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 ...

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 ...

Maria’s response was to move the entire family ... Given the more American-sounding name of Natalie Wood, Natasha, incessantly coached by her mother to do as she was told, soon became known ...