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More than love, an intimate portrait of my mother, Natalie Wood, Natasha Gregson Wagner

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More than love

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Natasha Gregson Wagner

an intimate portrait of my mother, Natalie Wood

"MORE THAN LOVE is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming-of-age by a daughter of Hollywood royalty. Natasha Gregson Wagner's mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a legendary movie star, married to Natasha's stepfather, the actor Robert Wagner. But Natalie's sudden death by drowning off Catalina Island at the age of forty-three devastated her family, made her stepfather a person of interest, and turned a vibrant wife, mother, and actress into a tragic figure. A tale of a daughter coming to terms with her grief, as well as a portrait of a famous mother and a vanished Hollywood."--Back coverWagner's mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a legendary movie star. She and Natasha's stepfather, actor Robert Wagner, were a Hollywood it-couple. But Natalie's sudden death by drowning off Catalina Island at the age of forty-three devastated her family, made her stepfather a person of interest, and turned a vibrant wife, mother, and actress into a tragic figure. Here Wagner shares her memories of her warm, loving, and slight chaotic childhood, her halting attempts to move forward as a young woman, and addresses the questions surrounding that night to clear her stepfather's name. -- adapted from jacket