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Sep 3, 2013 · With those words, 51-year-old actor Robert Wagner and Dennis Davern, the captain of Splendour, sounded the alarm around 1:30 A.M., on November 29, 1981, that Wagner’s wife, Natalie Wood, had...
- He Parents Were Ordinary
- His screen Test Was A Disaster
- His Future Wife Was Still A Child
- He Had A Titanic-Sized Crush
- The Studio Was His Matchmaker
- His Proposal Was Ominous
- His Wife Had A Dark Fear
- They Created A Media Circus
- They Got Eaten Alive by Cannibals
- His Life Wasn’T A Fairy Tale
It’s hard to imagine two more “un-showbusinessy” jobs than the ones Wagner’s parents had. Phone operator and traveling salesman sound more like sitcom jobs than the type of people who would bring a handsome Hollywood star into the world. But that’s what they were doing in 1930, in Detroit Michigan, when they had baby Robert. You know what they say—...
While still a teenager, Robert Wagner did a screen test for Academy Award-winning director and producer Fred Zinnemann. The screen test won absolutely no praise and got Wagner absolutely nowhere. But it did give Wagner the acting bug, and he went out on his own to find himself an agent. With that, he soon found success, and a contract with 20th Cen...
Wagner must’ve thought he had truly arrived as people noticed him strutting around the offices at 20th Century Fox. His alluring presence attracted the attention of a 10-year-old Natalie Wood, who was already a seasoned performer. When Wood saw the teenaged Wagner she turned to her mom and said: “I’m going to marry him one day.” Wrong, Natalie—you’...
Wagner landed a role inTitanic—no, not that one—in 1953. His co-star was Barbara Stanwyck, and behind the scenes, the pair shared a dark secret.Wagner claimed he had a four-year relationship with the much older megastar. That’s 23 years older, to be exact. The studios couldn’t use this May-December romance to sell Wagner as a leading man, so they p...
A few years later, the studio decided that Wagner and Wood would make a cute couple. Wood was eight years younger than Wagner but, surprisingly, she had more experience under her belt as an actor. Wood was a teenager herself at this point and Wagner was her perfect boy next door. But there was something brewing that no one expected came from this p...
Robert Wagner had a plan to propose to Natalie Wood by floating an engagement ring in a glass of champagne. While this wasn’t exactly an original idea it was, in hindsight, incredibly ominous. This was the beginning of a relationship that would be focused on water, boats, and anything nautical. But we’ll soon see why this couple should’ve stayed as...
Wagner had a love of sailing, which led him to plan a yacht trip in the Florida Keys for his honeymoon. However, there was something strange about this plan: It was a little one-sided. In fact, Wood reported on many occasions that she had an intense fear of dark or deep water. Cue the ominous music. Pixabay
When two stars as attractive as Wagner and Wood get together, the media goes wild. It got so bad that on a road trip across the country, radio stations broadcast sightings of the Hollywood couple driving down the highway. And what happened next? Crowds lined the streets of every small town they passed through. The public was gaga for Wagner and Woo...
Okay, it was actually the critics who ate them alive, but the movie was All the Fine Young Cannibals. As much as the Wagners were a media sensation, their first film together, about a young couple whose families force them to marry other people, wasn’t well received. Silver lining? The film inspired the name of the 1980s music group Fine Young Cann...
In spite of the failure of All the Fine Young Cannibals, the lives of Wagner and Wood must’ve looked pretty fairy-tale from the outside: a gorgeous couple always posing aboard yachts. However, the reality was much darker. Their marriage wasn’t great, and they were on the verge of separating. Wood’s star was rising a lot faster and more directly upw...
To Lure a Man: Directed by Barry Shear. With Robert Wagner, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Tina Sinatra, Joseph Cotten. Al and his date are held hostage in his apartment by enemy foreign agents who want to abduct SIA chief Jacks. Devon has to decipher the clue Al drops on the phone.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Barry Shear
- 1969-12-18
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Sep 19, 2022 · On what was essentially their first date, Gardner and Sinatra were arrested in the midst of their wild adventure. According to Server, they were brought into the police station but rescued when the studio paid for the cops to free them and keep the matter quiet.
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Aug 2, 2017 · Robert Wagner, left, and the pallbearers lead the casket of Barbara Sinatra into Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Palm Desert, Calif., Tuesday, August 1, 2017. (Photo: Zoe Meyers/The Desert...
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Tina Sinatra and Robert Wagner at Social Function (Original Caption) Beverly Hills, California: Tina Sinatra, youngest daughter of singer Frank Sinatra, is shown with her date, actor Robert Wagner at the Recent third annual fund-raising affair for the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.
It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970. It stars Robert Wagner in his television debut as sophisticated thief Alexander Mundy, who works for the U.S. government in return for his release from prison.
