Blind Item #9 - Old Hollywood Blind
In the annals of horrible stage moms, the foreign-born mother to this then almost A-list child and teen star who later made the transition to A+ list leading lady is among the worst. She acted as her pimp, accompanying her from casting couch to casting couch to sleep with men as old as the father of the actress. Two famous A+ list Oscar winning/nominees were among her sex partners.
Is Brooke Shields A list?
ReplyDeleteShe was, I like your guess.
Deleteher mother is not foreign-born
DeleteFYI- Old Hollywood blinds are from 20's to the 50's (maybe 60's) but definitely not 70's or 80's imho.
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DeleteNatalie Wood
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DeleteLiz Taylor's mother.
ReplyDeleteYup
DeleteJudy Garland
ReplyDeleteNathalie wood!
ReplyDeleteLiz taylor
ReplyDeleteNatalie wood.
ReplyDeleteNotoriously ruthless mother she wrote about in her memoir.
Actors include Warren Beatty for sure..maybe James Dean as well.....her breakout roles
Natalie always had such sad eyes. I'm surprised the sister if hers hasn't told this, if it is Natalie.
ReplyDeleteYes she was Russian....her mother born in ukraine
ReplyDeleteJudy's mother born in U.S. I think this one's Natalie Wood.
ReplyDeleteAgree, natalie for sure. Sad.
ReplyDeleteI think Natalie's sister would have told if this were the case. She told about Natalie's rape when she was a teen by a famous leading man.
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ReplyDeleteJudy's family were American & owned a theater in Minnesota. They say Judy was the abitious one, not her mom.
ReplyDeleteI read Lanas book which was her autobiography but mostly about Natalie and she really didn't like mom.
ReplyDeleteYup, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty and ....maybe Dean? That woman had a rough, rough life. :(
ReplyDeleteI'll co-sign the Natalie Wood guess, as well.
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely woman to have lived such a sporadically crummy life.
"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower.."
Ecua nailed it. I'm with "the only wood that don't float" guess.
ReplyDeleteAs I stated actor definitely Beatty...and Brando, not Dean.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused whether the 2 Oscar winning/nominees were when she was still a child or later as an adult
ReplyDeleteAdult..seems the roles in Splendor and Rebel were secured by sex with leading men...
ReplyDeleteBut def Brando not dean for rebel..dean was gay and Brando a renowned sex addict/freak
Natalie …
ReplyDeleteShe really did have the saddest eyes. I wonder if she was ever happy at all.
ReplyDeleteI believe it was Natalie Wood; her parents were Russian.
ReplyDeleteI also think the blind means who she was pimped out to in terms of casting couch old men, not who her chosen lovers were...so I nominate Rex Harrison as one of the men who abused her. He was born in 1908; Wood in 1938. As a child, she starred in THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR with him. He won at least one Oscar. His history fits with this.
Natalie Wood's mom?
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ReplyDeleteLiz Taylor was born in London. I think this is Natalie Wood.
ReplyDeleteNathalie wood also had an affair with Nicolas Ray the director of Rebel Without Cause
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/natalie-wood-death-rebel-without-266053
Rex Harrison certainly wasn't a nice guy, but I doubt Natalie was made to sleep with him to get a part in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, she was 9 yeas old at the time!
ReplyDeleteI nominate Frank Sinatra and John Wayne for the men she had to sleep with, she starred with them both in the 1950s.
Charles Laughton and Bing Crosby could fit as well, she would've been in her mid-teens.
ReplyDeleteNatalie Wood, baby. Also, Kirk Douglas raped her. Natalie's sister says that when he dies, she's going to out him as a rapist. Any day now...
ReplyDeleteCelebrity rapist Kirk Douglas is in my dead pool every year. Fingers crossed for 2014.
ReplyDeleteKirk Douglas knows what's waiting for him on the other side so he'll hang on here as long as possible.
ReplyDeleteNatalie Wood.
ReplyDeleteShe was so beautiful. I am so intrigued by her death. I wonder if we'll ever get the truth?
ReplyDeleteHanwi, Laughton was gay and loved poop sandwiches. FULL SERVICE for deets.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, I forgot he was gay. Well, that still leaves a few possibilities. One of the older A+ co-stars is also James Stewart, but I refuse to even think about that.
ReplyDeleteApparently her and Sinatra were dating at some point in the 50s, so my guess for the A+ sex partners are Wayne and Crosby.
Natalie Wood. I've mentioned here before that her mother allegedly "granted" Natalie's virginity to Sinatra in exchange for his contacts and help climbing the ladder. Can't be proven of course, but I would absolutely believe it of him.
ReplyDeleteI concur with the Natalie Wood guess. But, in the 1950s, only a few leading men were influential enough to choose their own co-stars.
ReplyDeleteI think it more likely that her "lovers" were producers and directors. Nicholas Ray ('Rebel Without A Cause') was one. She was 16. He allegedly went through the same routine with James Dean and Sal Mineo.
As a child, she was under contract at RKO, In her early teens she moved between various studios and ABC TV series. I think she signed with Warners in 1954 (aged 15).
Who has kirk Douglas raped?? Deets.
ReplyDeleteDrew Barrymore's mom was born in Germany, a bit of stretch but could possibly be considered "old hollywood" by now.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for Himmm to jump in and give us Natasha Gregson's phone number again. We can ask her.
ReplyDeleteSugarbread he raped Natalie Wood when she was 15. Here is the story from the Suzanne Finstad biography Natasha
ReplyDeleteSteve McQueen, Natalie Wood's co-star in Love With a Proper Stranger, was an Oscar nominee for The Sand Pebbles. He was also abused as a child, which presumably contributed to his violent and misogynistic behavior.
ReplyDeleteThe story of her mother's pimping provide's context for Kirk Douglas's particularly vile behavior and Wood's response (or lack of response).
What a life. RIP, Natalie.
Going with Natalie Wood.
ReplyDeleteYeah I don't get how Kirk Douglas is still alive. The dude's 97!
ReplyDeleteOnce again Enty: More Old Hollywood blinds please!
ReplyDeleteI don't think Sinatra abused her. They had an affair, but she was older. She was an un-official member of the Rat Pack and she and Frank remained friends until her death.
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ReplyDeleteSugarbread he raped Natalie Wood when she was 15. Here is the story from the Suzanne Finstad biography Natasha
Thank you. I just ordered the book on Amazon. It's really inexpensive used.
Sinatra was one of her pallbearers so I doubt she was forced to be with him at a young age.
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ReplyDelete'Wood's very Russian mother said from the outset that "I raised my daughter to be a movie star". This wildly narcissistic, overpowering, often unhinged woman would be an ongoing, toxic presence in her daughter's life.
Her ambitions for her daughter also meant that she turned a blind eye when the-then 45-year-old director, Nicholas Ray, seduced her then 16-year-old daughter. ...'
and yes re: more old Hollywood blinds
ReplyDeleteWow. Everyone knows everything here. It's Natalie Wood, for sure.
ReplyDelete--Kirk Douglas raped her
--Her mother brought her around to Frank Sinatra's place when she was about fifteen. Sinatra's valet/cook confirmed this
The best books about this type of stuff are Scotty Bowers book and George Jacobs' book about Sinatra.
Natalie Wood's life was so so sad.
ReplyDeleteKirk is in my Top 5 Dead Pool and I'm batting nearly a perfect game, so far, in 2014. This could be it, kiddos. I also want to win this year.
ReplyDeleteI wish Enty didn't chicken out of a Dead Pool.
ReplyDelete@Jennifer, that's the first thing *I* thought of, too, because I didn't even catch the "Old Hollywood" part.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Natalie Wood.
ReplyDeleteI heard that the other rapist was Jack Palance. So my guess is Kirk Douglas and Jack Palance.
ReplyDeleteNatalie grabbed control of her career in her late teens from that awful mother. Any "pimping" on the casting couch would've been while Natalie was still a young teen in the 50's. Nic Ray ("Rebel") for sure.
ReplyDeletePoor Nat stayed in therapy for the rest of her life.
Her wonderful mother also once pulled the wings off of a butterfly to make Natalie cry for the camera when she was a kid. She makes Dena Lohan look like Mary Poppins.