Natalie Wood, Gavin Lambert
Natalie Wood, Gavin Lambert
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Natalie Wood
A Life

Author: Gavin Lambert

Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld

Unabridged: 13 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2007

Synopsis

From her starring roles as a skeptical child in the perennial classic Miracle on 34th Street and a troubled adolescent in Rebel without a Cause to mature roles in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story, actress Natalie Wood transfixed the world with her hypnotic brown eyes. Yet behind the beautiful façade lurked a fragile, sparkling, generous, funny woman traumatized by her childhood and beset by personal demons. In this landmark biography, her close personal friend Gavin Lambert sets out to tell her extraordinary story with the help of intimate interviews from her friends and colleagues including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and her husband Robert Wagner. What emerges is a luminous, assiduously researched portrait that sheds new light on the life and tragic death of the silver screen's most beguiling star

About Gavin Lambert

Gavin Lambert was born and educated in England. He is the author of both biographies and novels, including Inside Daisy Clover and The Goodbye People. His screenplays include The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone starring Warren Beatty and Vivien Leigh, Inside Daisy Clover starring Robert Redford and Natalie Wood, the Oscar-nominated Sons and Lovers, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Lambert lived in Tangier from 1974 to 1988 and presently lives in Los Angeles.

About Robert Blumenfeld

Robert Blumenfeld has recorded over two hundred audio books during his lengthy career. His theater credits include Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Othello, and The Purified Prince. His television and film credits include As the World Turns, Sesame Street, Une Femme Ou Deux, and The Awful Truth. He is also the recipient of the 1999 Alexander Scourby Talking Book Narrator of the Year Award and the 1977 Special Tony Award from the National Theatre of the Deaf.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donald

One HOT read! I know she ended up in the drink, and there's a lot of talk about how she ended up there, but thankfully this book doesnt dwell on any of that. I don't know who killed her, but I do know a lot of guys tagged her back in the day, including that Warren Beatty, who was at that John McCain......more

Goodreads review by Christina

This was quite an interesting take on the life of one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Natalie Wood was one of the few people to survive child stardom and to live a life beyond it...yet you get the feeling from this book, written by her friend, the writer Gavin Lambert, that she never really escaped fr......more

Awards

  • New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books
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