Inside Natalie Wood and Mart Crowley’s 20-Year Friendship

Crowley was almost with Wood the night she mysteriously died

Wood and Wagner remarried in 1972, with Wood telling People that Wagner had now “become a man instead of a boy.” A daughter, Courtney, was born in 1974.

It was Thanksgiving 1981 when Wagner, along with Wood and her then-Brainstorm Christopher Walken, would take the family cruiser Splendour out to California’s Catalina Island. Crowley was invited to attend but had turned the invitation down. Wood and Wagner reportedly argued on board, supposedly over the relationship between them and their costars, with Wood retiring to a cabin and Wagner unable to locate her hours later.

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