West Side Story and Wilma Loomis, the young girl driven mad by love, in Splendor in the Grass.But by November 1981, she was at that difficult place for any actress of the period, as her younger sister Lana puts it, ‘caught in the cruel transition from “major star” to “who?”’.
She was working on a science-fiction thriller, Brainstorm, and readying to make her stage debut in Anastasia.In the last week of November, Wood, along with her husband Robert Wagner and her Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken, set off on a Thanksgiving-weekend sail off the California coast, on the couple’s 55ft yacht, Splendour.Early on the morning of 29 November, her body was found floating in a Catalina Island cove.In the 40 years since, Wood’s death has been a.
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