{"product_id":"natalie-wood-a-life-paperback","title":"Natalie Wood: A Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGavin Lambert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica watched Natalie Wood grow up on the silver screen. You can still see her childhood in \u003ci\u003eMiracle on 34th Street\u003c\/i\u003e and her adolescence in \u003ci\u003eRebel Without a Cause\u003c\/i\u003e. Her coming of age? Still playing in \u003ci\u003eSplendor in the Grass \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story \u003c\/i\u003eand countless other timeless movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her cinematic debut in 1946 in \u003ci\u003eTomorrow Is Forever\u003c\/i\u003e to her shocking, untimely death in 1981, the decades of her life are punctuated by movies that even today, reside in the hearts and imagination of the American people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed novelist, biographer, critic, and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she starred in the movie adaptation of his novel \u003ci\u003eInside Daisy Clover\u003c\/i\u003e, recounts her extraordinary story. He relays to us details about her personal life, from her love affairs to her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children to her friendships, her struggles as an actress to her tragic and mysterious death at the age of forty-three. For the first time, everyone who was close to Natalie Wood speaks freely -- including 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 so full of life but always on the brink of despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGavin Lambert \u003c\/b\u003e(1924-2005) was a British-born screenwriter, novelist, and biographer. His film biographies include \u003ci\u003eOn Cukor, Norma Shearer: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMainly About Lindsay Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161156227207,"sku":"9780813153407","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b9fa09c012425ae2370a02e2059f15c4.webp?v=1733278799","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/natalie-wood-a-life-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}