The life and death of Natalie Wood: Part one

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🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Hello friends! Today, we’re heading back to the 1950s and ‘60s. Natalie Wood was an icon. Beautiful, talented, electric in front of a camera. And yet, for decades, public commentary has pertained mostly to her tragic - and confusing - death. How did a woman terrified of dark water die at sea? Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Big thanks to the team over at FRANKiE4 Footwear for making this episode possible. Don’t forget to use the code ‘SHAMELESSCOMFORT’ at checkout for 20% off your order. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours. An earlier version of this episode incorrectly stated that Natalie appeared in the film A Streetcar Named Desire. This has been corrected.

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0:59.2	Natalie Wood was an icon, beautiful, talented electric in front of the camera.
1:04.3	And yet, for 40 years, public commentary has pertained mostly to her tragic and confusing death.
1:10.0	How did a woman terrified of Dark Water die at the sea?
1:13.6	This is scandal from Shameless Podcast,
1:15.8	the stories of the biggest celebrity controversies revisited.
1:19.0	We are back with another two-part up Michelle Andrews and we're here with Natalie Wood today.
1:27.0	Natalie Wood when I told my mom all those months ago about the concept for scandal because we have been working on this for so long.
1:34.7	She looked at me and said, you have to do Natalie Wood.
1:38.0	And I stared at her blankly and said, who is that?
1:41.8	And she felt very, very disappointed in me as her daughter?
1:44.0	Yeah I think it's a story that people a little bit older than us are very well across
1:49.1	but definitely a story that people our age may have missed a little bit. I mean for those who have never heard of
1:55.1	Natalie Wood, she was an iconic Hollywood actress. She was a complete icon and she was the
2:00.4	second highest earning actress in Hollywood at the time next to Elizabeth
2:04.3	Taylor and I think most people listening to this would know who Elizabeth Taylor is so to put
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