Elvis' abortive romance with Natalie Wood.

[presley31]

Lana Wood, sister of screen legend, Natalie Wood, wrote in her book Natalie A Memoir by Her Sister, of the brief relationship in 1956 between Elvis and Natalie:

Then came Natalie's abortive romance with Elvis Presley. They met, and Elvis flew Natalie to his family in Memphis.

They were to be gone almost a week, but just two days into the great adventure, Natalie called.

"Gladys has wrecked everything," Natalie said, referring to Elvis' domineering, jealous mother. "I don't have a chance. Get me out of this, and fast," Natalie said.

It was agreed that Mother would call Natalie back and ask her to come home because of some family emergency. Natalie's romance with the king of rock fizzled out.

"God, it was awful," she told me later. "He can sing, but he can't do much else."

(Source: Natalie A Memoir by Her Sister, Lana Wood, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984)


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[marijaep]

Lana Wood, sister of screen legend, Natalie Wood, wrote in her book Natalie A Memoir by Her Sister, of the brief relationship in 1956 between Elvis and Natalie:

Then came Natalie's abortive romance with Elvis Presley. They met, and Elvis flew Natalie to his family in Memphis.

They were to be gone almost a week, but just two days into the great adventure, Natalie called.

"Gladys has wrecked everything," Natalie said, referring to Elvis' domineering, jealous mother. "I don't have a chance. Get me out of this, and fast," Natalie said.

It was agreed that Mother would call Natalie back and ask her to come home because of some family emergency. Natalie's romance with the king of rock fizzled out.

"God, it was awful," she told me later. "He can sing, but he can't do much else."

(Source: Natalie A Memoir by Her Sister, Lana Wood, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984)


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lol, I'd never say that. She must have been very pissed off to say that.
Thanks Jen :D

[john carpenter]

I hope she was refering to how Gladys kept a tight rein on Elvis. Unless she was talking about other things. I guess Natalie was too wild for Elvis.

[Diane]

Natalie had a lot of emotional problems and maybe was not so respectful towards Gladys which you know wouldn't do for either Gladys or Elvis. I think it's a good thing it fizzled out before any real relationship had a chance to start.

Diane

[marijaep]

Natalie had a lot of emotional problems and maybe was not so respectful towards Gladys which you know wouldn't do for either Gladys or Elvis. I think it's a good thing it fizzled out before any real relationship had a chance to start.

Diane

Never knew she had emotional problems Diane.
You are right, it's good that it ended before it was too late (y)

[utmom2008]

Natalie had a lot of emotional problems and maybe was not so respectful towards Gladys which you know wouldn't do for either Gladys or Elvis. I think it's a good thing it fizzled out before any real relationship had a chance to start.

Diane
You are so right Diane. Remember the movie "Splendor In the Grass"? In real life I think that Natalie was about that messed up. While filming that movie she fell for Warren Beatty and divorced Robert Wagner in hopes of getting WB. In the book "Down At the End of Lonely Street" there are a few amusing stories on she and Elvis. Elvis and his buds all thought she was a little strange. I believe the name they came up with for her was "Nutty Nat".....

[Alessia]

"Gladys has wrecked everything," Natalie said, referring to Elvis' domineering, jealous mother. "I don't have a chance. Get me out of this, and fast," Natalie said.

Actually, although she was overprotective, Gladys was fine with all of Elvis' girlfriends, with the exception of Natalie Wood.

Natalie and Elvis wouldn't have lasted long under any circumstances. They really had absolutely nothing in common.

[presley31]

what was wrong with her diane??

[utmom2008]

She was very emotionally unstable, and had alot of insecurities, especially when it came to romance.;)

[presley31]

She was very emotionally unstable, and had alot of insecurities, especially when it came to romance.;)

Thank you, didn't know alot about nat

[Diane]

She was very pretty especially later on when she had her long hair. I was told I looked like her a lot when I was a teenager but I could never see it. In any case she ended up as a suicide by drowning did she not or was that ever proven?

Diane

[Alessia]

She was very pretty especially later on when she had her long hair. I was told I looked like her a lot when I was a teenager but I could never see it. In any case she ended up as a suicide by drowning did she not or was that ever proven?

No, I think the theory is that she drowned accidentally, trying to leave the yacht alone at night.

She was afraid of drowning, if I remember right. I don't think she'd have chosen that way to kill herself.

[presley31]

Death
In September and October 1981, Wood and Wagner stayed in Raleigh, North Carolina while Wood did location work for the science-fiction film Brainstorm.[10] Wood then spent most of November in California shooting interior scenes with Christopher Walken and other cast members on the MGM lot in Culver City.[10]

After Thanksgiving Walken, Wood and Wagner went on to Catalina Island and on Saturday night their yacht the Splendor was anchored in Isthmus Cove. Also on board was the boat's skipper, Dennis Davern, who had worked for the couple for many years. Wood apparently tried to either leave the yacht or secure a dinghy from banging against the hull when she accidentally slipped and fell overboard. A woman on a nearby yacht said she heard calls for help at around midnight. The cries lasted for about 15 minutes and were answered by someone else who said, "Take it easy. We'll be over to get you."[1] "It was laid back," the witness recalled. "There was no urgency or immediacy in their shouts."[1] An investigation by Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi resulted in an official verdict of accidental drowning. Noguchi concluded Wood had drunk "seven or eight" glasses of wine and was intoxicated when she died. There were marks and bruises on her body which could have been received as a result of her fall.[1] Noguchi later wrote had Wood not been intoxicated she likely would have realized her heavy down-filled coat and wool sweater were pulling her underwater and would have removed them.[11] Noguchi also wrote that he found Wood's fingernails embedded in the rubber boat's side.

At the time of her death at the age of 43, Wood was scheduled to make her stage debut in an Ahmanson Theatre production of Anastasia with Dame Wendy Hiller. Rehearsals were planned to begin in December. Brainstorm was released in theaters two years later (missing at least one unfilmed scene meant for Wood) and was neither a critical nor a commercial success. Natalie Wood is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Wood

[Diane]

I think you're right and also that she had been drinking heavily if I remember correctly.

Diane

[presley31]

I think you're right and also that she had been drinking heavily if I remember correctly.

Diane

yep according to this she was drinking lots
Noguchi concluded Wood had drunk "seven or eight" glasses of wine and was intoxicated when she died. There were marks and bruises on her body which could have been received as a result of her fall.[

[Diane]

Sad that life turned out that way for her as she had a lot of potential as an actress.

If I also remember right, for a while there the media (of course) were speculating whether Wagner had killed her.

Diane

[MissyM]

So what? She thought that with Gladys right there she was going to have a hot night with Elvis?? Yeh right!

[presley31]

Sad that life turned out that way for her as she had a lot of potential as an actress.

If I also remember right, for a while there the media (of course) were speculating whether Wagner had killed her.

Diane

I thought she was ok, but l didn't know about her being messed up.

[Diane]

I didn't know either Jen. It all came out when she drowned.

Diane

[utmom2008]

She was very pretty especially later on when she had her long hair. I was told I looked like her a lot when I was a teenager but I could never see it. In any case she ended up as a suicide by drowning did she not or was that ever proven?

Diane
About the only thing that was known for sure was that she and both men had been drinking heavy, and apparently some sort of an argument broke out. There were 3 there that night that knew what happened, and sadly one is not here to tell us about it. There was a time when I read everything I could about her and that night...I was always a big fan of hers. Diane...if you look like her then you are a beautiful woman. I always thought that she was absolutely stunning. :D

[utmom2008]

She was afraid of drowning, if I remember right.

Yes...she was terrified of big open bodies of water, and had a fear that she would drown.:blush:

[utmom2008]

If I also remember right, for a while there the media (of course) were speculating whether Wagner had killed her.

There was alot of speculation as to what went on that night. One story goes that she and C. Walken were being very flirtatious and that Bob Wagner got mad and one word led to another. There has been speculation that she was actually trying to leave the Splendor in one of the dingy boats. They started the evening by having dinner at a restaurant on Catalina Island, and the others there told of them being very loud and lots of drinking going on. That's when she and Walken started being flirtatious. That seems a very plausible story because by all accounts she was one of those women that always wanted the men to be swooning over her...she was extremely insecure when it came to men.:blink::blink:

[epmoodyblue]

she was very beautiful...but not very intelligent to say something like that about elvis...good for Gladys im happy she broke things up.:lmfao:.and had Gladys lived longer elvis would have been around longer also(y):king:

[BabiGurl88]

sad way to die..she was a really beautiful ...:( How long did they date each other...?

[LianaKaralivanou]

Lana Wood, sister of screen legend, Natalie Wood, wrote in her book Natalie A Memoir by Her Sister, of the brief relationship in 1956 between Elvis and Natalie:

Then came Natalie's abortive romance with Elvis Presley. They met, and Elvis flew Natalie to his family in Memphis.

They were to be gone almost a week, but just two days into the great adventure, Natalie called.

"Gladys has wrecked everything," Natalie said, referring to Elvis' domineering, jealous mother. "I don't have a chance. Get me out of this, and fast," Natalie said.

It was agreed that Mother would call Natalie back and ask her to come home because of some family emergency. Natalie's romance with the king of rock fizzled out.

"God, it was awful," she told me later. "He can sing, but he can't do much else."
(Source: Natalie A Memoir by Her Sister, Lana Wood, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984)


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It wasn't a very nice thing to say about Elvis. (n)

[BabiGurl88]

it isnt really nice to say about elvis at all...Elvis probbly didnt want to sleep wit her or something happen wit them too...Anita and June neva had a problem wit Glady's soo why is she...maybe Glady knew tat Natalie wasnt good for elvis soo she probbly try to break them up? (shrugs)...i dont think Glady want her son for herself...

[KPM]

Natalie Wood had been acting since the mid 1940's. She had already led a pretty varied life in Hollywood-she was sophisticated, spoke several languages, and had seem much of what Hollywood had to offer in her young life. A "wild time" meant something very different to each of them. Elvis was new to fame, Hollywood, and all that Hollywood entails. They were just two very different people, with very different takes on life at the time. She had dated James Dean, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Hunter-to name a few. James Dean was her idea of what an actor should be-I think she thought Elvis had some of the qualities which attracted her to Dean-but he was not James Dean (and all that entails) It went as far as it could given that they were so far apart in so many ways.

[jak]

I got to meet Lana Wood this past July.I spent maybe 30 mins talking to her.I asked her about Natalie and Elvis.She told me basically the same thing she wrote in her book.She really wasnt putting Elvis down I dont think.KPM pretty much nailed it.Elvis was probably still somewhat backward at that time.Natalie was already a veteran of a fast paced hollywood lifestyle which Elvis had not yet adopted.Lana was extremely friendly and seemed real nice when I talked to her.I got a nice photo of us together.I kept thinking about Plenty Otoole when I had my arm around her;)
Jak

[KPM]

I got to meet Lana Wood this past July.I spent maybe 30 mins talking to her.I asked her about Natalie and Elvis.She told me basically the same thing she wrote in her book.She really wasnt putting Elvis down I dont think.KPM pretty much nailed it.Elvis was probably still somewhat backward at that time.Natalie was already a veteran of a fast paced hollywood lifestyle which Elvis had not yet adopted.Lana was extremely friendly and seemed real nice when I talked to her.I got a nice photo of us together.I kept thinking about Plenty Otoole when I had my arm around her;) Jak
Yes she was quite healthy looking in that role.;)

[jak]

Yes she was quite healthy looking in that role.;)

I believe she mentioned in her book that Mr Connery approved also.

[KPM]

I believe she mentioned in her book that Mr Connery approved also.
His opinion is good enough for me.(y)

[jak]

I thought she still looked pretty good when I met her,and still quite healthy I might add.I asked her to sign a photo of herself from "The Searchers" for me.She really was a nice person to meet.

[KPM]

I thought she still looked pretty good when I met her,and still quite healthy I might add.I asked her to sign a photo of herself from "The Searchers" for me.She really was a nice person to meet.
Thats always a great thing to read that celebrities are actually nice people- when you meet them up close.