The Natalie Wood Collection

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Warner Bros. is releasing a box set and some individual titles on February 3rd featuring this screen legend in some of her best known work. The six disc box set will include such titles as Splendor in the Grass, Gypsy which are remastered releases, Inside Daisy Clover, Sex and the Single Girl, Bombers B-52 and Cash McCall, their first time on DVD.  You can also get Splendor in the Grass and Gypsy as a single title along with her last film, Brainstorm. The box set is priced at $59.92 SRP and the single titles all at $19.97 SRP. Here are the details on this collection:

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Directed by Elia Kazan (Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront), and written by William Inge (Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic) Splendor in the Grass stars Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty (in his feature film debut) as teenage lovers full of angst and lust, ripped apart by the repressive small-town mentality of 1920s’ Kansas, with dire consequences. The film won an Academy Award^® for Best Original Screenplay, and Ms. Wood received her second Best Actress nomination.

DVD Special Features:

• Beep Prepared (1961 WB cartoon)
• Theatrical trailer

Gypsy (1962)

Everything’s coming up roses when Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden entertain you in the lavish movie musical of the Broadway hit about the infamous stripper, Gypsy Rose Lee and her formidable mother Rose. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Gypsy was nominated for three Oscars^®. The musical score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim is among the most celebrated ever, with such hummable hits as “Let Me Entertain You,” “Everything’s Coming up Roses” and “Together Wherever we Go”

DVD Special Features:

• The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961 WB cartoon)
• Together Wherever We Go (deleted musical)
• You’ll Never Get Away From Me (deleted musical)
• Theatrical trailer

Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

Helen Gurley Brown’s famous book title provides the jumping off point for this romantic comedy about tabloid magazine editor Tony Curtis, who’s after dirt when he pretends to woo a young famous sex researcher played by Wood. Needless to say, he gets more than he came looking for. Supporting roles are played by the Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall.

DVD Special Features:

• Nelly’s Folly (1961WB cartoon)
• Theatrical trailer

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

Daisy Clover (Wood) is a 15-year old tomboy who dreams of being a Hollywood star, and in the vein of “be careful what you wish for,” she finds herself becoming the toast of TInseltown in the 1930s. Daisy is thrust headlong into this strange new life with all the pressure and artifice that goes with the territory and must quickly manage or be driven mad. Christopher Plummer is the studio head who gives her her big chance and Robert Redford plays the man with whom she has a one-day marriage. Film buffs will enjoy seeing the various areas and departments of Warner Bros. Studios, where the film was shot.

DVD Special Features:

• Theatrical trailer

Bombers B-52 (1957)

U.S. Air Force pilot Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) is in love with Lois Brennan (Wood), much to the disapproval of her sergeant father (Karl Malden). There is romance and action in this flight film set against the backdrop of riveting aerial footage of jet plane maneuvers.

DVD Special Features:

· Boyhood Dayz (1957 WB cartoon)

· Theatrical trailer

Cash McCall (1960)

In this drama of high finance and high romance, James Garner (“Maverick,” “The Rockford Files”) plays the title role of a dashing and daring tycoon in the business of buying and selling companies for profit. However McCall’s acquisition plans for Grant Austen’s (Dean Jagger) company gets more complicated when he realizes Austen’s daughter Lory (Wood) is the same girl with whom he once had a summer fling.

DVD Special Features:

· Theatrical trailer

· High Note (1961 WB cartoon)

Brainstorm (1983)

Natalie Wood’s last film is a sci-fi thriller, directed by Douglas Trumbull (Blade Runner). The film tells the story of two brilliant research scientists, Lillian Reynolds (Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and Michael Brace (Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter) who, after inventing a machine that can record sensory experiences, find the application being abused not only for personal reasons but also by the government for their own secret agenda. Eventually the results are devastating. Michael Brace’s estranged wife Karen is played by Ms. Wood.

DVD Special Features:

· Theatrical trailer