Natalie Wood is one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time.
However, the part wouldn’t come easily to Wood.
Wood apparently even got into a car accident before getting the role.
He called me a goddamn juvenile delinquent!
NOW do I get the part?!"
“I turned to my mother and said, ‘I’m going to marry him.'”
Their paths officially crossed in 1956 when 20th Century Fox set them up for a publicity date.
Many speculated that the marriage ended because Wood caught Wagner cheating on her with another man.
Even Wood’s sister Lana seemed to confirm these allegations, according toNews.com.au.
But that wasn’t the end for the high-profile pair.
The couple remarried in 1972, a decade after the divorce.
Wagner, meanwhile, married actress Marion Marshall, and the pair had a daughter named Katie.
He was also famously engaged to Tina Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s daughter.
The two got to talking about their marriage and Wood saw that Wagner had matured from boy to man.
We deliberately hid our weaknesses from each other.
Now we found that we could really talk to each other.
We were not afraid to be ourselves.
But we realized that we needed those years apart to reach that understanding."
Two years after their second wedding, Wood and Wagner had a daughter, Courtney.
The two remained married until Wood’s fatal drowning in 1981 at age 43.
