Robert Wagner Dying", "The Pink Panther", "Harper", "The Towering Inferno" and many more. Wagner is occasionally drawn into public attention regarding the 1981 death of Natalie Wood with whom he was twice married. An autobiography, "Pieces of My Heart: A Life", written with author Scott Eyman, was published on September 23, 2008. Wagner was born February 10, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of Hazel Alvera (née Boe), a telephone operator, and Robert John Wagner Sr., a traveling salesman who worked for the Ford Motor Company. His paternal grandparents were born in Germany and his maternal grandparents were Norwegian. Wagner
Gypsy (1962 film) Story" is, though, it is equaled and, arguably, surpassed - in a rather different idiom - by another filmed Broadway hit: Mervyn LeRoy’s "Gypsy". Arthur Laurents' book (for) "West Side Story" (adapted for the screen by Ernest Lehman), though largely craftsmanlike, falls short of his libretto for "Gypsy" (scripted on celluloid by Leonard Spigelgass), based on the memoirs of the transatlantic stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The dialogue and situations in "Gypsy" have more wit, bite and emotional range, and the characterizations are more complex. "Variety" noted, "There is a wonderfully funny sequence involving three nails-hard strippers which comes when "Gypsy"