43 years later...

She drowned. I have always wondered whether Carol Wayne’s similar death was under investigation by the same suspects.

Well, yes, she drowned. I meant what were the circumstances? Accident by herself? Accident by Robert or Christopher? Murder? Suicide?

She was drunk and had a fight with Robert Wagner, and fell overboard. Weird circumstances, though. Weirdly Christopher Walken escaped the scandal.

Accident. Whatever kind of relationship she had with Wagner they clearly adored each other.

I used to love that old joke about what kind of wood doesn't float.

Q: why doesn’t natalie wood shower?

A: she prefers to wash up on the beach.

R4. They adored each other but they were both heavy drinkers. What you would call blackout drinkers today.

It seemed like the marriage had issues.

Drunk and trying to get in a rowboat to make the big display of getting away from Wagner. Fell in. Source: living with dramatic drunks

I think she and Walken were probably openly flirting. All three were drunk. Moral of the story: don't be a third wheel at a dysfunctional couple's drinking party.

I can still hear her final word….

“Splash”

Fun Fact: Natalie Wood and Diana Rigg were both born July 20, 1938.

I agree with R8, although I wonder if there's something to the persistent rumor that Wagner and Walken did more with each other than just share Wood.

Oh, they shared wood all right.

I’ve never understood why people didn’t pull her out from under those mysterious circumstances and try to help her???

I mean, why leave her there to die?

She found Wagner and Walken fucking and freaked out.

What a gorgeous photo, R11!

I was never a big fan of Miss Wood, never got her appeal as an actress, but that image captures the physical beauty I've always seen in her.

Scientology?

Hasn't Wagner been rumored to be bi?

I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for RJ, who was friends with my late sister. On at least one occasion, she enlisted him to call my father on his birthday with well wishes.

In April, Natalie will be dead as long as she lived.

Thatsh why i do t go on boats.

R14, I think once they realized she wasn’t on the boat they tried.

What kind of wood does not float???

Anyone who read the thread does, R23.

Drownings just happen.

Well, if Chrish or Rahrbert killed the lash, then she mushtve had it coming. A woman needsh a little shlap now and then, and shome need moore.

Rumor is that Robert Conrad and Robert Wagner had an affair when they were young pretty boys.

Wasn't there a rumor about Wagner and Spencer Tracy when they did The Mountain?

[Quote] Hasn't Wagner been rumored to be bi?

I asked him that once but didn’t get an answer until I had come and he took my penis out of his mouth.

Spencer Tracy sucked more cock in Hollywood than Joan Crawford and Lana Turner combined

Nobody sucked more cock in Hollywood than Joan.

My question has always been “Why Catalina? I grew up in Southern California (Culver City, Anaheim and Long Beach) and lived there until I was 40 . Went to Catalina one time, the summer before ninth grade. It’s very tourist-y. In Lauren Bacall’s autobio, she and Bogie had a boat slip in Newport Beach/Balboa and went there frequently. That seems more fitting for stars of that magnitude, no matter what generation.

Because it’s there, duh. Where else are you sailing to for an “overnight?” You didn’t learn much back in LB, did you?

Rumor has it that Nat divorced RJ the first time because she walked in on him in bed with his butler.

RJ had a better time with me than those no-talents.