 334, 336 CALL FROM R.J.; CALLS AGAIN: Natalie Wood, 12/76
Donahue;
Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 8/11/71
Daily Variety
(R.J. in town); “New Rules For A Second Marriage,” Vernon Scott,
Photoplay
, November 1974; 2/10/80
New York Times
; 12/76
People; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
; 11/85
Parade
TINA CRUSH ON R.J
.: 9/70
Rona Barrett’s Hollywood
NOT WHEN; FRANCE
: 10/19/71
Hollywood Reporter;
10/18/71
Hollywood Reporter
(villa)
THOUGHT WORLD; SEPARATE DIRECTIONS; ZIFFREN FINANCES
: Peggy Griffin to SF
DATED MCQUEEN
: Peggy Griffin to SF; Neile Adams to SF; Dennis Roberts to SF (sunglasses); Lana Wood to SF; 10/29 & 12/27/71
Hollywood Reporter;
“How Steve McQueen Ended Her Heartache,” Carol Welles,
Photoplay
, 2/72; “Ali Crushed,” June Thayer,
Movie World
, 4/73; “All About Those Dates Between Natalie Wood And Steve McQueen,”
Movieland
, 2/72
DATED JERRY BROWN
: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; 2/72
Photoplay
SMEDLEY NOTICED
: “How Bob Makes Natalie Feel Like a Bride Every Night,” Marcia Borie,
Photoplay
, 11/72
NATASHA PROTECTED HER; R.J. LIKE ROMEO
: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
PERFECT LOVE
: 4/72
Photoplay
NURSERY RHYMES
: “A World of Her Own,” Tim de Lisle,
Daily
Telegraph Weekend Magazine
, 12/12/98
FAVOR FOR REDFORD, LAST CONTACT
: Robert Redford to SF
MINK AND JEANS, PLAYED LAST SCENE
:
Filming “The Candidate
,” Bruce Bahrenburg, Warner Books Inc., New York, 1972
PLAINTIVE CALL
: Edie Adams to SF
HOLIDAY PLANS
: 12/28/71 & 1/4/72
Daily Variety
RECONNECTED AT CHRISTMAS: Peggy Griffin to SF; Lana Wood to SF; 11/74
Photoplay
(stopped by with gifts; “instant attraction”); 8/72
Photoplay
(R.J. felt nostalgic, Natalie like a girl again); 12/72
People
(went on 1/26); “Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner’s Baby Girl,” Henry Gris,
Photoplay
, 6/74 (together from Palm Springs on); 3/86
GQ
(secretly in Palm Springs); 8/75
Cosmopolitan
(understanding they’d remarry)
BAILED R.J. OUT
: 3/86
GQ
LANA WORRIED; DEVIL YOU KNOW; GOT WHAT WANTED
: Lana Wood to SF; Robert Hyatt to SF; “My Sister, Natalie Wood,” Sally Ogle Davis,
Ladies Home Journal
, 11/82
R.J. NICE; NATALIE WENT OUT OF HER WAY
: Sugar Bates to SF
TOWNHOUSE FOR GURDINS
: “We’d Be Crazy Not to Remarry,” Lee Alexander,
Silver Screen
, 8/72
NEEDED BODYGUARDS
: 4/14/72
Hollywood Reporter
ZEITENSPRUNG
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan;
Mickey Ziffren,
The Movies
, 10/83
R.J. SELDOM ON WATER, WANTED BACK; HUNTING “OUR BOAT”
:9/27/81
San Antonio Light
WORST STORMS
: “We Almost Died Together,” Polly Terry,
Photoplay
, 1/74; 4/24/72
New York Daily News
(made headlines)
TOOK PHOTOGRAPHER ALONG
: Michael Childers, “The Final Days”
NEITHER RELIGIOUS
: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF (used astrologer Carroll Righter); “Pregnant Natalie Wood Cries,”
Movie Life
, 1/74 (used Righter)
WEDDING
: 11/74
Photoplay;
“Natalie Gives Us Her Wedding Album!” Marcia Borie,
Silver
Screen, October 1972; 10/72
Modern Screen
; 11/72
Rona Barrett’s Hollywood
SEASICK
: 1/76
TV Radio Mirror;
Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
GRIFFIN COMMENTS
: Peggy Griffin to SF
TOUGH FOR NATALIE
: Lana Wood to SF
RETREAT FROM
GATSBY
: Natalie Wood, 10/76 San Francisco Film Festival; 6/74
Photoplay
TV LESS PRESTIGE
: 11/78 Hollywood Reporter
CATES COMMENTS
: Gilbert Cates to SF, 12/22/99
LETTER FROM NATALIE TO RUTH GORDON
: courtesy of Barry Redmond
GLASS HOUSE, KNIT BLANKET
: 1/74
Photoplay
INTRIGUED WITH IDEA
: 6/20/74
Daily Variety
MOST WANTED BABY
: 8/74
Modern Screen
CRANE’S DEATH
: Scott Marlowe to SF
SCARED DURING CHILDBIRTH
: “Natalie Wood: Save My Baby,”
Motion Picture
, 7/74
INFERNO
BORING; CONVINCED R.J. TO MOVE; LOST 50 POUNDS
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan
; 6/20/74
Daily Variety
(800-calorie diet)
A BIT MUCH; NAPOLEON: 8/79
McCall’s
; 4/79
Look
TOLD TOM SNYDER
: 2/14/80
Tomorrow
MADE A PACT
: numerous published interviews with Wood and Wagner
RATH COMMENTS
: Earl Rath, Jr., to SF, 1/4/00
APPEALING WAIF
: “Michael Caine Is a ‘Peeper,’ ”Richard Cuskelly,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 12/3/75
GAVE IT THEIR ALL
: 3/76
TV Star Parade
345, 348 DIDN’T WORK; GREGSON’S KIDS SPENT SUMMERS: Peggy Griffin to SF
SEMI-RETIREMENT
: 3/76
Movie World
HOUSE LESS SHOWY; ANALYST FOR GIRLS
: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF
ZEST FOR LIFE
: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
ENJOYING THEIR CHILDHOOD
: “Natalie Wood: Our Sexual Conscience on the Silver Screen?”
L’Officiel/USA
, August 1980
SPOILED ROTTEN
: “Out Of The Woods,” Claire Lovat,
The Sunday Times
, 12/6/98
FACTS OF LIFE AT 4
: “Revealing Talent,” Jamie Painter,
Back Stage West Drama-Logue
, 1/21/99 (talked about sex); 8/80
L’Officiel
(not proper)
NOT AN OPTION
: “Whatever: Natasha Gregson Wagner,” Steve Hochman,
Los Angeles Times
, 1/3/99
SNIFFED BRANCHES; GUEST COTTAGE WITH SIGNS
: Rex Reed, “Remembering Natalie,” “Ovation,” USA, a Cerberns Production
CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
: 10/77
Bon Appetit;
Peggy Griffin to SF; Lana Wood to SF; Gil Cates to SF
HOLLYWOOD COUPLE
: Karl Malden to SF
PUT NATALIE ON STAGE
: Roderick Mann to SF; Lana Wood to SF
NORMALCY HAS MYSTIQUE
: 10/26/76
San Francisco Chronicle
GREGSON’S LIFE CHANGED; IRON BUTTERFLY
: Leslie Bricusse to SF
FOUND
SPLENDOUR
: 9/27/81
San Antonio Light
WHY DID THEY
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn
THIS LITTLE THING
: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”
MOORING AT EMERALD BAY
: Doug Bombard to SF, 10/10/99
REMEMBERS MOMMY AS SOLID
: 12/12/98
Daily Telegraph
DON’T MAKE IT SOUND
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan
GRIFFIN COMMENTS
: Peggy Griffin to SF
LANA COMMENTS
: Lana Wood to SF
INSTABILITY NEVER FAR; USED KNIFE AS MIRROR
: Leslie Bricusse to SF
GIFT THAT FELL
: “Raising the Curtain on ‘Cat,’ ” Cecil Smith,
TV
Times;
12/5/76
SPENT TIME WITH WILLIAMS
: unsourced 7/76 U.K. interview, BFI file on Natalie Wood
LISTENED TO FRIENDS: Natalie Wood, 12/76
Donahue
COMPARED OLIVIER TO DEAN
: 10/26/76
San Francisco Chronicle
STAPLETON COMMENTS
: Maureen Stapleton to SF, 2/7/00
TINY LITTLE THING
: 3/77
Photoplay
MIXED REVIEWS
: “This Tribute Smacks of Exploitation,” John J. O’Connor,
The New York Times
, 12/5/76
MIDDLE-AGED SQUARES
: 10/77
Los Angeles Times Home Magazine
PARTIES
: 10/77
Bon Appetit;
Lana Wood to SF
NEAME COMMENTS
: Ronald Neame to SF, 1/9/99
CHOSE IT FOR RUSSIAN ACCENT
: 10/79
Orange Coast
TAPED MUD’S VOICE
: 2/79
New York Daily News;
12/77
Motion Picture
CHARACTERIZATION
: Natalie Wood interview,
Meteor
magazine, Warren Publishing, 1979
BATES COMMENTS
: Sugar Bates to SF
NEAME COMPLAINED ABOUT MAKEUP
: “Film Casting,” Jerry Cohen and Ronald L. Soble,
Los Angeles Times
, 7/4/78
LOOKED HARD
: Robert Werden to SF, 9/20/99
MASON COMMENTS; EVIL-LOOKING
: Ginger Mason to SF, 8/24/99
SYLBERTS’ COMMENTS
: Richard and Sharmagne Sylbert to SF, 6/17/99
ADORED EACH OTHER; ALWAYS DOING THINGS
: Roselle Gordon to SF
MALDEN COMMENTS
: Karl Malden to SF
INTERVIEW DURING
METEOR
: 10/78
Preview
REQUESTED TRAIN
: 10/21/79
Washington Post