Natalie and R.J.
The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner
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Publisher Description
Their relationship was that of fairy tales. Their devotion so intense they wed each other not once, but twice. In the first book to focus on both Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, the author of the bestseller Gable & Lombard and the critically acclaimed book Cary Grant gives us a scintillating portrait of this glamorous and exciting couple from their early years working for the studio system to the final, shattering hours before Natalie Wood's life tragically ended. We follow them on their roller-coaster ride of the ups and downs and the magic and the madness of this couple who became Hollywood royalty.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harris ( Gable & Lombard , etc.) here presents a dual biography, of Natalie Wood and Robert J. Wagner, describing their lives up to the actress's death by drowning in 1981. Natasha Gurdin, daughter of poor Russian immigrants, was pushed into professionally performing soon after she was born in 1938 and became a child star in the film Miracle on 34th Street. R.J., however, grew up in a well-off family and chose to be an actor. The two performers married in 1957; he was 27, she was 19. The so-called ideal couple's divorce three years later surprised the film colony. Each re-wed and divorced, then remarried each other again in 1972, ``this time for good.'' Embellished by gossip, the text nevertheless offers solid information about the two stars' careers. Readers will feel renewed sadness over the tragedy that caused Wood's untimely death.
