NATALIE: A MATCH MADE IN HOLLYWOOD - EP3

07/27/18 • 21 min

Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner marry in a fairy tale Hollywood union — but beneath the shiny surface of their romance lurks rage and jealousy. In a fit of envy, Wagner rushes to the home of Natalie’s costar, Warren Beatty, with a gun and the intent to do murder. Nothing happens, although Natalie soon makes a shocking discovery — her husband in a romantic rendezvous with another man! The couple conclude their first marriage — but the deck of fate still had a future reunion waiting in the cards.

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NATALIE: A REBELLIOUS TEEN - EP2

From her earliest years, Natalie Wood was bred for fame and fortune – and also destruction. We’ll chart how her mother, Marie Gurden, would stop at nothing to see her daughter’s name in lights, once even looking away after her daughter’s rape for fear it would anger the studio system that would decide her fate. Ironically, these decisions pushed Natalie on to a path that ended with Robert Wagner — and a tumultuous romance that ended in tragedy.

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NATALIE: PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS, PERSONAL MESS - EP4

Robert Wagner - all-American boy-next-door or conniving manipulator who’d stop at nothing to achieve Tinsel Town fame and fortune? That is the question we answer by charting the actor’s rise to stardom, as well as examining the havoc such obsessive pursuit left in its wake. As his first marriage to Natalie Wood - some would say one of convenience - lay tattered, Natalie attempts to carry on with her “Splendor in the Grass” costar Warren Beatty. But the devastation left by Wagner - and the end of her romance with Beatty - prove too much, and result in a harrowing suicide attempt recounted here in vivid detail by her sister, Lana. But Natalie emerges stronger than ever from the near-fatal episode and finally takes control of her life.