Robert Wagner mulled killing Warren Beatty due to Natalie Wood

Reuters ^ | 9/25/08 | Christian Wiessner

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Robert Wagner says he was so distraught over the break-up of his first marriage to actress Natalie Wood that he pondered suicide and would sit with a gun outside the home of her lover, Warren Beatty, intent on killing him.

"Pieces of My Heart," Wagner's autobiography released this week, reveals details of his career and life, including the split with Wood, their decision to remarry a decade later and her drowning death in 1981.

"I was pretty young, and I don't think I could have ever gone through with that act, but I was pretty frustrated and upset," Wagner, 78, told Reuters in an interview.

Beatty, who met Wood on the set of "Splendor in the Grass," in 1961 "was pretty smooth, very attractive. He was the man," Wagner said.

Wagner's family moved to Los Angeles in the late 1930s and he ran in Hollywood circles as a child. Fred Astaire would pick him up at school because Wagner was friendly with the legendary dancer's stepson. He caddied for Clark Gable and dated the daughter of actress Gloria Swanson.

Over time, Wagner was put under contract at 20th Century Fox. When Barbara Stanwyck, then 45, and Wagner, 22, met on the set of "Titanic," they began a discreet, four-year relationship. Wagner said she was his first love.

"The greatest thing that she gave me was a sense of self esteem. That she thought the way she did about me and took the time with me meant everything in the world," Wagner said.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Ah, the Hollywood of yesteryear..... I wonder if 'ol Bobby Wagner mulls killing any of these Hollywood starlet whores we have today.....

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Celebrity ping

[Resolute Conservative]

He’s not anti-dentite!

[MeanWestTexan]

I vaguely respect this.

[Skooz]

Ditto.

[Joe 6-pack]

Wagner lost his nerve and we all payed with Ishtar.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Okay, what part? The thing about killing Hollywood starlet whores?

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL!

[BurbankKarl]

What kind of wood doesn’t float?

(sorry, grade school joke)

[1Old Pro]

So he killed Natalie instead? Wa Wagner the first OJ? Didn’t Natale “fall” off his boat and drown?

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Some conspiracy theorists blame Natalie’s death on Christopher Walken. He was on the boat that night, too. Rumor has it that Nat was bedding Chris, and that Bobby found out. Her death remains an ‘accident’, but it sounds to me like it’s more of a ‘mystery’.

[gathersnomoss]

Isn’t that Long Dong Beatty?

[BurbankKarl]

[MeanWestTexan]

No, the desire to off Beatty for letting Wood die.

Not saying he would have been correct, but I think Beatty was at least complicit, if not a direct participant, in Natilie Wood’s death.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

I vividly remember the day Natalie Wood died -- Nov. 24, 1981. For the record, I haven't even Googled or Wikipedia'd it. I remember that day because my mother was crying hysterically after hearing that Natalie drowned, and I just happen to be at home from school for that entire week with a very violent dengue fever (we lived in Puerto Rico). I was in 9th grade.

So, aside from recuperating from dengue, I had to listen to my mother crying over Natalie's death every night.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Got it.

[Deb]

At some time or other we all mull killing Warren Beatty.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Not saying he would have been correct, but I think Beatty was at least complicit, if not a direct participant, in Natilie Wood’s death.

How so? Because he 'messed up' her life so badly that she had gone back to the bottle? (I believe she was a heavy drinker). Beatty was nowhere near the boat or Catalina Island that night, but Christopher Walken was.

[JZelle]

She was just giving him more cowbell.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

OH STOP, JZELLE!!!!

NOW THAT WAS FUNNY!!! ;-)

[MeanWestTexan]

Ah, I may have my celebs mixed up. Not exactly Mr. Hollywood.

So maybe I don’t respect him.

[gathersnomoss]

Nice skull...

[HIDEK6]

Barbara Stanwyck, then 45, and Wagner, 22, met on the set of "Titanic," ...

The name of that movie was, "A Night to Remember."

"Titanic" was the Leonardo diCaprio effort.

[Clemenza]

Put a photo a a young Merle Haggard next to a young Warren Beatty, and they look like brothers. Today, Merle looks like a walking corpse, while Warren is the poster child for botox.

As a side note, Splendor in the Grass was filmed in a pre-Verezzano Staten Island, although it took place in Kansas.

[Deb]

Hey, "If I never saw you again it would only be one less day a week than I see you now." Is frickin' brilliant!!!

And, "It takes real courage to be as old as you and have nothing." Equally brilliant!!

I refuse to have a word spoken against that movie!

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The way I heard the gossip was that it was Walken and Wagner going at it after Wood had gotten drunk and gone to bed. She woke up, walked in on them, and then tried to get off the boat. Still drunk, she fell, hit her head and drowned.

In a possibly related vein, Barbara Stanwyck was widely reputed to be a lesbian. Her marriage to Robert Taylor was a studio put-up job which he eventually got tired of and left her. She was never known to date again after that.

Not saying any of this is true, but that is the gossip.

[Centurion2000]

At some time or other we all mull killing Warren Beatty.

Especially after this piece o crap

ISHTAR: World's second worst movie.

(Exorcist II: world's worst)

[timydnuc]

This guy is the luckiest SOB on the face of the earth. Married to Natalie Wood AND THEN Jill St. John. Numbers 1 and 2 on Timy’s lust list.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Stop posting, we have a winner!

[y6162]

Beatty’s Bulworth was an act of audience abuse.

His hip hop rendition of socialism while made up like a minstrel was jaw dropping.

[dfwgator]

Did he mull attacking him with ill-tempered sea bass?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The name of that movie was, "A Night to Remember."

"Titanic" was the Leonardo diCaprio effort.

Nope. "A Night to Remember" was a 1958 British production. "Titanic" was a 1953 US movie. There's also a German "Titanic" made by the Nazis. A bore (TMC runs it occasionally) but some of its special effects shots were used by ANTR.

[Skooz]

Have you seen “The Trial of Billy Jack?”

Ishtar is Citizen Cane and Exorcist II is Casablanca in comparison.

It’s that bad.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Put a photo a a young Merle Haggard next to a young Warren Beatty, and they look like brothers. Today, Merle looks like a walking corpse, while Warren is the poster child for botox.

A young Merle Haggard (left) and a young Warren Beatty (right)

[HIDEK6]

I stand corrected.

[Deb]

What total garbage. You should really be ashamed. That's above the pay grade of a scumbag.

As Tony Curtis once said, "Stand on the corner of Hollywood and Vine long enough and someone will walk up and say 'Bubba Ho-Tep is a fag'."

[y6162]

Natalie Wood

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

She was a beautiful woman!

[dfwgator]

Miss Zakharenko was definately a hottie.

[Deb]

Cut it out! Geez, you got to see Isabelle Adjani’s boobs. What do you want?

[y6162]

Not for nothing, Wood did not sing in West Side Story nor was she a PR.

Did you mother think she was Puerto Rican?

[Ghengis]

Not saying he would have been correct, but I think Beatty was at least complicit, if not a direct participant, in Natilie Wood’s death.

Now this is a theory that I gotta hear! Are you confusing Walken with Beatty?

[y6162]

[MeanWestTexan]

Yeah, read up thread. I apparently had my hollyweirdos mixed up.

[Clemenza]

That my friends, is a true Georgian beauty.

[Clemenza]

Well, she did play Maria (although I though Maria’s sister was hotter, and that Tony was gay).

[cmsgop]

I'll Shoot Your A$$.....

[Ghengis]

Sorry. Missed that post.

[TonyInOhio]

Wagner lost his nerve and we all payed with Ishtar.

That's a "milk-through-the-nostrils" comment. :)

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Yes, my mom knew that she wasn’t Puerto Rican. She was just one of my mom’s favorite actresses.