After twenty years, the story of Natalie Wood's extraordinary life and mysterious death is revealed in a riveting new biography We watched her mature on the movie screen before our eyes in Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, and on and on. She has been hailed, along with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, as one of the top three movie actresses in film history, a legend in her own lifetime and beyond. But the story of what she endured, of what her life was like when the doors of the soundstages slid closed, has long been obscured. Natasha is based on years of exhaustive research into Natalie's turbulent life and mysterious death. Suzanne Finstad conducted more than four hundred interviews with Natalie's family, close friends, legendary costars, lovers, film crews, attorneys, police officials, and Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the coroner who investigated her strange death by drowning. Finstad has reconstructed a life of emotional abuse and exploitation, of almost unprecedented fame, great loneliness, and loss. Finstad tells this tragic beauty's story with sensitivity and grace, revealing a complex and conflicting mix of fragility and strength in a woman who was swept away by forces she could not control. Natasha is the definitive biography of Natalie Wood.

Recounts Priscilla Presley's life as Elvis's 'child bride,' revealing the often dark side of their sensational marriage, including Elvis's kinky sexual proclivities and his constant demands on her appearance. By the author of Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Drawing on interviews with friends, family, and colleagues, as well as access to private letters, diaries, and photographs, the acclaimed author of Natasha presents an unprecedented glimpse behind the public persona of the complex, intensely private actor, chronicling Beatty's career, romances, political aspirations, personal relationships, and private life. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

An account of the murder of former beauty queen Barbara Piotrowski describes how her fitness junkie, Texas millionaire husband harassed his wife after she left him and then hired a gunman to kill her. Reprint. K.

Probes the life and murder of Henry Harrison Kyle, a self-made millionaire known for his daring business exploits and romantic conquests

Probes the life and murder of Henry Harrison Kyle, a self-made millionaire known for his daring business exploits and romantic conquests

Describes the five-year effort of a Houston court to determine the heirs to the estate of Howard Hughes and looks at the history of the Hughes family