This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition.Format: PaperbackAuthor: Gavin LambertISBN10: 0823088294ISBN13: 9780823088294 She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see inMiracle on 34th Street.Her adolescence inRebel Without a Cause.Her coming of age? Still playing inSplendor in the GrassandWest Side Storyand countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946, playing Claudette Colbert and Orson Welless ward inTomorrow Is Foreverat the age of seven, to her shocking, untimely death in 1981, the decades of her life are marked by movies thatfor their momentssummed up Americas dreams. Now the acclaimed novelist, biographer, critic and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novelInside Daisy Clover,tells her extraordinary story. He writes about her parents, uncovering secrets that Natalie either didnt know or kept hidden from those closest to her. Here is the young Natalie, from her years as a child actress at the mercy of a driven, controlling stage mother Make Mr. Pichel love you, she whispered to the five-year-old Natalie before depositing her unexpectedly on the directors lap , to her awkward adolescence when, suddenly too old for kiddie roles, she was shunted aside, just another freshman at Van Nuys High. Lambert shows us the glamorous movie star in her twentiesAll the Fine Young Cannibals, GypsyandLove with the Proper Stranger. He writes about her marriages, her divorces, her love affairs, her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children, her friendships, her struggles as an actress and her tragic death by drowning she was always terrified of water at forty-three. For the first time, everyone who knew Natalie Wood speaks freelyincluding her husbands Robert Wagner and Richard Gregson, famously private people like Warren Beatty, intimate friends such as playwright Mart Crowley, directors Robert Mulligan and Paul Mazursky, and Leslie Caron, each of whom told the author stories about this remarkable woman who was both life-loving and filled with despair. What we couldnt knowhave never been told beforeLambert perceptively uncovers. His book provides the richest portrait we have had of Natalie Wood. This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition. She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see inMiracle on 34th Street.Her adolescence inRebel Without a Cause.Her coming of age? Still playing inSplendor in the GrassandWest Side Storyand countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946, playing Claudette Colbert and Orson Welless ward inTomorrow Is Foreverat the age of seven, to her shocking, untimely death in 1981, the decades of her life are marked by movies thatfor their momentssummed up Americas dreams. Now the acclaimed novelist, biographer, critic and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novelInside Daisy Clover,tells her extraordinary story. He writes about her parents, uncovering secrets that Natalie either didnt know or kept hidden from those closest to her. Here is the young Natalie, from her years as a child actress at the mercy of a driven, controlling stage mother (Make Mr. Pichel love you, she whispered to the five-year-old Natalie before depositing her unexpectedly on the directors lap), to her awkward adolescence when, suddenly too old for kiddie roles, she was shunted aside, just another freshman at Van Nuys High. Lambert shows us the glamorous movie star in her twentiesAll the Fine Young Cannibals, GypsyandLove with the Proper Stranger. He writes about her marriages, her divorces, her love affairs, her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children, her friendships, her struggles as an actress and her tragic death by drowning (she was always terrified of water) at forty-three. For the first time, everyone who knew Natalie Wood speaks freelyincluding her husbands Robert Wagner and Richard Gregson, famously private people like Warren Beatty, intimate friends such as playwright Mart Crowley, directors Robert Mulligan and Paul Mazursky, and Leslie Caron, each of whom told the author stories about this remarkable woman who was both life-loving and filled with despair. What we couldnt knowhave never been told beforeLambert perceptively uncovers. His book provides the richest portrait we have had of Natalie Wood.
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