Natalie Wood on the cover of People magazine

Natalie Wood on the cover of People magazine, 2016. They picked a great photo of her for the cover, but I think they should have picked a color photo of her.

Natalie and her daughter Natasha.

Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, 1970's. Their outfits are just so wonderfully 1970's!

Natalie Wood is on the cover of this week’s People magazine. While the cover promises to give us “the untold story,” there’s not much new inside. But there is a nice interview with Natasha Gregson Wagner which doesn’t tread the same ground as the recent New York Times profile of her. There are also some great photos from Gregson Wagner’s personal collection, including one of a radiant Natalie holding Natasha at 6 weeks old. There’s also a great photo of the whole Wood/Wagner clan, including Natasha’s half-sisters Courtney and Katie, from 1977. In that photo, Robert Wagner is wearing a denim jacket that’s just barely buttoned, and Natalie is wearing super high-waisted jeans that of course look really good on her, because no style of clothing looked bad on her. 

The cover also tells us that “Robert Wagner Breaks His Silence,” and features a nice little sidebar in which he discusses Natasha and Natalie. “Break His Silence” seems a little melodramatic as a headline, since it makes it sound like he hasn’t discussed Natalie Wood since 1981.

It’s great to see Natalie on a magazine cover again, if you’re a fan of hers, you should go pick up this week’s People.

Great Article About Natasha Gregson Wagner

Natalie Wood and her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner, 1973.

The perfume recently released by Natalie Wood's estate, "Natalie."

Last week The New York Times published a very interesting interview with Natalie Wood’s daughter, actress Natasha Gregson Wagner. Gregson Wagner has just released a perfume, “Natalie,” in memory of her mother. You can buy the perfume here. The perfume is based on Wood’s favorite perfume, “Jungle Gardenia.” Gregson Wagner doesn’t often give interviews about her mother, so the piece is a really interesting glimpse into her life, and how she dealt with losing her mother at age 11. The article also says that there will be a coffee-table book about Natalie Wood’s life coming out this fall. That’s great news, because there’s really no good photo book about Natalie Wood in print-the only one I’ve been able to find is Christopher Nickens’ 1986 book Natalie Wood: A Biography in Photographs, which is long out of print. Here’s the link to the article, which is essential reading for Natalie Wood fans.