In 1981, Hollywood actress Natalie Wood drowned, causing a sensation in the United States. The beautiful actress, who had won a Golden Globe and three-time Oscar nominations, died so suddenly that the event was listed by Hollywood as the top ten news of the year.
Of course, the reason why Natalie's death has attracted widespread social attention is not only because she is a celebrity, but also related to the unknown death of natalie.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > bright stars and unfortunate families of origin</h1>
Natalie's family is a Russian immigrant, her father is an alcoholic man, and her mother is an unsuccessful ballet dancer. The family has three daughters, all of whom are good-looking, and the second daughter, Natalie, is even more radiant, inheriting all the advantages of her parents' appearance.
At the age of 4, on the recommendation of her mother, the sweet-looking Natalie was given a chance to appear on camera, although it was only 15 seconds, but it changed Natalie's life.
A year later, the director of the film was planning a new film, remembered the well-behaved Natalie, and invited her to audition. Natalie lived up to her parents' expectations and got the role as she wished.
In the movie "Dream Street", Natalie won the recognition of the audience because of her natural performance and beautiful appearance, and became a well-known child star. Since then, Natalie has been the main source of income for the family.
She travels to and from home and the set every day, can't play freely like other children, and goes to school. Before the age of 12, Natalie had acted in 18 movies, and she experienced the pressure of life early on at a young age.
Natalie's mother was very tight on her, and once prevented her from falling in love with her first love boyfriend because the other party was the farmer's son. This incident left Natalie devastated and almost suicidal.
Later, Natalie was molested and raped by a big-name male star in Hollywood, and her mother not only did not call the police, but told her not to publicize the matter.
In order to firmly control the cash cow, Natalie's mother refused to let her die. Natalie's films had to go through her mother's review, which made Natalie take some bad films and miss some opportunities.
Due to her mother's strength, Natalie once needed to seek help from a psychiatrist.
The opposite of the unfortunate original family is Natalie's star path. From "Rebel for No Reason", Natalie gradually found the feeling of acting, and let the audience gradually forget her identity as a child star.
She went on to appear in several films, with "West End Story" released in 1961 becoming the Oscar for best picture that year, earning her a major reputation; for "Rebel without Cause", "Where is the End of the World Without Herbs" and "Stranger's Love", Natalie was nominated for three Oscars.
In the 1960s, Natalie was the girl everyone in America wanted to marry back home. However, compared with her brilliant career, Natalie's marriage is not smooth.
Before getting married, Natalie had several relationships, including celebrities like Elvis Presley. Of course, the one who had the greatest influence on her life was Robert Wagner.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > married three times but only married two men</h1>
Natalie was married three times in her life, with her first husband and third husband being the same person, Hollywood actor Robert Wagner.
When Natalie was 11 years old, she brushed shoulders with Robert Wagner on set when she said, "I'm going to marry this man when I grow up." At the age of 19, Natalie married Robert, who was 8 years older than herself.
After marriage, the two are very affectionate, but Robert's career is far inferior to his wife, and he is very dissatisfied with Natalie's "intimacy" with the male star on the set with the plot. After 6 years of marriage, Robert decided to go to Europe to develop, but Natalie did not follow, and the two separated.
After that, the lovers remarried separately and each had a daughter. Fate went around, and when the two met again, they were both alone, and found that they were still worried about each other deep inside.
After 15 years, the two chose to live together again.
After getting married again, Natalie bore a daughter for Robert and lived a happy marriage, at least in the eyes of outsiders: both like children, Natalie raised many small animals for her daughters at home, and the couple accompanied the children to the sea when they had time.
But what about the inner? Like many such remarried families, Natalie and Robert's problems in their previous marriages have not been completely resolved.
For the sake of the family, Natalie faded out of the film world, but chose to make a comeback three years later, and was once again recognized by the audience for her performance in the movie "Two Pairs of Mandarin Ducks and a Bed".
However, Robert still retains the initial jealous and dissatisfied attitude towards Natalie's associations with other members of the opposite sex, and often suspects that his wife is having affairs with other men.
Bad luck crept in at this point. On Thanksgiving day in 1981, the couple invited Natalie's film partner, Christopher Walken, on their own "Brilliant" yacht.
The three drank at least two bottles of wine and two bottles of champagne in the restaurant while the yacht broke anchor, and Natalie was so drunk that she had difficulty even walking.
Late at night, Robert found his wife missing, and by the time the crowd found her, she was drowning in the sea, not far from the yacht's own lifeboat.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > suspicious late-night drowning cases</h1>
If it had been a clear drop in the water, Natalie's death might have calmed down after a while, but it was clearly not that simple.
First, the autopsy revealed multiple bruises on Natalie's body, and the location of these scars can be understood according to the logic of bumping into the yacht when she fell into the water, but the coroner did not rule out that the scars existed before Natalie fell into the water.
Second, at the trial, the captain testified that Robert was not present when Natalie fell into the water, which coincided with Robert's self-description that "he was talking politics with Christopher in the cabin at the time."
However, after many years, the captain suddenly changed his confession, saying that Natalie's death Robert was responsible, because he had witnessed the couple arguing on the deck.
The captain also said that after hearing Robert question Christopher if he wants to my wife, Christopher did not persuade christopher when the couple quarreled.
The police investigation revealed that Robert suspected that his wife was having an affair with Christopher, which showed that it was not a happy voyage.
Again, Robert said goodnight to his wife late at night, found that the man was missing, and began to look around and inform the captain that it was 11:30.
Curiously, he didn't call the police immediately, and it wasn't until 1:30 a.m. the next day that Robert informed the Coast Guard of the matter, on the grounds that his wife would sometimes go to the stars in a lifeboat.
But a couple witness not far from the yacht said they had vaguely heard "Help!" at 11:05 a.m. Who's coming to my rescue! Such a cry, and there was a male voice responding. Unfortunately, the witness thought it was just a joke and did not take it seriously.
Finally, the police found that the lifeboat was in neutral gear, the oars were locked, and there was no ignition at all, but the lifeboat was found to be located a full mile away from the yacht.
In the face of these inexplicable situations, the forensic doctor's statement that "Natalie plans to drive her own lifeboat back to shore to rest, slipping into the water and drowning" is a bit untenable.
Natalie's sister also refuted this claim, saying that Natalie could not swim at all, could not drive a lifeboat alone, and was wearing pajamas.
Another doubt about Robert is that he himself was filming a season drama at the time, and it happened that there was a scandal with the heroine of the play, Stephanie, and the outbreak of conflict between the husband and wife did not know whether it was related to it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > supernatural element associated with the death of the actress</h1>
Because natalie's death was so suspicious, 30 years after her drowning, the U.S. police, at the strong request of Natalie's sister and the yacht captain, reopened the investigation into her death, but due to the lack of new evidence, it was still not resolved.
However, looking back at Natalie's life, there are many things that seem to foreshadow her tragic fate.
For example, the film that made Natalie famous, "Rebellion without a Cause", in which the male protagonist James Dean died in a car chase before the release of the 1955 film; the supporting actor Sal Mineo was stabbed to death in 1976; and the heroine Natalie Wood died of drowning in 1981.
The three actors died at the age of 24, 37 and 43, respectively, and the film casts an ominous shadow over it.
Before the Natalie Wood family moved from Russia to the United States, they had been to China. Natalie and her mother meet a fortune teller who says to Natalie's mother, "Your second daughter will be a great beauty that everyone knows, but she will stay away from the dark water." This rumor is not true or false, but Natalie's strong mother obviously did not take it seriously.
She also took over a play for Natalie, in which Natalie was about to stumble into the rapids under the broken bridge. Before filming began, Natalie's mother told her daughter that she would only be cut off when she crossed the bridge.
As a result, Natalie just walked to the middle of the bridge and fell into the rushing river, and the film camera realistically shows how the little girl fought against the storm and climbed up from the river, all of which were Natalie's real reactions when she faced the accident.
After filming this film, Natalie has a shadow on the water, which causes her to be very afraid of water all her life, but her life ends in the water, which can be said to be very paradoxical.
After middle age, Natalie often confided some confusing sentences with friends, such as "I am just a sign" and "These are smoke clouds, so am I", which seems to indicate her unpredictable fate.
It's been another decade since the case reopened, but Natalie's death remains a mystery. The young death of this talented actress with a stunning appearance is a thrilling one.
Fortunately, the excellent films she has performed can also let us relive her colorful acting life, and I hope that she can be away from darkness and cold in heaven, and bathe in warm sunshine forever.