Almost the End of Natalie


The excellent biography of Natalie details how she almost really did drown during the filming of the raging waters scene. She fell into the waters and was being swept away. Only the prompt and brave action of a crew member who leapt into the waters saved her. Thus the irony of her drowning some decades later.

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sad story



When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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They must've edited it, or changed it. What I saw, there was no scene showing her on a collapsing bridge, falling into the water.

I just read Natasha, it was a sad situation for her as a kid with a crazy, mean stage mother.

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I just watched the film as well and saw no scene of a bridge collapsing, although I do know it was shot and Natalie was hurt. Robert Osbourne of TCM even mentioned this sequence at the end of the movie, but it must have been cut from the print which TCM used.

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There's was a bridge collapse (I think it was a bridge) but nobody was on it.

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Same here. I'd heard about the scene before, so I was looking out for it while I watched, but I didn't see anything other than Natalie running around in the rain. I was a bit confused when Robert Osborne mentioned it after the film, because he referenced it as though we had just seen it. Such a sad omen.

"Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
"Why do you find it so easy?"
"It's never BEEN easy!"

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Yes, a sad omen indeed.
I just watched this movie which has that scene of her crossing the bridge and falling into the water but still hanging on to part of the bridge and eventually climbing up (but who knows how much of that was cut)and I wonder why that particular scene was cut for some viewers here....?

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Natalie Wood had a fear of water. Perhaps her experiences in working on this movie were a contributing factor.

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Was this the cause of Natalie's intense fear of water? I never did hear how that started.

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