In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share
the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life
He grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed
his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome playing one morning
featuring none other than Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph
Scott, and Cary Grant. Seeing these giants of the silver screen
awed him and fueled his dreams of becoming a movie star. Battling a
revolving door of boarding schools and a father who wanted him to
forget Hollywood and join the family business, sixteen-year-old
Wagner started like any naive kid would--walking along Sunset
Boulevard, hoping that a producer or director would notice him.
Under the mentorship of stars like Spencer Tracy, he would
become a salaried actor in Hollywood's studio system among other
hot actors of the moment such as his friends Rock Hudson and Tony
Curtis. Working with studio mogul Darryl Zanuck, Wagner began to
appear in a number of films alongside the most beautiful
starlets--but his first love was Barbara Stanwyck, an actress twice
his age. As his career blossomed, and after he separated from
Stanwyck, he met the woman who would change his life forever,
Natalie Wood. They fell instantly and deeply in love and stayed
together until the stress of their careers--hers marching upward,
his inexplicably deflating--drove them to divorce.
Trying to forget the pain, he made more movies and spent his
time in Europe with the likes of Steve McQueen, Sophia Loren, Peter
Sellers, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Liz Taylor, and Joan
Collins. He would meet and marry the beautiful former model and
actress Marion Marshall. Together they had a daughter andmade their
way back to America, where he found himself at the beginning of a
new era in Hollywood--the blossoming of television. Lew Wasserman
and later Aaron Spelling would work with Wagner as he produced and
starred in some of the most successful programs in history.
Despite his newfound success, his marriage to Marion fell apart.
He looked no further than Natalie Wood, for whom he still pined. To
the world's surprise, they fell in love all over again, this time
more deeply and with maturity. As she settled into a domestic life,
raising their own daughter, Courtney, as well as their children
from previous marriages, Wagner became the sole provider, reaping
the riches of television success. Their life together was cut
tragically short, though, when Wood died after falling from their
yacht.
For the first time, Wagner writes about that tremendously
painful time. After a serious bout with depression, he finally
resurfaced and eventually married Jill St. John, who helped keep
his family and his fractured heart together.
With color photographs and never-before-told stories, this is a
quintessentially American story of one of the great sons of
Hollywood.
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