{"id":1930191,"date":"2023-05-13T05:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-mysterious-drowning-of-natalie-wood\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T05:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:47:21","slug":"the-mysterious-drowning-of-natalie-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-mysterious-drowning-of-natalie-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Wood&#8217;s Mysterious Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-mysterious-drowning-of-natalie-wood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Tragic Life and Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood<\/h2>\n<p>Natalie Wood was a Hollywood icon, known for her talent and beauty. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-commerce-secretary-is-a-former-venture-capitalist-but-some-gopers-warn-shell-be-soft-on-china\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Commerce Secretary Is A Former Venture Capitalist, But Some GOPers Warn She\u2019ll Be \u2018Soft On China\u2019\">career began<\/a> as a child actor, and she went on to star in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-mysterious-drowning-of-natalie-wood\/\" title=\"Natalie Wood's Mysterious Drowning\">films alongside legendary actors<\/a> like James Dean, Gregory Peck, and Warren Beatty. But her life was not without its struggles, and in 1981, Wood drowned in the Pacific Ocean under mysterious circumstances.<\/p>\n<h3>Early Life and Career<\/h3>\n<p>Wood\u2019s parents were Russian immigrants who met in America and married in 1938, five months before she was born. Her birth name was Natalie Zacharenko, but her last name was changed to Wood by RKO executives David Lewis and William Goetz after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sheriff-good-samaritan-robbed-beaten-while-helping-woman-on-highway\/\" title=\"Sheriff: Good Samaritan Robbed, Beaten While Helping Woman on Highway\">began acting<\/a> in an effort to make her more appealing to English-speaking audiences.<\/p>\n<p>In 1942, Woods\u2019 parents moved to Santa Rosa, California, where 4-year-old Natalie was noticed by crew members working on a film shoot. Before she was even 5, Wood appeared in her first movie, \u201cHappy Land,\u201d in which she had an uncredited, 15-second scene.<\/p>\n<p>Wood acted in two more movies before she landed her best-known childhood role in \u201cMiracle on 34th Street.\u201d The film became a Christmas classic, and the year it was released, Macy\u2019s invited Wood to appear in its annual Thanksgiving Day parade.<\/p>\n<h3>Teenage Years and Personal Life<\/h3>\n<p>Wood\u2019s fame didn\u2019t end when she became a teenager. She received roles in several TV shows and major films. She was able to cement a successful transition from child to teen actor when she was cast alongside James Dean in \u201cRebel Without a Cause,\u201d for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.<\/p>\n<p>While her fame was on an upward trajectory, her personal life was not as pleasant. In 1957, at age 19, she married actor Robert Wagner, but the couple divorced in 1962, a year after Wood starred in \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d After her divorce, Wood reportedly dated Warren Beatty, Michael Caine, and David Niven Jr. before getting engaged to Venezuelan shoe manufacturer Ladislav Blatnik. The two broke off their engagement in 1965. Four years later, Wood married British producer Richard Gregson after the pair dated for three years. The couple had a daughter in 1970, and divorced two years later.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her divorce being finalized, Wood and her first husband, Robert Wagner, reconciled and remarried on July 16, 1972. Their daughter was born in 1974.<\/p>\n<h3>Tragic Death and Unsolved Mystery<\/h3>\n<p>In 1981, Wood began filming \u201cBrainstorm\u201d alongside Christopher Walken. Wood, her husband, Walken, and the captain of Wagner\u2019s yacht, Dennis Davern, went out for a boat ride on the Pacific Ocean to take a break from production on November 28. The next morning \u2014 at around 8 a.m. on November 29 \u2014 Wood\u2019s body was recovered about a mile away from the boat, along with a small inflatable dinghy on the beach nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner initially told police that Wood wasn\u2019t with him when he went to bed that night. He also initially denied arguing with Wood the night before her death, but eventually admitted to it in his memoir \u201cPieces of My Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy revealed that Wood had bruises on her body and arms, a cut on her left cheek, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-run-yall-budget-bro-michigan-democrat-warned-state-troopers-after-stop-for-driving-drunk-report-says\/\" title=\"\u2018I Run Y\u2019All Budget, Bro\u2019: Michigan Democrat Warned State Troopers After Stop For Driving Drunk, Report Says\">blood alcohol content<\/a> of 0.14%. She also had traces of a motion-sickness pill and painkiller in her system. Though she had various injuries, it couldn\u2019t be determined when she received them. L.A. County Coroner Thomas Noguchi suggested Wood was drinking and slipped while trying to get back onto the dinghy, but her younger sister Lana dismissed the possibility. Wood had been afraid of water her entire life, Lana said, and would never have gotten onto the dinghy by herself.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times reported that two witnesses on a nearby boat told police they heard a woman scream for help on the night Wood died.<\/p>\n<p>Because \u201cBrainstorm\u201d hadn\u2019t completed filming, a stand-in and sound-alikes were used to replace Wood in remaining scenes. The film was released in 1983 with a dedication to Wood in the closing credits.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2011, the investigation into Wood\u2019s death was reopened, after Davern admitted that he had lied to police in 1981. At the time, he said Wood and Wagner had been arguing the night she died. Davern said that Wagner became jealous and angry when he thought Wood was flirting with Walken. Davern at the time also said Wagner hadn\u2019t let him turn on the boat\u2019s search lights or call authorities to report Wood missing.<\/p>\n<p>Walken has never been considered a suspect in Wood\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, L.A. County Chief Coroner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran changed Wood\u2019s official cause of death from accidental drowning to \u201cdrowning and other undetermined factors,\u201d adding that it was \u201cnot clearly established\u201d how Wood ended up in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, a former intern under Noguchi, who was now a medical doctor, said that Wood\u2019s bruises were substantial and could be a match for someone who had been thrown from a boat, an observation he said he made to Noguchi.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Wagner was named a person of interest in Wood\u2019s death, with police saying he was the last person to see her alive. Police also said it was possible Wood had been assaulted before she went into the water and drowned.<\/p>\n<p>As of May 2023, the story of Wood\u2019s death remains frustratingly incomplete.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Childhood:<\/strong> Natalie Wood began her Hollywood career as a child actor before going on to star in films alongside legendary actors like James Dean, Gregory Peck, and Warren Beatty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Personal Life:<\/strong> Wood had a tumultuous personal life, including multiple marriages and relationships with famous men like Warren Beatty and Michael Caine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tragic Death:<\/strong> Wood drowned in the Pacific Ocean under mysterious circumstances while filming \u201cBrainstorm\u201d in 1981. Her death remains unsolved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the mystery surrounding her death, Natalie Wood\u2019s legacy as a talented and beloved actress lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Wood began her Hollywood career as a child actor before going on to star in films alongside legendary actors like James Dean, Gregory Peck, and Warren Beatty. In 1981, Wood, 43, drowned in the Pacific Ocean under mysterious circumstances. This is her story. Wood\u2019s parents were Russian immigrants who met in America and married<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1930192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[13843,8875,26652,4779],"class_list":["post-1930191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-drowning","tag-mysterious","tag-natalie","tag-woods"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}