Natalie wood robert wagner biography

In , Wood drowned during a boating trip with husband Robert Wagner and Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken. The circumstances of her death remain controversial. Her mother, Maria, enrolled her ballet classes as a small child. At the age of 4, Wood landed her first film role, a bit part in Happy Land , which happened to be filming in Santa Rosa, California, where she was living at the time.

She had won over director Irving Pichel after her mother orchestrated their introduction. Later, Wood said that her mother told her to "make Mr. Pichel love you.

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The dark-haired, doe-eyed girl soon made other film appearances. Wood tugged at the heartstrings of audiences with her small role as an orphan in the drama Tomorrow Is Forever, with Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles. In , she again won over fans with her first starring role, in Miracle on 34th Street. The movie, about a girl who questions the existence of Santa Claus, made Wood as a star.