Although their first marriage didn't last very long, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner worked on making sure their second marriage to each other was more successful.

Born:Robert John "R.J." Wagner: February 10, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan.
Natalie Wood aka Natasha Gurdin aka Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko: July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California.

Died:Natalie: On November 29, 1981, at the age of 43, Natalie Wood drowned near Santa Catalina Island. More Info About Natalie's Death

Children:

• Katherine "Katie" Wagner: Born in 1964. Actress. Her mother is Marion Marshall.

• Natasha Gregson Wagner: Born in 1970. Actress. Her father is Richard Gregson.

• Courtney Brooke Wagner: Born in 1974. Her father is Robert Wagner.
   

1957 Courtship Info:First Wedding on December 28, 1957 Info:

Divorce:
Natalie and Robert divorced in April 1962.
Mart Crowley: "Their marriage did not end because Warren Beatty came along. There were problems between the two of them that they needed help in working them out ... sometimes love is just not enough."
 

Other Marriages:
 

Robert had two other wives:

• Marion Marshall: Robert Married Marion in 1963. They divorced in 1971.

• Jill St. John: Jill and Robert were married in 1990.
   

Natalie had one other marriage:

• Richard Gregson: Natalie and Richard were married in 1969. They divorced in 1972.

• Natalie first saw R.J. on the Fox Studio set when she was eleven years old and she told her mother she wanted to marry him when she grew up. They began dating in 1957 when she was 18 and he was 27.

• "He proposed the next year [December 6, 1957] by slipping a huge, freshwater pearl and diamond ring into her champagne glass at Romanoff's restaurant. They married on December 28, 1957 in a formal, private ceremony in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Wagner's parents lived. They honeymooned with a train trip and then a week spent on R.J.'s boat, My Lady, off the coast of Catalina Island."
  Source: Marti Rulli, Dennis Davern. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour. 2009. pg. 59.

 

 
 

Portrait of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner posing with their wedding party in front of an altar. From left to right, Lana Lisa (Wood's sister), Barbara Gould, an unidentified man, Wood and Wagner.
 
In February 1972, Robert and Natalie reconciled. They spent several months getting to know one another again before they announced they were getting married again.
Natalie: "I think we [R.J. and Natalie] realized there was still something between us."
Source: Suzanne Finstad. Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood. 2002. pg. 330.
R.J.: "It was an instant reaction. We started going out again ... mostly out in Palm Springs, before anybody knew it. We fell in love all over again."
 

 

Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood stand outdoors at Burbank Airport following a weekend in San Francisco, California in April 1972.
 

 

Robert Wagner with his actress wife Natalie Wood at the time of their second marriage.
Dressed in a gingham dress aboard The Ramblin' Rose, a borrowed yacht that was moored at Malibu in Paradise Cove, Natalie married Robert Wagner again on July 16, 1972.
The wedding date for their second marriage was chosen with the guidance of astrologer Carroll Righter. They only had a few friends and family in attendance. The wedding reception was a picnic.
 

Natalie: At the age of 43, Natalie Wood drowned near Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981. Her husband Robert Wagner and friend Christopher Walken were on their 60-foot yachtSplendour when she drowned. Her death was determined at the time to have been an accident.
Ted Thackrey Jr: "Los Angeles County lifeguards and sheriff's deputies said Miss Wood, 43, apparently drowned after falling overboard from an inflatable boat that we found beached near the body."
Coroner Thomas T. Norguchi: "It was not a homicide. It was not a suicide. It was an accident."
On November 18, 2011 detectives from Los Angeles County reopened the investigation into Natalie's drowning. In July 2012, TMZ reported "Natalie Wood's death certificate has been changed from 'Accident' to 'Undetermined.'"
In September 2012, CBS News reported finding "audio interviews with the actress’ younger sister, Lana, discussing what she knew of her death."
On January 14, 2013, a 10-page addendum to the 1981 autopsy of Natalie Wood was released. It did not alter the sheriff's department ongoing investigation into Wood's death. The new report revealed bruises that "could have occurred before she fell into the ocean."