Natalie Wood was born in 1938 in San Francisco, the oldest child of Russian immigrants. A fortune teller told her mother, Maria, that she would give birth to a famous actress, and Maria did her ...

Natalie Wood's sister, Lana Wood ... around the time Natalie was shooting “The Searchers.” Their mother, Maria Zakharenko, set up a meeting with Douglas and Natalie in hopes that “many ...

Natalie and Lana Wood may have been eight years apart, but the sisters were both pushed into show business by their mother Maria Zakharenko, a Russian immigrant. While Natalie "loved all the ...

around the time Natalie Wood was filming "The Searchers." The meeting had been arranged by their mother, Maria Zakharenko, who thought that "many doors might be thrown open for her, with just a ...

Born Natalie Zacharenko to Russian immigrant parents, Wood lived in the shadow of an overbearing mother, Maria Gurdin, who orchestrated the nascent star’s early life and passed her own dreams of ...