News

Natalie Wood’s daughter Courtney, was just seven years old when her mother died by drowning off the coast of Catalina Island on Nov. 29, 1981. Leaving her and her eleven-year-old sister Natasha, motherless overnight.

Now 49, Natasha Gregson Wagner is sharing the story of their family’s grief and healing in her memoir More Than Love, and the HBO documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, airing May 5 on the network.

Part of that story is how Courtney, 46, the daughter of Wood and husband Robert Wagner, once struggled with drug addiction and how she found her path to sobriety. “Courtney is somebody who...

Natalie Wood’s daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner, marked the 90th birthday of her stepfather, Robert Wagner, by posting a rare family photo on Instagram on Monday. She describes it as “the first posed family photo we have taken in a couple of decades.”

Gregon Wagner, 49, is the daughter of Natalie Wood and her second husband, Richard Gregson. (She refers to Gregson and Wagner as her two dads and calls the latter “Daddy Wagner.”)

To mark Wagner’s 90th birthday on February 10, Natasha writes, “My sisters and I did not know what to give my Dad for his 90th birthday. What...

Nearly 40 years after Natalie Wood died under mysterious circumstances, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators say her widower Robert Wagner is “more of a person of interest” in the case.

The Hollywood star was married to Wagner from 1972 until her death.

Though Wagner has largely remained tight-lipped about Wood’s death, he’s opened up in recent years about his family’s heartbreak.

“We were all so shattered by the loss, and we were hanging on to each other,” Wagner told People in 2016 for a cover story on her passing. “You just take it moment by moment and hope that it gets better.

He’s wooed — and worked with — some of the biggest actresses of his time, including Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and his one-time wife, Natalie Wood. And now Robert Wagner has written a memoir, titled I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood’s Legendary Actresses, as a tribute to some of his favorite screen stars.

“I had this gift of meeting wonderful women and working with a lot of them and it was amazing,” says the 86-year-old actor. “They made an imprint on me and on all of our lives.”

Perhaps no one made more of a mark than Wood,...

Natalie Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner is opening up about the private side of the beloved mother she lost in a tragic boating accident. Subscribe now for the exclusive untold story, only in People.After her mom's death, Natalie Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner remembers how her stepfather Robert Wagner confirmed the news she had drowned. "It was just the unthinkable," says Natasha. "I just remember it was the worst thing ever. My whole world just went to black and white and I couldn’t hear anything…" In the months and years that followed, Natasha, 45, the daughter of...

Natalie Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner is opening up about the private side of the beloved mother she lost in a tragic boating accident. Subscribe now for the exclusive untold story, only in People.After her mom's death, Natalie Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner remembers how her stepfather Robert Wagner confirmed the news she had drowned. "It was just the unthinkable," says Natasha. "I just remember it was the worst thing ever. My whole world just went to black and white and I couldn’t hear anything…" In the months and years that followed, Natasha, 45, the daughter of...

35 years after Natalie Wood drowned while sailing off Catalina Island, her former husband Robert Wagner 86, speaks to People in this week's cover story about his family's heartbreak and his close bond with his stepdaughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner. "We were all so shattered by the loss, and we were hanging on to each other," Wagner tells People. "My bond with Natasha is very, very intense. We've hung onto each other through the years and she means the world to me." After Natalie's death on November 29, 1981, Wagner and Natasha's father, Natalie's second husband Richard Gregson, decided that Wagner would continue to raise Natasha,...

35 years after Natalie Wood drowned while sailing off Catalina Island, her former husband Robert Wagner 86, speaks to People in this week's cover story about his family's heartbreak and his close bond with his stepdaughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner. "We were all so shattered by the loss, and we were hanging on to each other," Wagner tells People. "My bond with Natasha is very, very intense. We've hung onto each other through the years and she means the world to me." After Natalie's death on November 29, 1981, Wagner and Natasha's father, Natalie's second husband Richard Gregson, decided that Wagner would continue to raise Natasha,...

Cary Grant films on TCM: Gender-bending 'I Was a Male War Bride' (photo: Cary Grant not gay at all in 'I Was a Male War Bride') More Cary Grant films will be shown tonight, as Turner Classic Movies continues with its Star of the Month presentations. On TCM right now is the World War II action-drama Destination Tokyo (1943), in which Grant finds himself aboard a U.S. submarine, alongside John Garfield, Dane Clark, Robert Hutton, and Tom Tully, among others. The directorial debut of screenwriter Delmer Daves (The Petrified Forest, Love Affair) -- who, in the following decade, would direct a series of classy Westerns, e.g., 3:10 to Yuma, The Hanging Tree -- Destination Tokyo is pure flag-waving propaganda, plodding its way through the dangerous waters of Hollywood war-movie stereotypes and speechifying banalities. The film's key point of interest, in fact, is Grant himself -- not because he's any good,...

Rex Harrison hat on TCM: ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Anna and the King of Siam’ Rex Harrison is Turner Classic Movies’ final "Summer Under the Stars" star today, August 31, 2013. TCM is currently showing George Cukor’s lavish My Fair Lady (1964), an Academy Award-winning musical that has (in my humble opinion) unfairly lost quite a bit of its prestige in the last several decades. Rex Harrison, invariably a major ham whether playing Saladin, the King of Siam, Julius Caesar, the ghost of a dead sea captain, or Richard Burton’s lover, is for once flawlessly cast as Professor Henry Higgins, who on stage transformed Julie Andrews from cockney duckling to diction-master swan and who in the movie version does the same for Audrey Hepburn. Harrison, by the way, was the year’s Best Actor Oscar winner. (See also: "Audrey Hepburn vs. Julie Andrews: Biggest Oscar Snubs.") Following My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison...

Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? creator Gary K. Wolf has confirmed via his official website, pretending to be a "source" known as "Walter Windchill," that Walt Disney Studios is moving forward with a 3D animated/live-action remake of the 1952 comedy classic The Stooge that will team-up Mickey Mouse with Roger Rabbit in roles originated by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Take a look at the 'Disney Development Proposal' artwork for this project that is in active development, then read on for more information.

The Stooge, released in 1952, starred Dean Martin as a Broadway performer who finds success with a new vaudville act, although it is mainly because of the "stooge" (Jerry Lewis) he hires, who captures most of the spotlight. Mickey Mouse will play the Dean Martin character, with Roger Rabbit playing Jerry Lewis' stooge role.

The story is said to have the same kind of sensibilities as Pixar hits...

Natalie Wood death: From "accidental drowning" to "drowning and other undetermined factors" Natalie Wood died on November 29, 1981. Her body was found floating about one mile from Catalina Island, located just south of Los Angeles County. According to a County coroner’s report publicly released today — though officially revised in June 2012 — at the time of her death Natalie Wood, a three-time Academy Award nominee and the star of the multiple Oscar-winning musical West Side Story, had several bruises on her body that might have been the result of injuries suffered before she entered the water. (See also: "Natalie Wood Death: Sensational Rumors Continue.") [Photo: Natalie Wood ca. 1970.] "With the presence of fresh bruises in the upper extremities in the right forearm/left wrist area and a small scratch in the anterior neck, this examiner is unable to exclude non-accidental mechanism causing these injuries," wrote chief medical examiner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran. "The location of the bruises,...