Natalie Wood

From her starring roles as a skeptical child inthe perennial classic Miracle on 34thStreet and a troubled adolescent in Rebelwithout a Cause to mature roles in Splendorin the Grass and West Side Story,actress Natalie Wood transfixed the world with her hypnotic brown eyes. Yetbehind the beautiful facade lurked a fragile, sparkling, generous, funny womantraumatized by her childhood and beset by personal demons. In this landmarkbiography, her close personal friend Gavin Lambert sets out to tell herextraordinary story with the help of intimate interviews from her friends andcolleagues including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and her husband RobertWagner. What emerges is a luminous, assiduously researched portrait that shedsnew light on the life and tragic death of the silver screen's most beguilingstar